High-Logic Software Products

Scanahand

It's never been easier to make your own custom fonts. Scanahand allows you to generate fonts without the need to know all of the technical details involved. How does it work? Simply print a template, draw all of the characters using a black marker or felt-tip pen, and scan your drawing. Scanahand will build your font, and install it on Windows, ready for you to use. You don't need to use additional graphics software, but Power Users and Hobbyists alike can use Scanahand along with their favorite graphic drawing software to create or modify each character of their font. So even without a printer and scanner you'll be able to create custom fonts. Scanahand lets you digitize your signature, and use it in any Windows program. You can turn icons, company logos, or any line art into font characters. If you have a graphics program installed on your computer, it's easy to open your hand-written template, and add artistic flair to each of your font characters. You can even load your fonts onto Macintosh computers. It's easy and fun to create a new font, and another one, and one more... This is a shareware listed under graphic apps font tools category.

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FontCreator Home Edition

This professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType fonts. It has the powerful font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that even allows beginners to become productive immediately. The editor lets you easily select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology. Features include the ability to convert (scanned) images to outlines, thus enabling you to create fonts with your own signature, logo and handwriting. The advanced validation features make the design process easy and help you avoid common mistakes. The new drawing tools greatly simplify and speed up the design process. The extended Complete Composites feature quickly adds diacritical marks to incomplete glyphs. This powerful feature can complete over a thousand characters within a few seconds. Whether you're a typographer or graphic designer who needs a font creation powerhouse, or a hobbyist who wants to have fun creating new fonts, FontCreator has the tools you need. FontCreator Home Edition is a shareware categorized under fonts, font management tools, authoring tools, design tools.

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MainType

MainType is a powerful font manager for Windows that offers a straightforward and easy-to-use interface to help you maintain your fonts. It includes features for novice users who just want to view and install fonts as well as advanced features for graphic designers and typographers. In order to find the right fonts for your needs, the software includes filter and sort functionality as well as a font information pane that reveals important typographic data. The groups pane helps you quickly organize your font collection. For your convenience the character grid shows all characters grouped in Unicode blocks. Print (along with print preview) results in outstanding reports. The export wizard is able to output font information to clipboard, text and html. MainType license is shareware and it is listed in fonts, font management tools, font tools, fonts, tools, font managers, authoring tools, design software.

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