Download Fontista 0.1.0
Free, no account, no complicated install: unzip and launch. The whole workshop is there; only export (fonts, poster) needs a licence.
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, Vulkan or DirectX 12 capable graphics card (any card since about 2015).
Free trial and licence
| Free trial | With licence | |
|---|---|---|
| Drawing, Lab (Modules, Liquid), Preview, Collisions, Poster | yes | yes |
| Open .glyphs, .ufo, .ttf, .otf… | yes | yes |
| Save as .fontista | yes | yes |
| Export TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, variable font, UFO | no | yes |
| Poster export (PDF, SVG, PNG) | no | yes |
| Command-line tools | no | yes |
Licence
A licence is bought on sell.thinkspark.dev; paste the key you receive in Help › Licence…. A Mac App Store version is planned.
First launch
Mac: unzip, drag Fontista.app into Applications, then right-click › Open › Open. If macOS says it is “damaged”: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Fontista.app".
Windows: unzip and run fontista.exe. If SmartScreen complains: “More info” › “Run anyway”.
Then the tutorial guides you step by step.
The interface fonts (Source Sans Pro, Source Code Pro, Space Mono) are under the OFL licence; third-party component licences are in the archive.