The Ultra Bold Font Editor
With FontLab VI, you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable fonts. The app is an all-around font editor, but also supports data interchange with other font creation tools, making it easy to integrate into your existing workflows.
We’ve put our all into FontLab VI. We talked to type designers from all over the world and watched them work. We kept what’s best from our classic apps, FontLab Studio and Fontographer, including many familiar keyboard shortcuts, while streamlining every function.
We’ve also introduced new, bold ideas. FontLab VI brings powerful drawing tools and responsive contour operations to make your design process faster and more efficient, whether you’re an expert or a beginner.
FontLab now supports color and variability, allowing you to explore new creative possibilities. Industry-standard components and best practices are built in, helping you produce technically solid fonts.
Next-Generation Drawing
Creating Bézier curves is no longer “mastery or mystery.”
Brush & Power Brush
Apply the Power Brush to a “skeleton” contour for live, adjustable calligraphic strokes. Control angle and thickness, tweak after drawing, and reuse presets across your font.
Pencil Tool
The Pencil tool offers a fluid sketching experience. Trim, tweak, smooth, and refine freely without being slowed down by Bézier constraints.
Rapid Tool
The Rapid tool works like a Pen on turbo: click for lines, double-click for curves. It automatically creates smooth shapes and identifies optimal node positions.
Adjust curve tension with handles or apply defaults instantly. Ideal for consistent shapes and quick tracing of sketches or images.
Pen Tool
Prefer a classic Bézier workflow? The Pen tool combines the best features from earlier FontLab tools and industry standards.
And if traditional Bézier editing feels limiting, the alternative drawing tools offer a much more intuitive approach.
The Gray Box
Portable release description
📂 Files
- FontLab 8.4.3.8984 Portable.exe = main program and data file
🧩 Addons & Plugins
This is a multi-package portable. Plugins/addons/extensions/presets/brushes/etc can be added in two ways:
• via .svm files (managed by me), put in the same folder as main exe.
• via 'normal files' (managed by you), put under sandbox folder.
\Sandbox\FontLab 8.4.3.8984\roaming\modified\@PROGRAMFILES@\FontLab\...
⚡ Portable Features
- No installation required
- No Admin rights needed
- Pre-activated
- 100% Offline, completely safe to use, no firewall needed
- Sandbox folder containing modified settings, delete to reset
- Just run it and enjoy!
Note: portable v6 rebuilt on 25-dec-2024 to make it work on Win11 update 24H2+. Newer than that are ok
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Download
| Version | Format ? | Size ? | Download ? | ||
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Portable releases | |||||
FontLab | 8.4.3.8984 Show older versions | Portable | 138.6 MB | ||
6.0.4.66340 | Portable | 252 MB | |||
Setup releases | |||||
FontLab | 8.4.3.8984 Show older versions | Setup | 214.8 MB | ||
6.0.4.66340 | Setup | 75 MB | |||
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Tools – Actions – Effects – Bold, when there are many characters (asian fonts), the app crashes and exit.
This is a bit old, did you try some of the fixes for old portables on new w10 builds present in faq page?
Thanks for the great tool! Any plans upgrading to version 7?
You can add a request… my plans are in req page 😉
Hi! Could you please re-upload this tool? I’d really like to use it, thank you
reuploaded 😉
It looks like it doesn’t work on Windows 10 1903.
sorry will update