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(In fairness, Adobe’s FDK for OpenType also has table dumping/recompiling tools, just not quite as slick as TTX.

It can also recompile the text file back into a font. This dumps the font info to an XML text file, which can be viewed/edited in any text editor or anything that can handle XML.

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Here are a couple of screen shots (click on each for full size version):Ĭurrently, if I want a simple and accurate representation of the contents of a TrueType or OpenType font, and possibly to edit the info, I have been using the wondrous open source TTX tool, which is based on the FontTools library. This is an excellent tool for font geeks/developers, but not really appropriate for the average end user of fonts. It has a bit of unobtrusive interface and allows direct editing of various fields. It shows a fairly literal/direct representation of what’s in the various tables and subtables. OTMaster ( OT being short for OpenType), along with its free “Light” version, is a new addition to this suite, and has just shipped.īasically, OTMaster is a tool for cracking open and looking inside OpenType fonts (or plain old Windows TrueType fonts). DTL has a whole suite of tools collectively known as DTL FontMaster. So, my old friend Frank Blokland over at the Dutch Type Library recently asked me to take a look at a new tool they were developing. It has always looked great, but back when I was doing a lot of type design, my main box for doing so was Windows based, and Superpolator is a Mac-only tool, so I never really gave it a fair try. Of course it still needs to be checked by humans, and there can be problems on occasion, but dang….Īside from the Font Remix Tools, another insanely powerful option for working with font development using the power of MM space is Superpolator from Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland, a.k.a. Most of it works insanely well almost all the time. Most of these functions still seem like magic when I see them working.

make even better automatic tabular figures.

generate superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators similarly.

automatically generate small caps with the “right” weight and width (as determined by you, the designer, but with some very clever defaults).

tune the width, height and weight of single letters interactively.

create true condensed and extended versions (again, generally without distortion!)-or add a full “width” axis for infinite variation.

If you start with a font that has master outlines for two different weights, RMX can incredibly easily: Although Adobe hasn’t shipped a new MM font since the 90s, virtually all their internally developed type families use MM technology, and many other typeface designers use it as well. Yet Multiple Master fonts are still very useful as a font development tool, even if what gets delivered is a bunch of separate fonts.

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Apple’s support for MMs is flaky enough that Extensis tech support has suggested Suitcase should warn people they won’t work reliably, and Windows has no reasonable native support (an ATM install can be hacked on Vista and probably Windows 7 to make them work well, or you can do manual registry entries for every single font). Yeah, I know MM fonts are pretty nearly dead as a deliverable format for end users.

tabular figures from proportional with only a couple of clicksīut the real power of RMX comes when you start with a font file that has a Multiple Master weight axis.

A useful step towards making italics, at least for sans serifs.

intelligent slant: slants glyphs while keeping vertical tangents straight.

Very cool, even for moderately experienced type designers, though the experts may not need it.

“harmonize” curves: this takes the “lumpiness” out of malformed curves.

First are several very useful things that work with just about any typeface:

I think of the Remix Tools as having two sets of functions.

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Tim has a interesting/useful demo version for free download, while the full version starts at €179 for one computer. FontForge and DTL FontTools (including FontMaster) are its fellow high-end alternatives, while TypeTool and Fontographer are the primary low to mid-range options.)

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( FontLab Studio is the primary type design application used by the overwhelming majority of professional type designers.

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Type designers owe it to themselves and their sanity to check out RMX Tools.” - Thomas Phinney, Senior Fonts Product Manager at Extensis, designer of Hypatia Sans Pro for Adobe I can’t imagine willingly working without them. “The Font Remix Tools are an essential toolkit for anyone who wants to develop sophisticated typefaces with much greater efficiency. I was more than happy to share my thoughts: A little while back, Tim Ahrens asked me if I’d write a testimonial for his Font Remix Tools (“ RMX Tools”), a set of plug-ins for FontLab Studio 5.