TypeTool for Mac

If you're a professional Graphic Designer or design specialist, then creating fonts may be an important part of your job. TypeTool is a powerful font editor that can open and edit fonts with up to 65,000 characters, including TrueType, Type 1, and TrueType-based OpenType fonts. It supports both TrueType and OpenType fonts, making it versatile for various font types.

TypeTool has support for 12 encodings and 150 code pages, making it suitable for those in desktop publishing or typography. It has recently been revamped to include 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, screen quality auto-hinting, improved printouts, and much more. These features make it an ideal tool for professionals in the field.

TypeTool allows you to create new fonts, modify existing fonts, and open any type of font installed on your system. It is based on FontLab Studio, a professional font editor used by numerous font foundries worldwide. It is especially useful for creating logos, signatures, punctuation, international characters, and many more typographical instances.

While TypeTool is a highly professional tool, it is somewhat let down by its interface, which doesn't really suit OS X 10.6 orHowever, for professionals, this is of little concern considering the power and functionality that TypeTool provides. Overall, TypeTool is everything that a professional graphic designer or typography specialist needs to design and create fonts.