FontLab

Font editor FontLabFontLab8 Web WorkflowStable release8.4.2.8950 / 25 September 2024; 2 years ago (2024-09-25) Operating systemWindows, macOSWebsitefontlab.com FontLab is a font editor developed by Fontlab Ltd. FontLab is available for Windows and macOS. History The software was initially developed by the company SoftUnion Ltd. of Saint Petersburg, Russia, under lead programmer Yuri Yarmola. In 1992, Pyrus North America Ltd. was formed in the United States to distribute and market FontLab 2.0 for Microsoft Windows, which was released in 1993. Pyrus North America eventually bought all the rights to FontLab, hired Yarmola, and then restructured as Fontlab Ltd., Inc. The company is distributed, but programming is still done primarily by a Russian team, partly in St. Petersburg, while the company is incorporated in Panama.[citation needed] FontLab's first macOS product was FontLab 3 for Mac, which was released in 1998. FontLab Studio 5 was the first issued for both Mac and Windows. Although initially Windows versions always came first, the two versions have been released simultaneously since the release of FontLab 6 (VI). Additionally, FontLab has developed spinoff font editors for spe