Font Forum

When I export font projects to either TrueType or OpenType formats, the filename gets the OTF extension regardless. I'm not sure if this rises to the level of a bug (the font seems to work OK regardless), but it's an unexpected behavior.

You might have to create a new "dummy" font and paste all the glyphs into it.

The "smoothing" menu starts blank with each new font; an option for saving a default set of values would come in handy.

That helps once the font has the "Bold" subfamily name, but getting to that point has to be done the more complex way (setting each of the info flags for a "bold" font) manually, which is more error-prone (I've stumbled the first few times, getting a font that looks bold but show...

In general, you probably want to make an extra backup copy of the file before doing something you can't undo. (Actually, an option to create a pre-transform backup copy of the file might be a good option to add to the "This operation cannot be undone - Are you sure you want to do this?" sc...

After experimenting with FontCreator for a while, two ideas: 1. A one-click option that would set all the naming data (family and subfamily names, Windows and Mac types, Pantone types) for each of the four basic varieties (Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic). I had to go through quite a bit of fumbli...