FontForge

In the eventuality that you are a creative professional, then there is a chance that the thought of enhancing the typography has crossed your mind for certain projects. FontForge is a lightweight program that bundles a wide range of advanced options for creating and editing font types and can be a great tool for anyone looking to personalize fonts, especially the ones with some background in such apps.

While the setup is a straightforward and uneventful operation, one nuisance is that you need to have a font file readily available to access the application. You can use the file browser to locate and open a font type from the hard drive, but this can be a deal breaker if you are simply interested in creating a new font.

Nevertheless, you can create new fonts, an operation that entails drawing each glyph until you form a complete alphabet, number system and symbols. The good news is that the program puts several drawing tools at your disposal, such as curve points, distance measurement, hand scrolling and magnification. Not to mention that you can manage multiple layers (e.g. background, foreground).

Although it may not be the friendliest tool out there if you want to create new fonts, it is truly remarkable when it comes to editing other fonts. To put it simply, every element related to fonts can be edited, including the PS name, size, Unicode ranges, so on and so forth.

It is worth mentioning that the app comes with a search function that enables you to search for any feature available within the app by color, wildcard, script, transform layers, unlink references, merge fonts, enable auto hints, execute the script, generate a Mac family, as well as edit resources, just to name a few.

FontForge provides you with the required tools for creating and editing font types, as long as they are patient enough to comprehend them. Keep in mind that the program may appear quite complicated and rough, especially if you didn't use similar apps before. In fact, one downside would be the seemingly cluttered interface and numerous advanced settings make this program pretty hard to learn, even with the included help manual.