Top 5 Font Softwares
July 25th, 2025

Many users, game devs, companies, or enthusiasts want to create their own font, whether it is professionally or just for fun. Out in the wild there are a lot of platforms that will allow to create your own fonts, but which one is the best?

Now, nobody can really say what the "best" software is for anything, as there are a lot of areas to rate, and some do a thing good that the others do bad yadadada, you get the point. So this is why, we are rating the 5 Platforms depending on 3 categories;

> Exportability: How easy is it to export your font? How fast can you use it?
> Pricing: Is the price-to-performance ratio good?
> Accessbility: Can users experience difficulties with the program? Is it complicated to use?

With that being said, let us get right into it!

WE'LL STAY OBJECTIVE HERE

myFonttyper is still a pretty new kid on the block, so it does not have features that a lot of font focused website might have. Its sole purpose is also not only the creation of a font. The creation of fonts is just an extra feature.

But how do we create fonts though? For creating them, you first have to register and login. In myFonttyper that will take about 2 minutes of your time (if it takes you 1 minute to find the verification mail). After that, head to draw, and draw all of your characters. As a logged in user you can even draw any characters you want really, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, it is all your choice!

After you are finished with that, head to your Profile and scroll down. Just above the logout button you can see the "Export Button". Click on it, and choose the name and the style of your font (bold, italic, bold-italic, regular). The rest is done automatically. It will get downloaded as an OTF, and the styling will be put on it on the client side.

myFonttyper lets you do all of this with ease. No confusion, just quick, from register to font within 10 minutes or less. However, there are a lot of issues with myFonttyper.

For one, it does not have a proper font creation layout. Yes it is beginner friendly, but what is the use in that if you are a professional and want to create a more interesting font? Next, the exporting is set to OTF, though some users might not want to export it as OTF. There is no choice in exporting, it is just done how the software wants it. And finally, there is no Font features. Whether it is Kerning, Ligatures or Spacing, the user has no control. The exported fonts do not look bad, but there are visibile issues with the spacing, and if you highlight letters, you can see that the block that they're in, sometimes does not match their actual width.

Last but not least, myFonttyper is very beginner friendly, and quick when it comes to creating your own fonts, but the exportability and the features for the pricing, do not really blow the ballpark.

RATING:
Exportability: 3/5
Pricing: 3/5
Accessbility: 5/5

* we are actively improving our website to make it more enjoyable for our users. Constantly adding new features, stay up to date!

FOR CALLIGRAPHR WE USE THE FREE TIER.
PRO TIER (6$/month)

Calligraphr is a pretty popular choice for beginners that want to create a font from their own handwriting. They even have a really simple Tutorial to let you understand how to exactly get your own font.

First, we simply login and register, so we can have access to the templates. Here is how one of the templates looks (https://www.calligraphr.com/en/docs/tutorial1/);

After we filled it in with our own handwriting using tools such as Paint, or literally any software that allows you to draw on images. Get your blank calligraphr template, and then fill out all of the letters and characters, step by step, focusing on the lines of course!
Then, when we are done, save the png, and then head to the Upload Fonts section;


Select the png with the filled in letters, and then upload it. It will process your png file, and extract all of the symbols, and letters. It will adjust the width based on the way you drew, and will give you a pretty perfect font;


(ignore my handwriting, there is a reason I created myFonttyper).

And with that, we have created our own font. That took literal minutes. The navigation might confuse one at first, but using the well made tutorials, you can find what you need fairly quickly.

What I loved about Calligraphr is how quick everything was. From register to font, it was about 15 minutes, and that was because I wasted 3 minutes trying to find Paint on Windows. There really is not much to say, other than the fact that Calligraphr is really a good choice for beginners who want to create their own font for the first time.
They also allow for variants of letters, to make it the handwriting seem more natural, which is also something I really really enjoyed working with.

The issue I had whilst doing this were small. One was, that I as a free user had no option in giving my own templates. Checking the Price page, we see that we as free users are limited to only 75 characters per font, as well as only 1 concurrent font, meaning we cannot work on two fonts at once, except if we create a different account. These limitations, especially considering the fact, that the template (atleast for english), does not even include the Latin numbers, might be a reason why a lot of people might not choose Calligraphr for their font creation tool.

Furthermore, the data of your fonts are stored within your browser if you are not a Pro User. Meaning that in order to use your work on your font, you would need to have the image (or if you have variants, images), ready to import to your browser, and even then, the baseline changes are only refleced onto your browser. I think that sucks a little bit for the Free User tier.

Also, in order to use Calligraphr you would need two platforms, 1. Calligraphr, and 2. A Paint Software. The switch between softwares just to use one, might seem tideous for some, though it did not feel for me.

Lastly, there is not really an option to give fonts a variation. Meaning, the bold, italic, or other types of fonts are not supported out of the box, even though a lot of people who want to create and export their fonts, prefer to have more than just the regular font.
Creating a whole new font for the bold type is, as mentioned prior, not supported unless you are a Pro User.
Much love to the creator of Calligraphr (Tobias Reinhardt), check out his other creations over here; Maklabu.

