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.The key role of Fontographer in the font revolution by David Bergsland, Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers. Radiqx Press. 2011-09.
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.Software Review : Freehand Graphics Studio 7 for the Macintosh by Kathryn Lively, Compute Me!. Archived. 1997-03. The Macromedia packaging was designed by J. Stewart Huey.Macromedia Fontographer by J. Stewart Huey, Katharine Green, CleanGetaway Communications and Branding. 2009.
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.Macromedia Fontographer Support Center, Macromedia. Archived 2005-05-13. Fontlab began immediately selling versions 4.1.4 for Macintosh and 4.1.5 for Windows.Fontographer has a new home at Fontlab Ltd.!, FontLab. Archived 2005-05-10. By November 2005, version 4.7 for Mac OS X was released.Fontographer 4.7 (Mac) & 4.1.5 (Win), FontLab. Archived 2005-11-24. 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.
==References==
==External links==
*Macromedia Fontographer 4.1 at Macromedia (archived 1996-10-27)
**Fontographer Designers Center support (archived 1997-04-06)
**Macromedia Fontographer Support Center (archived 2005-10-01)
*Fontographer 5 at FontLab
**FogLamp 1.0 / 2.0 Fontographer source file converter (archived 2005-11-19 / 2006-06-15)
*Altsys: small company with bit-time graphics impact by Cliff Lehman at MacWeek (1990-04-24, archived 2010-07-21)
*Interview with the FontMeister at BlogSpot (2006-05-31, archived 2011-07-08)
*Font Editor Tool History at Design With FontForge
*Fontographer at The Best of NeXT Computers
*Macromedia Fontographer at the Adobe Wiki
*Macromedia Fontographer at the Macromedia Wiki
*Fontographer at the NeXT Wiki
* at Wikipedia
===Books===
*Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers at Apple Books
Category:Classic Mac OS utilities
Category:Discontinued software
Category:Macromedia software
Category:NeXTSTEP software
Category:Windows utilities
Category:1986 introductions