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Founded in 1997, High-Logic is dedicated to providing quality font editing and font managing software at affordable prices to business and home users worldwide. The company’s flagship product is FontCreator, the world’s most popular font editor for Windows. With the release of a professional font manager in 2005, High-Logic shows its continued commitment to the typography community. In 2008 we released a new product named Scanahand, that allows people to generate a font based on their handwriting in just a couple of minutes. High-Logic is a privately held company headquartered in De Bilt, The Netherlands.

Currently High-Logic has developed three products, with more than two million downloads. In the near future High-Logic will produce more products, so please register for the newsletter to keep informed about our products.

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FontCreator

FontCreator has the powerful font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that even allows beginners to become productive immediately.

Press Release FontCreator

Powerful Font Editor for Professional Graphic Designers and Hobbyists

De Bilt, Utrecht June 17, 2009 — High-Logic B.V., a leader in providing font editing software, today announces FontCreator 6, the world’s most popular font editor. This version delivers powerful tools such as direct import of both raster and vector based images. With FontCreator 6, font designers can create and modify high quality TrueType and OpenType fonts faster than ever.

Custom Fonts for Business People and Hobbyists

With FontCreator, users can tailor customized fonts to meet their needs. It’s easy to add new characters to an existing font. Users can design custom bullet points, or include a company logo and other artwork in day-to-day memos, letters, and flyers. Once converted to a fully scalable font, the characters can be typed using any text editor, word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation program.

Font Editing Powerhouse Gets Better

New features in this font editor include the ability to directly import vector-based images such as AI, EPS, and PDF; support for copying and pasting from Adobe Illustrator; and improved cubic to quadratic Bézier curve conversion.

Pro Version for Typographers and Graphic Designers

The Professional Edition of FontCreator contains features that will benefit typographers, graphic designers, font foundries, and power-users. It can create hundreds of additional characters in seconds, transform an entire set of characters into something as simple as a bold, italic, hollow, or condensed font. It can also add diacritical marks to characters, and perform automatic kerning. The Professional Edition also offers a real-time validation feature that detects and fixes easily overlooked design mistakes.

MainType

MainType is a powerful but easy to use font manager and font viewer for Windows, that takes the frustration out of managing your fonts. It is packed with tons of intuitive features that makes it simple to find, preview, organize, install, and print your fonts.

Press Release MainType

MainType unveils all you need to know about your fonts

De Bilt, Utrecht March 31, 2010 — High-Logic B.V., the world’s leading provider of font editing and font managing software today releases MainType 3. This innovative font manager takes the frustration out of managing your fonts. Using drag and drop, MainType makes it simple to find, preview, organize, install, and print your fonts.

Novice computer users will appreciate how easy it is to view, install, and organize their font collections. Power users, including typographers and professional designers, will appreciate the features that aren’t available in other font software: MainType provides immediate system-wide font synchronization, with no need to refresh font lists or reboot the computer after installing fonts. MainType supports all seventeen planes defined in the Unicode character database, and can display all characters that are included in a font. MainType supports all common font formats, including TrueType Font Collections that contain two or more fonts.

It’s easy to sort your fonts into groups, making it faster to maintain fonts required for you daily tasks. You can preview and browse fonts on any drive, before installing them. The font export wizard generates an web based overview of any of your fonts. You can use MainType to locate a particular character in any font, and paste it into another Windows application as formatted text or as a bitmap image.

New features in version 3.0 include full Windows 7 support, show all glyphs feature, better handling of font substitutes, a new setting for aliased and ClearType font display, and cosmetic improvements to the interface.

Whether you’re a business person who needs to find the best fonts for your flyers and brochures, a home user who wants to take control of the hundreds of fonts on your system, or a graphic designer or typographer who needs the power of an advanced font management system, MainType has the tools that you need.

Testimonials

Awards (See link for all Award Icons)

Over the years numerous websites, computer magazines and typographers have praised us for our excellent software and support. Below you’ll find a selection of awards for FontCreator, Scanahand, and MainType that we are proud of.