Fontographer is our classic clutter-free font editor. With Fontographer, it’s easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can work reliably across different operating systems. Fontographer is extremely easy to use but packs a lot of technical sophistication under the hood. So you can create professional fonts without being a technical expert.
macOS 10.15 Catalina drops all 32-bit app support, which means FontLab Studio 5, Fontographer 5, TypeTool 3, and BitFonter 3 for Mac will not run on it — and porting them to 64-bit is not feasible. If you are on Catalina, your options are CrossOver Mac 19 (run the Windows versions via a thin emulation layer), a virtual machine running an older macOS or Windows, or upgrading to the 64-bit FontLab 7.
2005 was a pivotal year for Fontlab Ltd. The company shipped FontLab Studio 5, which became the dominant professional font editor for the next decade. FontLab also acquired Fontographer from Macromedia, reviving a tool that had been dormant since the mid-1990s.