TransType is our universal font converter. With TransType, you can easily convert your collection of legacy Adobe PostScript Type 1 fonts into rock-solid, high-quality modern OpenType fonts, and use them in any apps for years to come! You can batch-convert your OpenType and TrueType fonts into CSS @font-face web fonts (WOFF & EOT) and use them on websites. And you can organize and rename font families automatically and with easy drag-and-drop, create intermediate weights by blending two fonts together, and apply special effects for rounded corners, tracking, autokerning, slanting or distortion.
Your variable font holds hundreds of styles. Word shows you nine. Some apps show you one. Drop it into TransType 5, add any instance you want, click Convert: every style lands in your font menus, ready to use. 10 conversions are free!
Nothing gets old faster than a font format — until a client opens a twenty-year-old file and suddenly it is everybody’s problem again.
Digital formats rarely retire on their own. New ones arrive, the world picks them up, and the older format is gradually sunsetted by the companies that built it. PostScript Type 1 followed exactly that arc, and TransType 4 has been the friendly moving van ever since — keeping the typefaces inside those old files alive on modern systems.
PostScript Type 1 fonts are on their way out. Adobe is ending Type 1 support in Creative Cloud applications in early 2023, and Apple has signalled the same direction in macOS. If you have a library of Type 1 fonts — and many working designers do — now is the time to convert them to OpenType.
TransType 4 arrived in December 2013 as a complete rewrite of our font conversion app. It added multi-color OpenType output and web font export to its core toolkit.