[MW Forums]

For nearly any font editing task you’d want to accomplish, Fontographer is still, after 21 years, the quickest and most intuitive way to go. Fontographer 4.7.3 has one of the best interfaces ever developed for a Mac program. more

[Schneb]

I'm not in to the pro stuff. I wish they would make an LE version for $49 so that I can asign EPS images to keys. It can only be the standard keyboard stuff for all I care. That is too much money for just what I want to do.

[DanW]

On the FontLab product page, TypeTool and ScanFont look like they might suit your purposes. Not as cheap as you wanted, but not too bad.

[petkusj]

So that's where Fontographer ended up. I always wondered where it went.
Jennifer

[Nobody]

I could never understand the attachment users had for Fontographer. For a start it allowed only the crudest resolution scan for tracing. It also had some extreme oddities in the way it drew bezier objects as well as extremely chunky control points.
Despite all that it was for a long time the only game in town. I later used Letraset's FontStudio which had brilliant features but was horrifically buggy. You could get barely 5 minutes out of it before it would bomb. These days you really want to go with FontLab which is chock full of features.
As for the first bezier drawing program? I thought that honor went to Cricket, but it is all so long ago I may be wrong.

[Fixx]

Fontographer had/has really good interface, but also lot of problems. Drawing tools behaviour, import, snap features etc. I am not so sure if I were designing a font now that I would like to do it in Fontographer. Or maybe newest version has corrected all. Though OpenType export is quite must nowadays.
So, how is FontLab5? Other than horribly expensive, I mean? Have they fixed interface issues?

[ghmetcalfe]

Cricket Draw was the first PostScript drawing program...but didn't have a bezier editing tool. Basicly MacDraw with postscript. I was a major Cricket Draw afficionato way back when...and was resistent to Illustrator for about 6 months before seeing the light! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif When Cricket was originally released, you actually had to save the file to PostScript and use the Adobe PS Download utility to print. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif They DID fix that, hehe. I still have ancient portfolio stuff in CricketDraw laying around somewhere...a Cell phone, presentation graphics and some stuff I had done for Tangent Computers.
Visit my portfolio at GHMetcalfe.com