FontForge
FontForge is a free and open-source font editor used by font designers, type foundries, and visual professionals to create, modify and build TrueType, OpenType, Type 1 and other font formats. It provides tools for drawing glyphs, managing kerning and ligatures, hinting, spacing, and exporting finished fonts. FontForge is cross-platform and available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it a popular choice in the professional type design community and among independent font creators.
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1 suggestionFontForge has shipped a native Apple Silicon build via Homebrew since at least the March 2022 release. If you installed FontForge originally via Homebrew, the simplest way to get the native build is to run `brew upgrade fontforge` in Terminal, which will automatically pull the current native-arm64 version. If you downloaded FontForge from the official GitHub releases page as a standalone installer, visit github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases and download the latest release — the official page now serves Universal Binary or native Apple Silicon builds for newer releases. If your older downloaded version is still running under Rosetta, updating to either the Homebrew or GitHub-sourced native build will give you noticeably better performance and battery life. The native build has been stable in FontForge for several years now, so no beta testing or opt-in is required.
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