Hiya, I’m new to the boards and just have a couple of questions pertaining to the Home edition.
I’m not a designer by trade and I have no formal training but I do a small amount of graphic design on the side aimed at the ‘vintage’ scene in exchange for pennies, goods, favours or anything else that comes to mind. I have a very limited knowledge of digital fonts but I believe I have a good eye for good letterforms.
I have recently been drawing a few fonts inspired by and in some cases, almost identical to, typefaces found in old lettering and specimen books. I’ve been doing this in Adobe Illustrator and now I want to convert them to working fonts so I’m looking for an entry level font editor to achieve this. I don’t need bells and whistles, just something I can drag my vetor shapes into, tweak the kerning etc and make into a font file.
At some point I would like to be able to sell these fonts via an appropriate third party but I would not be be able to do this with your Home edition. What is the reasoning behind this? I am not a professional, simply a hobbyist. I presume I wouldn’t be able to use fonts created by your Home edition in any printed or web material that I sold to clients, eg. flyers, banners etc. I don’t see any restrictions at Fontlab’s TypeTool and, as I’m not really familiar with the more technial specifications of either, this is pretty much a deal breaker for me.
I’m sorry but we have thought about this a lot, and for now we have no plan to change our license model.
You can start with the home edition, and decide to upgrade later if you start selling your fonts. But given the fact you intend to make fonts for commercial use, I highly recommend the professional edition simply because it contains advanced tools that speed up your font development. You will probably make more (and sooner) money this way.
Thanks for the prompt reply. I still don’t understand the reasoning or the logic bhind the restrictions.
Having looked at all of the free and reasonably priced font editors I’ll have to go with Type Tool as it seems to be the only one I can drage AI vectors into, install on Windows and use commercially if the need arises. I hope you see this as constructive criticism.
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Yes, if it looks like the same address but with a typo I would be grateful if you could change it to the one I used to register on the forum as soon as you’re able, thanks.
I’d like to spend the weekend getting to know the software.
I wouldn’t get too worried just yet. Its Sunday, and even programmers need a rest sometimes.
I don’t think you will regret purchasing FontCreator. It may be more than you really need, but from the little I have used the trial version of TypeTool, FontCreator is a lot easier to use. Vector Import is very slick. Transform commands allow the repositioning and resizing of all imported glyphs with one batch script.
