Fontographer

Macromedia Fontographer was a font creation and editing utility that was released by Macromedia for classic Mac OS, NeXTSTEP, and Windows.

History
Fontographer was originally developed by James Von Ehr as Altsys' first product in January 1986. Version 2.0 was released in the fall of that year. Its graphics engine became the foundation of Aldus FreeHand 1.0.

Altsys was acquired by Macromedia in January 1995. Version 4.1 was included with Macromedia FreeHand Graphics Studio and FreeHand Graphics Studio 7 for Macintosh. The Macromedia packaging was designed by J. Stewart Huey.

In May 2005, before the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, FontLab licensed the rights to continue developing Fontographer, alongside its higher end FontLab Studio product. The last updates from Macromedia at the time were versions 3.5.2 / 4.1 for Windows and 4.1.3 for Macintosh / Power Macintosh. Fontlab began immediately selling versions 4.1.4 for Macintosh and 4.1.5 for Windows. By November 2005, version 4.7 for Mac OS X was released. The last release to date from FontLab is version 5.2.3 in December 2013. The Mac version is 32-bit and is not supported by macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later.

Books

 * Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers at Apple Books