Introducing FontLab 7: The pro font editor, evolved.
FontLab 7 is a major upgrade to FontLab VI. FontLab VI was long in the making. We shipped the first public preview version in 2015, premiered the app in 2017, and we tirelessly kept making it better. You’ve seen some of these improvements in the free updates that we have published since the premiere. But we’ve also been working on a more comprehensive upgrade. So after a super-busy summer and autumn, we’re proud to present FontLab 7, the follow-up to FontLab VI!
Until December 22, 2019, you can buy FontLab 7 or upgrade from FontLab Studio 5, Fontographer or TypeTool 3 at a 25% discount. If you have FontLab VI, you can upgrade to 7 for just $99, and if you bought FontLab VI on August 1 or later, or if you have a full educational license for FontLab VI — the upgrade is free! See below for details.
Auto OpenType features • Equalize uneven stems • Edit all masters • Precision dragging • View centerline & thickness • Batch glyph renaming • Conditional glyphs • Both-sided kerning classes • Fix kerning clashes • VF intermediate masters • Parametric GPOS • PDF • JSON • CFF2 • STAT • Quick Help • 250+ features & fixes
We’ve learned a lot from you in the last four years. So FontLab 7 focuses on stability, productivity and technical excellence. We’ve incorporated countless user requests, and we’ve implemented some of our ideas that didn’t make it into the previous release. FontLab 7 brings more than 250 new features, fixes and improvements!
With FontLab 7, you can edit curves precisely without zooming, improve consistency of the weight (thickness measurement, equalize uneven stems), quickly create kerning classes (now also both-sided) and fix clashing kerning combinations. FontLab 7 fully supports variable fonts. You can open and export both CFF2- and TrueType VFs, with intermediate glyph masters and conditional glyph substitution, avar axis mapping and STAT axis instances. You can view multiple masters at the same time (as overlaid wireframes, and as cousins on the sides), and edit them (Edit across Layers, Match when Editing).
FontLab 7 now understands glyph naming from other font editors, and can automatically generate OpenType features based on different glyph naming schemes (it’s easy to batch-rename glyphs, too!). When you run FontLab 7, hold F1 over a user interface element, and let the new Quick Help tell you more about it. Built on a solid 64-bit foundation, FontLab 7 runs smoothly on macOS Catalina, on Windows 10, on older systems, and even on Linux with Wine!
Download 30-day trial
We’d love to know what you think about the new FontLab 7. So go ahead and download the 30-day trial version, which you can run side-by-side with your existing FontLab VI.
Buy FontLab 7
Upgrade from FontLab VI
$99 or free!
Download, install and run the FontLab 7 30-day trial version. The app is fully functional, so start working in the trial mode right away. You can install and use FontLab 7 parallel to FontLab VI, but when you save VFC/VFJ in FontLab 7, you won’t be able to open them correctly in FontLab VI.
Upgrade to FontLab 7 for free
If you bought FontLab VI on August 1, 2019 or later, or if you bought an full educational FontLab VI license in the last two years, you qualify for a free upgrade to FontLab 7!
If you bought FontLab VI on store.fontlab.com (after August 1 or educational), we will send you your free FontLab 7 serial number per e‑mail. Please wait a few days, but you can already download and run the 30-day trial. If your serial number does not arrive within a week, check your spam folder.
If you haven’t received your serial number per e‑mail in a few days, or if you bought FontLab VI through a distributor after August 1, visit our store and “buy” the “FontLab 7 for Mac & Win (FREE upgrade if you bought FontLab VI after Aug 1, 2019)” product (it’s free, you don’t need to pay). Enter your FontLab VI serial number (FL60…) in the Add Comments section of Step 5 of Checkout. We will verify your order and will send you the serial number in a day or two.
If you bought a FontLab VI school lab license, please contact orders@fontlab.com and we’ll issue you free upgrades for your lab.
Upgrade to FontLab 7 for just $99
If you bought a FontLab VI full license or a paid upgrade before August 1, 2019, or if you received your FontLab VI license through the free upgrade program from FontLab Studio 5 — upgrade to FontLab 7 for just US$99, the cost of a small font family.
Upgrade to FontLab 7 from FontLab Studio 5, from Fontographer and from TypeTool 3
25% off until December 22!
- Upgrade from FontLab Studio 5 for just $149 (later $199)
- Upgrade from Fontographer for just $172 (later $229)
- Upgrade from TypeTool 3 for just $299 (later $415)
Buy FontLab 7
Just $345 until December 22!
If you’re a first-time user of our font editors, hurry — buy FontLab 7 at the special introductory price of $345 until December 22, 2019! After that, you can buy it for $459.
Student? Teacher?
If you’re a student or a teacher, buy the full educational version of FontLab 7 for just $229. You can use the app for any purpose (including creation of commercial fonts), even after you leave the school.
If you’re a student or teacher and you already own a 1‑year educational FontLab VI license, or you’re new to FontLab — you can buy a new 1‑year educational license for FontLab 7 for just $89.
If you represent an educational institution (a high school, college or university), or you’re a group of students, buy 8 or more licenses at just $184 per license!
Hear the early adopters of FontLab 7!
Fábio Duarte Martins (Scannerlicker), designer of Optician Sans and Electrica, says of FontLab 7: “This baby is a rock-solid font development software, from design to engineering. Drawing is a joy: FontLab has the best drawing tools I’ve ever seen, and they just got better!”
Eduardo Tunni, designer of the Graduate variable superfont, says: “Great stuff! FontLab 7 is very stable. Congrats to the FontLab team.”
Dave Lawrence (California Type Foundry), designer of CAL Bodoni and CAL Zed, says “If you want to make more fonts faster and better and if you want to stay ahead of the competition, go with FontLab 7. My favorite parts of FontLab are auto layers, glyph masters and FontAudit. Using these features, I was able to create an average of 167 ornamental glyphs (in two weights) per day. By automating much of the grunt work, I think I’m doing some of the best work of my life.”
Vassil Kateliev, (Karandash / The FontMaker), co-designer of the Bolyar font family and developer of TypeRig, sums FontLab 7 up: “I’ll put it simply: FontLab 7 is superb! What’s not to love? The best vector engine for drawing and manipulation I have seen in ages. Rock-steady interpolation engine that is also compliant with variable OpenType fonts.”
“Start with an excellent multi-paradigm approach to type design – old-school outlines, element references, components, auto-generated glyphs, or all of them combined. Sprinkle on top a handful of nifty tricks to speed up your work like auto layers or auto OpenType feature generation. Combine that with a super powerful Python based API (that I actually use a lot). Let’s not forget multi-platform: a fact that I consider very important. The new FontLab is an endless ocean of opportunities — you get an app for every taste and workflow,” he continues.
Kateliev concludes: “FontLab 7 finally feels really mature. Don’t take my word for it — obviously I am a devotee. Just give it a try, and see for yourself!”
