fontcreator 14 vs fontlab 7 for variable font development

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• John Hudson Posts: 2,406

  March 27

  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.

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• WAY KYI Posts: 93

  March 27

  Thank you for your insightful information.
  

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• Erwin Denissen Posts: 265

  April 1

  This tutorial should get you started:

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

  
  

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• WAY KYI Posts: 93

  April 1

  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.

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