week 2- angeline, gayetheri

Font Creator Home Edition 5.0

-it’s a powerful software that enables an average PC user to select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology.

-has the ability to convert scaned images to outlines,enabling user to create fonts with your own signature logo and style.Also helps you to avoid common mistakes

-it also includes the ability to add the selected character sets with their mappings ,to calculate ascender and decender values and to show comparison glyphs in the

glyph edit window.This feature can complete thousnads of characters within few seconds.

Sib Font Editor 2.0

- this software is used to design quality bitmap fonts and serves it’s purpose well for graphic designers and beginers as well.It is easy to use and intuitive mouse based controls comes with a good sum of powerful features.

-this software supports two formats of bitmap fonts .fon and .fnt. this tool allows you to adjust all properties of a font like name, copyright ,width and height and much more.

-it also comes with a set of features to make the designing process to go smoothly. there’svarious tools that can be used such as flip effects and copy and paste operations.

week 2- sim pin,alvin,canaan

There are many font design software packages which are commonly used nowadays. One of the popular font design software is Font Creator. The latest version of this software is Font Creator Home Edition 5.0.

Font Creator Home Edition 5.0 is a powerful application that puts font creation within the grasp of the average. This is suitable for the PC user, graphic designers, and typographers. This software gives you all the tools you need to make new fonts and edit existing fonts. Users can make their own handwriting font or add signatures, logos, and symbols to existing fonts.

MainType is one of the function in Font Creator Home Edition 5.0. It is the only drag and drop font manager. It offers a straightforward and easy-to-use interface to help you find, preview, organize, install, and print the fonts. MainType can also helps the users in saving time because it is the fastest and easiest way to maintain the fonts.

Another functions in this software are useful too. For example, the editor allows users easily to select and modify the entire charavter set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology. This function includes the ability to convert images to outlines. Thus, it enable users to create fonts with their own signature, logo, and handwriting.

Few of new contour operations are provided, like union, intersection, exclusion, and knife. These operations greatly simplify and speed up the design process. Besides, other new features include the ablility to add selected characters or entire character sets with their mappings. It is used to automically calculate ascender and decender values and to show comparison glyphs in the glyph edit window also. This feature can complete over a thousand characters in a few seconds.

Font Creator Home Edition 5.0 is popular nowadays. The advanced validation features make the design process easy and help you avoid common mistakes. Font Creator provided the tools for the users. For those who wants to create and distribute royalty-free fonts, a designer who needs a unique font, a business person who needs to add a euro sign, logo, or signature to an existing font, or a home user who wants to make a font based on their own handwriting.

week 2 -sarah,sam,daniel

Font choices these days have become so overused and limited. Why settle for boring fonts when you can design and add your own flavor into a font? Font software packages have been made available so that you can simply play around with a font or create a completely new font designs from scratch.

To start of with the basic editing software, the Type Tool software could be the one. With this, creating new fonts or modifying existing fonts can be made easier with features such as font info, which is a dialog that gives access to various font properties such as menu and family names, supported codepages or line spacing metrics. The edit outline glyphs also uses more than intuitive 20 tools compared to other software. By its feature of the Open Type font with up to 65, 000 glyphs, students, hobby typographers and creative professionals can now find an alternative to make font designing easier.

A slightly more advanced font editing software that is popularly used by most font designers these days is the latest font editor, Fontographer. This software is commonly used because of its user friendliness and for that, it wouldn’t be a problem for beginners despite of its advancement. Some software take a very long time to render, but worry no more because Fontographer features real-time rendering. It lets you design, edit, and manipulate fonts in a variety of editing windows. You can even specify, view and print because of its typographical precision, which includes snap-to-guides and snap-to-points. This software package is highly rated and recommended by top software critiques.

Then there is the AsiaFont Studio editing software. This software is a two-byte font editor. With it, you can create Japanese and various Chinese fonts, and other multilingual Uni-code OpenType based fonts as well. This software allows you to work up till 65,000+ glyphs and it has access to 100,000+ Unicode characters. With features such as Vector Paint tools, it allows you to quickly and easily draw out new characters and import up to 64,000 characters. This software has been programmed to work best with any Microsoft Windows computers, thus being flexible on the job and whenever its needed.

