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Microsoft Typography

Internal tools developed at Microsoft for manipulating and creating OpenType and TrueType font... subtitle

Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Typography

FontForge BirdFont Inkscape Glyphs TruFont

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Typography are FontForge, BirdFont, and Inkscape. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software

  2. Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, OTF, EOT and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software 13 social mentions

  3. Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 482 social mentions

  4. 4
    Make everything from dingbat webfonts to full-fledged text typefaces in the most Mac-like font...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software 18 social mentions

  5. TruFont is a font-editing application written with Python3, ufoLib, defcon and PyQt5.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Design Tools #Image Marketplace #Graphic Design Software 2 social mentions

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