![]() It came free with the FreeHand Graphics Studio first released in 1995-and everyone probably used it. The majority of designers working in the mid-1990s had a copy of Fontographer. “Fontographer is an application which appeals to experienced graphics designers with a background in PostScript illustration-especially those with FreeHand experience from version 7 and earlier. Nook version $9.95 To quote from the book: Nor Eddine Bahha/Morocco, Jazz pianist, author and font designer After nearly a decade in FontLab, font design is fun again. It has been a real joy to experience that again. Fontographer is a wonderful drawing experience. It still works the way I have learned to work over the past two decades of digital graphic design. The drawing interface is still clean, clear, and elegant. ![]() It is still the same marvelous program with which I first learned to design fonts. There are still a few features of FontLab that, as a professional font designer, I cannot do without. Don’t get me wrong, FontLab is a great program and I am grateful for what I have learned. I had just spent nine years painfully teaching myself to letterspace by hand, to write OpenType features, and to become accustomed to the tool set of FontLab. When I received the opportunity to go back to my roots, and see what the new Fontographer was like, I was a little concerned. Why do you want to use Fontographer? For the fun of it!
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