Draw Fonts vs FontStudio

Design your own typeface—or start with 500 open-source fonts already included. Draw Fonts is a private font-design studio for iPhone and iPad. Draw characters with Apple Pencil or your finger, capture lettering from paper, refine every glyph, and preview your OpenType font as you work. Preview, edit, and install included fonts on iPhone and iPad, then use them in Pages, Microsoft Word and other Office apps, Scrivener, and more where custom fonts are supported. DRAW WITH TYPOGRAPHIC GUIDES • Work against cap-height, x-height, baseline, and descender guides • Adjust glyph size, baseline position, and sidebearings • Edit vector outlines for precise shapes • Add multiple forms of a character for automatic contextual alternates CAPTURE LETTERING FROM PAPER • Print a three-page handwriting template • Scan completed pages with the camera or import them from Photos • Convert captured lettering into editable glyph artwork on device • Import TTF, OTF, WOFF2, and variable fonts you have permission to modify REFINE THE TYPEFACE • Create custom kerning pairs and two-to-four-character ligatures • Review spacing and common-pair kerning suggestions before applying them • Batch-edit glyph status, metrics, and artwork • Compare your typeface with the system font and find missing characters PROOF AND ORGANIZE • Preview paragraphs, posters, invitations, comics, and interface text • Export PDF specimens • Keep multiple independent font projects • Duplicate projects, create backups, and restore fonts from Recently Deleted • Browse, preview, edit, and install 500 included open-source typefaces EXPORT REAL FONT FILES • Export TrueType (TTF) and WOFF2 font files • Generate CSS @font-face code and a complete ZIP release package • Create an installation profile for apps that support custom fonts • Preserve designer, copyright, license, version, description, and website metadata PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your handwriting, imported artwork, and font projects stay on your device. No account is required, and Draw Fonts does not upload your font data. Create and explore up to three font projects at no cost. A one-time Lifetime Unlock enables unlimited projects and all export formats. No subscription.

Turn your handwriting into a font you can actually use. FontStudio is a complete type design studio for iPhone and iPad: draw every letter, perfect the curves, tune spacing and kerning, then export a real TTF, OTF, or WOFF file. Everything is made and stored on your device. DRAW EVERY LETTER • Sketch each character with Apple Pencil or your finger on a pressure-sensitive canvas • Four nib profiles: Pressure, Monoline, Calligraphic with a pen angle dial, and Tapered • Guides for baseline, x-height, cap height, ascender, and descender, plus an adjustable grid • Trace or compare against a ghost reference letter shown in any font on your device • Pencil-only mode lets fingers pan and zoom while only Apple Pencil draws • Double-tap or squeeze your Apple Pencil to switch between drawing and erasing • Deep per-letter undo and redo that survives switching characters PRINT A SHEET, SCAN A WHOLE ALPHABET • Generate a printable handwriting sheet on US Letter or A4, ruled with your font's own metrics • Write your letters in the printed cells, then scan the pages with your camera • Registration marks align each page automatically, with manual adjustment if one is missed • Review every cell, exclude the ones you want to redo, and import a full alphabet at once PERFECT EVERY CURVE WITH VECTOR NODES • Edit true outlines with anchor points and bezier handles • Switch nodes between corner and smooth, add or delete points • Move, scale, and rotate selections with an on-canvas gizmo or lasso select WEIGHT, SPACING, AND KERNING • One slider makes the whole font lighter or bolder — your strokes stay intact, and reset is one tap away • Set left and right side bearings per letter with a live proof of its neighbors • Kern pairs by dragging letters closer or apart, with suggestions like AV, To, and LT TEST IT BEFORE YOU SHIP IT • The type tester compiles your font and renders live text in it • Type your own sample or use built-in specimens for pangrams, capitals, numerals, punctuation, and kerning • Adjust size and line height, and preview in light or dark IMPORT ARTWORK, OR OPEN A FONT YOU ALREADY HAVE • Bring in PNG or SVG artwork from Photos, Files, the clipboard, or by dragging it onto a letter • Tune ink detection and smoothing to control how artwork is traced • Open TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files to edit, straight from Files, AirDrop, or the share sheet EXPORT REAL FONT FILES • TrueType (.ttf) — the one file most people need; installs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Windows • OpenType CFF (.otf) — for design applications • WOFF — for @font-face on your website • Per-letter SVG files and a printable specimen PDF • Real kerning tables are compiled into the exported font • Export checks catch empty letters, unclosed outlines, and name conflicts, then jump you straight to the fix • Send your font with the share sheet or save it to Files YOUR FONT LIBRARY • Every font shows a live specimen drawn from your own letters • Grid, list, compact, and gallery layouts, favorites, and sorting • Duplicate a font, or duplicate as a variant to build a family • Choose your coverage: capitals, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, accented Latin, and your own custom characters • Set family name, style, PostScript name, version, author, copyright, and license — written into the font itself PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no upload — fonts are compiled entirely on your device • Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on all your devices and works offline • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • Export and import a full backup of your fonts at any time FREE AND PRO Drawing, node editing, importing, weight, spacing, kerning, the type tester, and printing handwriting sheets are free forever. Pro unlocks font export and handwriting scanning, as a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/