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Microsoft Typography

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

Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Typography

Microsoft Typography
FontForge TruFont Glyphs Piskel BirdFont

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Typography are FontForge, TruFont, and Glyphs. 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. 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

  3. 3
    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

  4. 4
    Piskel is a website where designers online create sprites or pixel art.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Art Tools #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 13 social mentions

  5. 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 14 social mentions

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