RATING:
Exportability: 2/5
Pricing: 3/5 (Free tier)
Accessbility: 3/5

WE USED FONTFORGE WINDOWS VERSION (2023-01-01).

FontForge is available on all big OS', Linux, Windows, and macOS. It is a pretty well featured and well build software, however, the learning curve, is a little steep.

Right of the bat, we are thrown onto a page, like this one;


Personally, I am not a person who likes to google stuff, I always try to find a way on my own... However, for this one, I gave up. After double clicking mindlessly, on one Letter, a popup opened;


After I saw this, I knew I was lost. After trying to draw, and seeing no results, I had to rely on their Website, as there were no (atleast I did not see any), tutorials on their app.

Using the tutorial online (and a little bit of YouTube), I finally figured out on how to create glyphs. And to be honest, it is quite fun when you get the hang of it. Here are all of the uppercase letters I did;


I geniunly had fun drawing them. However, I would recommend anybody wanting to use fontforge to actually watch a YouTube Video (Michael Harmon [FontForge Master Class]) that explains the concepts in an understandable way.

The good thing with fontforge is, it is really compact. There is a lot you can do in it, to make sure your font is as clean as possible. It is also pretty performant, even though I only drew less than 30 letters, it responded pretty quickly and cleanly to me.

Furthermore, it is free. Like for the usage you get out of it, it has a pretty well build system. It even allows for scripting in python, upon many other functions that are WAY out of this scope.

However, there are some caveats when using fontforge. For one, as mentioned, it is a pretty steep learning curve, so it might be too complicated for a user who has not learned a lot of bezier curves.
Next, it might seem overwhelming because of no introduction in-app. Getting put into an app, seeing all these symbols and not knowing what to do next happens way to often. It would be great if we had atleast a simple tutorial that shows us around, or lets us understand how to navigate through the app in the first place.
Lastly, the support for this app has been, well, inexistent. The latest version we installed was from 2023 1st January, which is as of now more than 2 years old. Bugs, Wishes, Missing features and Security concerns are completely ignored, which is why, for some, fontforge might also not be the optimal software to produce a font.

RATING:
Exportability: 4/5 (great support)
Pricing: 5/5
Accessbility: 2/5

GLYPHR STUDIO ONLY HAS A FREE WEBSITE

When we first go to the glyphr studio page, and then go to the app, we will see this page;


which looks like a cleanly designed website. After you finish the startup page, you thrown onto the overview page;


Here, you can click on any letter to begin your font creation journey, and I have to say, this website was even more complicated to use then fontforge. I mean, there were not really many options, but the way the glyphs were built really confused me, as a user who has never really created a single font on their own.

After a little bit of tinkering around, I kinda got the hang of it and started to create my own letters. But the reason why I am saying I was confused, is because of the sheer amount of data presented on screen while drawing your paths.


The numbers, words, icons, it just seems like a lot. I was overwhelmed and tbh, I just tried until something worked, this letter is my very first attempt of this. Yeah, I know.
What sucked a lot for me however, was the fact that I could not create fonts for my own custom letters. The way it worked is, I had to give a hex value start, and a hex value end, and between those hex values, the characters would be allowed, which I always find infuriating, because a lot of characters that I want to test, are not a part of the 255 ASCII codes.

However, we gotta give respect where it due. For someone who knows how all of this works, it is probably a field day. The sheer amount of options somebody has on this website are just unfathomable. It is not an app, it is a website, yet it has just everything you could ask for. Even the Export was blazingly fast.

But, from an accessbility stand point, this is nowhere near a software that any beginner should use. Professionals might have fun with this, but beginners will most definitely not. Though, it is important to also mention, they do have a Support website.

RATING:
Exportability: 3/5 (fast [not much support])
Pricing: 5/5
Accessbility: 1/5

WE INSTALLED BIRDFONT VIA STEAM

Last but not least BirdFont. I was actually surprised when I heard that it was on Steam. I thought it was a joke, but no, it actually is on Steam. Decided to go for the Steam version, because Windows Anti Virus went crazy when I tried to run the .exe file.

When opening BirdFont, we are greeted with this view;


Now, we kinda have to click on SIL, as we are using the commercial version of BirdFont. After that, we can all of the characters available again for our use;


Finally, click on the letter, and get started with creating. And now for the first time I can say, I did not need a tutorial to use this. Maybe it is because this is the 4th time I am creating a font today, and I grasped the concept well enough to do it without a tutorial, oh well.
Atleast for me, this seemed a lot easier than the other platforms we have had, also a lot more beginner friendly. There are no numbers, or words that might confuse somebody.


The icons are understood well and quickly, and there really is no issue in drawing the font for a character aswell. Amazingly enough, the app contains more than 20k Unicode characters, and also allows for versioning of these characters. It is amazing that the app is free, and has so many features, like Kerning, Ligatures or Spacing.

After toying around with it for a bit, I can say that BirdFont is a pretty good finisher for this list. Beginner friendly, and feature rich, while also being free. The only issue I have is, the export is only done in .TTF files for free users. Only users who have donated a sum of money (10$) are allowed to export their fonts as OTF.

RATING:
Exportability: 2/5
Pricing: 4/5
Accessbility: 4/5