Letter Labs vs Glyphon

Letter Labs turns your handwriting into a real, installable font you can use anywhere. Draw each letter on a guided canvas using your finger or Apple Pencil, and Letter Labs compiles your writing into a professional .otf font file that works across documents, design apps, and social media. DRAW YOUR LETTERS Use a clean, simple canvas with typography guides like the baseline, x-height, ascender, and descender to help keep your letters consistent. A faint reference character shows where to place each stroke, so it feels approachable even if you have never made a font before. CHOOSE FROM 6 BRUSH STYLES Pick the tool that matches your style: Felt Pen, Pencil, Marker, Crayon, Fountain Pen, or Monoline. Each one keeps its texture in the final font, including pencil grain and marker softness. BUILD YOUR CHARACTER SET Create as much or as little as you want. Add lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols. A progress bar and glyph grid make it easy to see what is done and jump between characters. PREVIEW YOUR FONT Watch your handwriting turn into a real working typeface as you go and see how your letters come together as a complete font. EXPORT AND EMAIL YOUR FONT When you are ready, export your font as a standard .otf file and save to your files or share it in one tap. Your font works in any app that supports custom fonts. AUTO SAVE Every stroke is saved automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off. PRIVACY FIRST Your work stays on your device. Letter Labs does not require an account or sign in. PRICING Letter Labs is free to download and free to use while you draw, create projects, and preview your fonts. When you are ready to export: • Export one font: $4.99 one time • Unlimited exports: $9.99 one time, forever No subscriptions. No recurring charges. Download Letter Labs and start creating your own font!

Glyphon is a pixel font editor built for anyone who loves the craft of bitmap typography. Whether you're designing a retro game font, a lo-fi display face, or a complete character set, Glyphon gives you the tools to draw, refine, and ship your typeface — at your desk or in your pocket. DRAW PIXEL-PERFECT GLYPHS Work in a large pixel grid with pinch-to-zoom, a toggleable grid overlay, and draggable typographic guides for baseline, cap height, x-height, ascender, and descender. Drag any guide directly on the canvas for instant precision. Every stroke is undo-able. FULL UNICODE SUPPORT Your font isn't limited to the ASCII alphabet. Add glyphs for any Unicode range — Basic Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek, Hiragana, Katakana, Box Drawing, and more — in a single step. EXPORT TO INDUSTRY FORMATS When your font is ready, export it as: - TTF — install directly on your Mac or share with other designers - BDF — the open bitmap standard used in embedded and terminal applications - JSON — a portable format for round-tripping with the Glyphon web app DESIGN WITH PRECISION - Per-glyph advance width with a live visual indicator on the canvas - Origin-aware horizontal flip that keeps your left-bearing columns in place - Shift pixels in any direction with a single tap or keyboard shortcut - Copy and paste pixel designs between glyphs - Flood fill for closed areas LIVE PREVIEW See your font render real text as you draw. Type any sentence into the preview strip to test spacing, rhythm, and readability at a glance. SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Start a typeface on your Mac, refine it on iPad, finish a stubborn glyph on your phone. iCloud sync keeps every font current on every device — automatically. Each font is still a self-contained file you own. DESIGNED FOR MAC, iPAD, AND iPHONE Glyphon is a native SwiftUI app, at home on every Apple device. On Mac, every action has a keyboard shortcut. On iPad, pinch to zoom and swipe between glyphs. On iPhone, the full editor fits in your pocket — draw a font in a boring meeting and it'll be waiting on your Mac when you get back.