Type 3.2

your innovative font editor

You're an artist, techie, or indie type designer - or maybe a hobbyist. You're looking for an easy-to-use, yet comprehensive font editor.

Try free demo for Windows and Mac
Full professional license now $15*

* New low price as of 2024 (no longer in development)

Feature list

Formats supported
Open and save: TrueType (.ttf), OpenType PS (.otf), Type 3.2 glyph data (.gfs)
Open only: TrueType collection (.ttc)
Transfer glyphs from: All of above, plus Type 1 (.pfa, .pfb), Mac TrueType (.dfont)

Editing
Edit all font metrics, meta-data and names. Easy font renaming tool.
Up to 65535 glyphs. Copy, duplicate and rename glyphs. Edit glyph metrics.
Nodes/control points or TrueType points editing.
Copy, paste, undo, redo, grid, snap-to-grid.

Drawing Tools
Standard bezier drawing tools, freehand draw, knife, ruler, star, polygon, rectangle, ellipse, rotate, skew, stretch, stroke, touch-up tools, remove overlap.

Glyph Validation
Detect common glyph errors and potential issues. Auto-repair option for most problems detected.

Variable fonts (NEW!)
Create and edit variable TrueType fonts.

Graphics
Import vector graphics from Illustrator/Inkscape etc (.svg). Interactive autotrace.
Insert background images for manual tracing (.jpg, .gif, .png etc)

Preview options
Real-time glyph preview (single glyph or sample text).
Full font preview (all glyphs or paragraph view).

Hinting
Gasp hinting. Global PostScript hinting (.otf fonts).

Colour fonts
Create and convert between colour font formats (Microsoft Layer, Apple and SVG). Embed and extract SVG and png graphics from SVG and Apple colour fonts.
Full-font colour preview of supported colour fonts.

Kerning
Add kerning pairs. Add all standard kerning pairs. Save and load kerning pairs.
Adjust kerning pairs visually with 'grab-and-drag'.

OpenType features
Insert preset OpenType features (Standard ligatures, OpenType kerning, Ordinals, Swash, Small capitals, Slashed zero). Create your own OpenType features.

Composite glyph creation
Auto-create all Latin accented characters.
User definable composite glyph creation (Greek extended as an example).

Action scripts
Perform operations (eg bolden) on multiple glyphs, or all glyphs, with simple scripts.

Glyph groups
Specify glyph groups: save glyphs, run actions, link group metrics, OpenType classes, class kerning.

License and support
Licensed for commercial use.
Free support via web-form, email or public forum (read-only).

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Purchase

Buy now for Windows for $15 USD:

Buy now for Mac for $15 USD:

You can expect to receive your download link and registration code within one hour.

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Download Demo

Try the fully-functional demo before purchasing.*

Windows 10, 8.1, 7, Vista, XP, 2000
(32/64 bit)
Type3setup.exe [v3.2.051]
Download

Mac OS X 10.7 - 11 Intel (64 bit)
Type32demo.dmg [v3.2.051]
Download

* Only the first 50 characters of a font are saved and an overprint is placed on autotraced graphics.

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32 bit version for older Mac's**:
Mac OS X 10.6-10.14 Intel (32 bit)
Type32demo_32.dmg [v3.2.050]
Download

** As of macOS 10.15 Apple no longer supports 32-bit applications. Please send email after purchasing if you require an additional download link for the full version 32 bit.

Type 3.2 & Type light