fontcreator 14 vs fontlab 7 for variable font development

WAY KYI

Just want to know expert opinion on this.
1. Which app is easy to create variable font?
2. Most powerful in term of built-in features for variable fonts?
3. Opentype features still work on variable fonts and which app give better UI for OT features?
Thanks for all your comment

John Hudson

Re. 3: it depends what kind of font you are making and how complex you need the OpenType Layout to be. FontCreator’s OTL tooling is much closer to the GSUB and GPOS table level than the AFDKO code used in FL7 (and in a bunch of other tools), so I consider it superior. If you are making complex script fonts and need to be able to do any contextual GPOS work, then consider FontCreator.

Note that is a general comment re. OTL support. I have not tried using FontCreator to make variable fonts, so cannot comment on the best choice for 1 and 2. I do like FL7’s variable font tools.

WAY KYI

Thank you for your insightful information.

Erwin Denissen

This tutorial should get you started:

https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/how-to-make-a-variable-font

WAY KYI

Erwin Denissen said:

This tutorial should get you started:

https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/how-to-make-a-variable-font

Thank you for your info.