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Design & edit OpenType, variable, web & color fonts

FontLab 8 is an integrated font editor for Mac and Windows that helps you create fonts from start to finish, from a simple design to a complex project, and brings a spark of magic into type design. Try FontLab 8 for free for 10 days, and start making fonts today!

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WHAT TYPEFACE DESIGNERS SAY

“amazing and innovative”
Eduardo Tunni

“worthy of a master”
Vassil Kateliev

“best drawing tools”
FÁBIO DUARTE MARTINS

“more advanced than the competition”
Tobias Kvant

“wonderful, very addictive”
Yves Michel

“excels in new features and innovations”
Robert Strauch & Alexander Haberer

“without FontLab,
I could do just about nothing”

Dave Lawrence

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Create. Develop. Complete. Deliver.

Make world-class

fonts with FontLab 8

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Turn letters into art

Express your imagination, prototype and experiment. Draft glyphs with bitmap autotracing and live calligraphic strokes.

Draw and edit beautiful, smooth, consistent glyphs in fractional or integer precision, with the help of intelligent snapping and live numeric and visual measurements.

Refine your drawings: create overlaps, simplify paths, equalize stems. Scale while keeping stroke thickness, globally adjust weight and width, find & fix imperfections.

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Make words look good

Build and assemble glyphs from variable components or from self-adjusting segment or corner skins. Add accented glyphs with a simple double-click.

Space and kern in multi-line tabs or windows that feel like a text editor.

Add typographic smartness like ligatures, small caps, old-style numerals with automatically-generated OpenType features, and test them in the integrated state-of-the-art complex-script text engine.

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Give text a voice

Explore new directions with color and variation. Extend and complete any font in FontLab, or in mix with other font editors.

Create, open, extend, test and export font families, variable OpenType fonts, color fonts and web fonts for any Unicode writing system.

Interchange with other font editing apps like FontForge, RoboFont or Glyphs. Supercharge your workflow with powerful add-ins and Python 3 scripts.

Pro 8.8.36.0 ~upd~ | Sketchbook

: You can import a high-resolution image of actual paper (like watercolor paper or parchment) as a separate layer. Set the layer blending mode to Multiply or Overlay to let the texture interact with your drawing. Optimizing Canvas Settings

To understand the importance of , you must understand the timeline. Originally developed by Autodesk, Sketchbook Pro gained fame for its exceptionally clean interface, lag-free engine, and focus purely on drawing.

For everyone else, the free modern version of Sketchbook offers a taste, but the full, unrestricted power of the application lives on in this legendary build number.

Version 8.8.36.0 arrived at a critical juncture. It was one of the final stable builds released by Autodesk before the software was transitioned to Sketchbook, Inc. This version represents the "peak" of the Autodesk development cycle. It contains the full suite of professional features that were locked behind a paywall, but it exists in a timeline just before the major restructuring that eventually made the software free for everyone.

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Works on macOS 26 Tahoe (Intel and Apple Silicon) or older, including 10.15 Catalina.
Works on 64-bit versions of Windows 11 or later, Windows 10, and Windows 8.1. Limited functionality on Windows 7.
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: You can import a high-resolution image of actual paper (like watercolor paper or parchment) as a separate layer. Set the layer blending mode to Multiply or Overlay to let the texture interact with your drawing. Optimizing Canvas Settings

To understand the importance of , you must understand the timeline. Originally developed by Autodesk, Sketchbook Pro gained fame for its exceptionally clean interface, lag-free engine, and focus purely on drawing.

For everyone else, the free modern version of Sketchbook offers a taste, but the full, unrestricted power of the application lives on in this legendary build number.

Version 8.8.36.0 arrived at a critical juncture. It was one of the final stable builds released by Autodesk before the software was transitioned to Sketchbook, Inc. This version represents the "peak" of the Autodesk development cycle. It contains the full suite of professional features that were locked behind a paywall, but it exists in a timeline just before the major restructuring that eventually made the software free for everyone.

Made with FontLab

From fresh ideas

to ideal fonts

Designers and foundries have used FontLab to create fonts in all flavors and for various world scripts. Check out some of the highlights below, and visit our Testimonials to read what designers say about the newest FontLab!

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Variable font families like Graduate (Eduardo Tunni), Science Gothic (Thomas Phinney & team), Grand Gothik (Parachute), Circe Slab, Fact (ParaType), Bolyar Sans (Fontmaker), Lato (Łukasz Dziedzic).

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Ambitious historical revivals like CAL Bodoni by (California Type Foundry).

One-offs like Wanchy (Matthijs Herzberg) or Optician Sans (Scannerlicker & ANTI Hamar).

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Massive icon fonts like Material Symbols (Google).

Color fonts like the titling font for the Joker movie by Chad Danieley.

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Student 1-year
$109
Buy if you’re an academic student, use for any purpose for 365 days. Upgradable to lifetime.
Student / teacher lifetime
$335
Buy if you’re an academic student, teacher or institution, use forever for any purpose. Discounts on future upgrades.
Course 4-months
$249
Buy as teacher / school for 20 students, who can use it for 4 months.
Workshop 2-weeks
$99
Buy as workshop organizer for 20 participants, who can use it for 14 days.

Starter

3-months license
US$ 97
Mac & Windows
1 user, 3 computers
Buy once
No recurring fees
Use for 97 days
Full functionality
Can buy again when expires
No extra plugins required
Regular feature updates
Expert support

Pro

Lifetime license
US$499
Mac & Windows
1 user, 3 computers
Buy once
No recurring fees
Full functionality forever
Discounts on future upgrades
Volume discount available
No extra plugins required
Regular feature updates
Expert support

Upgrade

If you own another font editor, get a lifetime license at a discount
FontLab 7
$149
Click the price, then enter your FL70 serial as Coupon Code & click Apply. Free if bought after 20 April 2022.
FontLab VI
$299
FontLab Studio 5
$299
Fontographer 5
$399
TypeTool 3
$459
RoboFont
$459
Glyphs
$459

Your final price will include applicable tax. Pre-sales questions? Multi-user upgrades? Different payment methods? Contact Sales. We also sell through regional distributors. FontLab 8.4 works on macOS 10.15–26 Tahoe (natively on Intel and Apple Silicon) and on Windows 8.1–11.