Outline Font Designers Page

iSV Products has the largest range of Font Designing software for Risc OS. We have many years experience with fonts and we can now pass this knowledge onto you with our range of Font Designers applications.

Font Designers Toolkit

The complete set of font utilities. Some of the many features are:
  • Automatically make new weights for existing fonts.
  • Produce "Custom" fonts with sliders for width/height/angle etc
  • Complete missing font families automatically in seconds
  • Edit kerning data on any font
  • Add kerning to Risc Os 2 format fonts or swap kerning between fonts
  • Add, remove or modify any kern pairs in any font
  • Store kerning data on disk so OS 3 fonts can be edited in !FontED
  • Quickly produce complete printed catalogues and samples
  • Print out character reference sheets.
  • Tighten or loosen character widths
  • Edit a fonts misc data area, including xheight, descender, capheight...
  • Quickly make mono-spaced fonts
  • Adjust character bounding boxes to prevent re-draw errors
  • Make Oblique, Mirror, SemiBold, Semilight and hundreds more
  • Edit the Outlines of any font
  • Add extra letters & symbols to any font
  • Add scaffolding & hinting to improve a fonts appearance.
  • Globally tighten or loosen any kerning
  • Full on screen WYSIWYG anti-aliased previews

    Comments

  • "Useful bundle of utilities..one for font enthusiasts." Acorn User Mar 95
  • "...very well designed, elegant and good value for money." Archive Mar 95
  • "A fine set of font utilities..well designed...very useful." - Arc World
  • "...the Toolkit will prove its worth...a good buy." Risc User Apr 95
  • "...excellent..." Mr B. Poland
  • "...the answer to my problems.." Mr O. Devon
  • "...FontKern is great...the help files are excellent." - Mr W. Wales
    •  Download a demo copy of FDTK (132K)

    FontTrix PRO

    Font Trix PRO offers all the ease of use of FontTrix (part of the font designers toolkit) with a number of advantages.
  • Makes "real" fonts that can be loaded into !FontED
  • Auto adjusts kern pairs in any new fonts
  • Save new styles for later use
  • Auto adjusts all scaffolds and skeletons in any new fonts
  • Can repair damaged fonts, eg "Invalid Linear link"
  • NEW transformation editor, make styles that include mathematical formulae
  • Fine tune you new fonts before making them.
  • Make inverted, rotated and loads of other "special fx" fonts
  • Anti-aliased on screen previews
  • Loads Risc OS2, Risc OS3 & Base0
  • Complete missing font families easily and quickly.

    Comments

  • "...a serious tool...the best program of it's kind..." Richard Hallas Risc User October 1995
    • Download some FontTrixPRO samples (175K)

    The FontFiend £150.00

    After 4 years work iSV Products is finally ready to release FontFiend. FontFiend is the intelligent font designer. FontFiend can make fonts with Latin 1,2,3 or 4 character sets. Automatically make accented letters and symbols in your font. Worried about the “black arts” of hinting a font. FontFiend can do this for you automatically. FontFiend can also repair damaged fonts that won’t load into FontED as well as loading many fonts that FontED cannot cope with. Supplied with a comprehensive printed manual and full on-line help FontFiend is the professional font designer. Requires RiscPC with 8Mb of RAM FontFiend is the font editor the Acorn community has been waiting for. Some of its hundreds of features include.
  • A ring bound 100+ page fully illustrated manual with examples and tutorial sections.
  • Supports interactive help.
  • Full time context sensitive on-line help system on the FontFiend button bar. This can be disabled if the user wishes.
  • Loads Risc OS 2, Risc OS 3 and Base 0 Acorn outline fonts.
  • Saves out in Risc OS 2 or Risc Os 3 format, Risc OS 3 fonts can include kerning and misc data areas.
  • Can also load Kerning files, AFM files, Skeletons, Scaffolds & Composites from other fonts.
  • Can import & export draw files and incorporate them in existing or new fonts.
  • Automatic character builder. FontFiend can make accented letters, daggers, brackets & a number of symbols automatically.
  • Automatic scaffold models including Serif & SansSerif.
  • Encoding based, so FontFiend can handle Latin 1,2,3 & 4 fonts as well as custom encoding files.
  • Automatic skeleton routines.
  • Intelligent routines that understand fonts and are able to draw new characters in the style/weight of the existing font.
  • Accent auto-centering system so that FontFiend can automatically add accents to oblique/italic fonts.
  • Transformation system to make new weights from existing fonts. When transforming FontFiend will also shift composite characters, correct accents, move scaffolds & skeletons as well as disconnecting any scaffolds that are no longer valid.
  • Edit a fonts misc data area including underline position and thickness.
  • Real time dragging of composites using the mouse.
  • Offers the same main table features as FontED including copy characters, insert composites and copy scaffolds..
  • Can hint a font in under 20 seconds, including producing a proper scaffold tree.
  • Automatic scaffolding systems allows both global scaffolds and linear linking to improve quality.
  • Can repair damaged fonts that will not work or load into FontED.
  • Can load fonts that FontED cannot. For example fonts with “Cyclic Scaffold Link” errors.
  • Save out Kerning, Scaffolds or Skeletons & reuse them on another font. Loaded files are automatically scaled to fit the font being edited.
  • Can convert Base 0 fonts to any latin encoding.
  • Display both outline and filled versions of characters.
  • Can save out protected fonts that cannot be examined by a user.
  • Convert composite characters to real outlines and skeletons.
  • Full manual and automatic scaffolding control.
  • Can delete defective scaffolds or skeletons.
  • Includes special filters to clean excess control points, grid lock characters e.t.c.
  • Flip characters either horizontally or vertically.

    Comments

  • "It's EXCELLENT!" Kevin Simpson a trained typographer
  • "...an excellent piece of software...a must for anyone at all interested in font design." Toby Richards Dalmation

    • This is only a small list of the hundreds of features offered by FontFiend. iSV Products will be continuing to develop FontFiend. Upgrade plug-ins will be available to add further features. For example to export PostScript outline fonts.
    Download a FontFiend demo version
    Why not take a look at the enthusiasts version of FontFiend called Dr Fonty?
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    iSV Products 86 Turnberry, Home Farm, Bracknell, Berks, RG12 8ZH.
    TEL 01344 455769 email - atimbrell@aol.com.
    All quoted prices are for single user versions and exclude carriage