Vexy Vextra — FontLab contour editing in Adobe Illustrator
Vexy Vextra adds the contour tools type designers have had for years and Illustrator somehow never got.


An ideal tool for lettering.
Merge Delete, Tunni lines, Genius (G2-smooth) and tangent nodes, auto-measurement, Slide, Nudge and Power Nudge, Make Overlaps, Loops, Smart Corners — everything you use every day in your favorite font tool — now works in Illustrator.
Actually Good Autotracer comes as a bonus.
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Very impressive! This can be a great way to introduce students to type design software, when they come from Illustrator.
Is "Actually Good Autotracer" the real name? I love it.0 -
Vexy Vextra for Figma is coming soon, with all the same features:

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