Original creator of FontTools and DrawBot. DrawBotĭrawBot was originally developed by Just van Rossum An independent type designer, graphic designer, software developer and teacher. Fontographer quickly became obsolete, and its user base gradually moved to FontLab. The format is developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe. OpenType fonts can include layout tables for advanced typographic features, color font formats, and variations. There were important font technology developments around that time, for example Unicode and the new OpenType An extension to the TrueType sfnt font format that allows for either TrueType or Postscript outlines to be used. Users had a lot of fun with its features, and used it to build tools which were very useful for their workflows.Īltsys was acquired by Macromedia in 1995, and Fontographer development slowed down after version 4.1.
It included a small toolkit for creating custom UIs in pure Python. RoboFog was very successful within its niche market.
