SALE: up to 65% 🆕 FontLab 8.4 đŸ”„ Upgrades for users of most font editors

Adam Twardoch
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edited September 4 in Type Design Software

Special discount: introducing FontLab 8.4

Save up to 65% with coupon code 8TTF24TD

Visit fontlab.com/buy and enter 8TTF24TD as Coupon Code at the bottom of the page. Then click Apply to see the discounted prices! (If you’re upgrading from FontLab 7, enter your FL70 serial number instead.)

FontLab 8 is a full-featured font editor that truly works everywhere. It runs with native Intel & Apple Silicon speed on macOS 10.15–15 Sequoia, works on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 8.1–11, and it even runs on Linux with Wine! 

New FontLab 8.4 has 500 improvements over FontLab 8.0, 900 improvements over FontLab 7, and 1,600 improvements over FontLab VI — this includes fast scaling of selections to same width or height, better context menus & smarter Help, automatic OpenType features on export, visually editable variable components, support for Unicode Variation Selector sequences (UVS) for better CJK and emoji, and a 100 more improvements.

Accessible knowledge

FontLab’s innovative Quick Help system tells you everything about its user interface right in-place: just hover over any UI element and hold F1 to see an in-depth description. And the FontLab.tv YouTube channel has over 400 video tutorials to help you learn FontLab 8, and curated collection of over 2,000 videos on multilingual type design, typography, font technology and script knowledge.

Ample batteries included

FontLab is a professional typeface design workbench, from head to toes. It includes all the tools you need to design, edit, analyze, convert, and publish fonts:


  • Font window with flexible color flagging, tagging and filtering by script, layer and various properties
  • multi-line Glyph window for focused editing of single glyphs, or simultaneous editing of multiple glyphs or multiple masters at the same time
  • unlimited variable axes and masters, with fluid, instant preview of traditional and HOI interpolation
  • automatic matching of masters so that they’re interpolation-compatible
  • precise drawing with the traditional Pen tool, easy drawing with the innovative Rapid tool, or tablet drawing with smooth Pencil 
  • intuitive editing of PostScript and TrueType curves in integer or fractional precision, with high-precision Lever dragging, live supersmooth Genius nodes, live rounded corners and ink traps

  • superb automatic measuring of distances and stem thicknesses, measuring guides, curvature visualization, snapping suggestions for nodes, continuation lines, stem thicknesses or distances, and customizable stem equalization
  • built-in autotracing, and solid EPS and PDF copy-paste interchange of contours with other apps

  • visual skeleton-based prototyping, with calligraphic Power Brush and visually modulated Power Stroke
  • refined spacing with control by numbers, mouse or keyboard, with built-in editable word lists, simple auto-spacing and sophisticated metric expressions language
  • comfortable left-to-right and right-to-left kerning by numbers, mouse or keyboard, with editable phrases lists, and simple auto-kerning

  • powerful composite glyph construction with built-in RoboFont-compatible text recipes, anchored and non-spacing components, and visually-adjustable smart variable components
  • assembling glyphs from automatically-snapping segment, dash, corner and cap components, plus Fusion for live non-destructive Boolean pathfinding

  • comfortable, extensive support for variation, complex scripts, and color
  • batch Actions and powerful Python 3 scripting

Industry-standard foundations

FontLab 8.4 is built on the superfast FontLab technology core, and on industry-standard solutions:

  • true complex-script OpenType features shaping using HarfBuzz in the glyph window or Preview panel
  • automatic OpenType feature code generation in FEA syntax, feature compilation using the AFDKO library, feature definition import from and export to Microsoft VOLT
  • actual Windows rendering preview even on the Mac (without any need for virtualization) with the built-in genuine Microsoft ClearType rasterizer
  • FontLab’s own visual TrueType Hinting and ttfautohint
  • built-in TrueType tables editor using the fontTools TTX format
  • first-rate reading and writing of FontLab’s own .vfj, .vfc and .vfb formats, of .designspace+.ufo projects, of the .glyphs and .glyphspackage formats, plus reading of FontForge .sfd, bitmap .bdf, Fontographer .fog
  • opening and export of all OpenType font formats, including variable (glyf and CFF2), web (.woff2, .woff, .eot) and color (COLR v0&1, SVG, CDBT, sbix)

Extend your toolkit

Type design tools like FontLab, RoboFont and Glyphs play together well, thanks to human-readable, documented interchange formats. Extend your toolkit, and use the most efficient tool for a given task.

The special FontLab 8.4 discount with the 8TTF24TD coupon is available for limited time only. Give it a try!


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