Fontographer by Macromedia is a simple
to use but complex to master drawing tool that specializes in creating
and editing fonts. By utilizing a palette of shapes, freehand drawing,
stretch and skew functions, bezier curves and other tools the user can
make logos and custom fonts. Logos and custom letters can be created
and associated to corresponding characters, keystrokes, or unicode.
Fonts can be exported for use in multimedia applications.
In Multimedia productions, custom fonts can be used as a shortcut for applying custom logos to a project or for giving a project a special look and feel with a font that enhances the message.
The market price for Fontographer is $313.99
Below is an example of what Fontographer can do.
Arial Font was imported into Fontographer and the letter "C" was chosen for customizing
| In Fontographer's Point View, this is how an Arial C appears: | |
| Bezier curve feature was used to add style to the Arial C | |
| Point stretching and more curve modification was used to add more style to the Arial C | |
| This is how the customized C looks in Fontographer Preview Mode, and reduced to an approximately font size of 14 | |