These are just three out of many fonts editing software that is available in the market. As you know, fonts make all the difference in giving any publication the right feel. There’s nothing like a great font to capture the reader’s attention and excite them the way you want to. These software programs are created to do exactly that. They open doors to creating and painting out a brilliant world of fonts of your own.

week 2 -eric,rana,chum yeap

TypeTool is our basic font editor for Mac OS and for Windows. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who occasionally need to create or customize fonts. It's released in March 2007 includes support for OpenType fonts with up to 65,000 glyphs, Unicode 5.0 support, new bitmap Background and outline Mask layers, improved Bézier drawing with open contours and tangent points, multi-line metrics and kerning editing, superb screen quality autohinting, better printouts, and much more. Create new fonts or modify existing fonts, open any fonts installed on your system. Open and generate PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.
Professional-quality fonts and industry-standard font technology: the engine of TypeTool is based on FontLab Studio, the professional font editor used by numerous font foundries worldwide.

Design logos, signatures, ligatures, old-style figures, fractions, currency symbols, punctuation or international characters to your fonts.Make your own text fonts as well as dingbat or clipart fonts.Easy-to-use intuitive user interface with high-quality smooth glyph display.Edit outline glyphs using more than intuitive 20 tools. Industry-standard Bézier drawing tools familiar to users of Fontographer, Adobe Illustrator or Freehand. VectorPaint tools for realistic bitmap-like outline editing using shaped brush strokes. Precise glyph measurement with the Meter mode ruler.

Place reference outlines into the Mask layer .Lock any layer to prevent accidental modification of outline or metrics. Metrics and Kerning window for automatic or manual spacing and kerning with multi-line preview, right-to-left support and AFM/PFM metric import/export. Import and export individual glyphs in EPS format, copy-paste exchange with Adobe Illustrator.

Font Info dialog gives you access to various font properties such as menu and family names, supported codepages or linespacing metrics. Rearrange, rename or re-encode glyphs using two encoding modes with an unlimited number of encoding tables and codepages. Compatible with the entire codepoint range of the Unicode Standard 5.0, including double-byte (BMP) and four-byte non-BMP codepoints beyond U+FFFF .

Easy navigation in large multilingual or Asian fonts with the Font Map panel. Excellent screen quality for all generated fonts due to automatic Type 1 and TrueType hinting with Flex Type 1 hint support. Minimal modifications possible: preserve the original screen hinting and the original OpenType Layout tables as long as glyphs are not modified by the user .Versatile sample and preview printing of fonts and individual glyphs.Redesigned preferences; save, open and exchange preference profiles.Uses VFB file format compatible with FontLab Studio, BitFonter 3, ScanFont and TransType.

week 2- adriel,nicole,amanda

There are many font design softwares out there on the market. Each and everyone does basically the same thing- it designs fonts. The difference is the features that are given to users. Some may give only basic requirements while others may equip users with more freedom and power in designing and even editing fonts as they like. Here are some of the softwares that are out there on the web:

FontTwister 1.2 is a Font Software product from neuber.com. FontTwister is perhaps the fastest and easiest way to create dazzling text effects. FontTwister comes with an impressive selection of templates for graphic styles, color gradients, textures, shapes, letter edges, 3-D bevels, shadows, buttons and frames. Simple intuitive controls let you interactively real-time view and select your desired effect while you can reedit text and effects at any time. The effect generator creates unlimited variations of amazing text effects. You are able to use high impact, anti-aliased text for logos, 2D and 3D headings in letters, presentations, flyers, invitations, cards, faxes, posters, web graphics, labels, banners, buttons, covers.

My fonts 3.01 is another font design software from mytools.com. This software allows you the freedom of color printing font specimen sheets and it even has support for large-screen monitors. Another plus of this software is that it allows users to preview fonts, even those that are not installed into their computers as well as being able to install or uninstall fonts individually or in 'Fontpacks'. In addition to that it also supports TrueType and Postscript fonts along with printing pro-quality specimen sheets.
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One other software would be that of CrossFont 5.0 which is a Font Software product from asy.com. The software provides feature such added font preview ability to font info window; a new password systems that enables better security; it also supports Vista; and there is the option of recreating input parent folder on output. For example, CrossFont enables you to convert TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts between Windows PC and Macintosh platforms and also convert Type 1 fonts to OpenType. Besides that, CrossFont 5.0 is able to automatically recognize supported fotn types and import compatible fonts from an entire folder.Besides providing features such as mentioned, CrossFont is able to fix bug where unsupported formats were recognized as a supported format; fix bugs where valid font files were not recognizd; and there is the option of saving rewritten to alleviate certain problems.

week 2 assessment

Write a one-page essay summarising popular font design software packages and their features.