Draw Fonts vs Glyphiz

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.

Glyphiz is a glyph editor for iPhone and iPad that treats the text you type as individual glyphs and lets you edit and deform the font outlines as vector paths. Beyond ordinary text entry, converting letters to outlines turns the letterforms themselves into free-form vector objects. It's built for design work where the shape of the type is the point — logos, headlines, posters, and title art for social media. ■ Text and Glyph, kept separate Every character in a string is managed as its own object. Adjust font, size, tracking and vertical writing, then convert to outlines to get vector "Glyphs." From that point on the artwork no longer depends on the original font — it is rebuilt from the stored paths. ■ Edit Bézier paths directly Drag anchor points and control handles to reshape a letter's outline. Add and remove anchors, and marquee-select a run of anchors to move them together. ■ Non-destructive deforms Wave, Arc and Random deforms are stored as parameters you can re-tune at any time. Random keeps its seed, so reopening a project reproduces exactly the same result. Move, scale, rotate and angle are non-destructive too. ■ Layers, canvas, background Add, delete, duplicate, reorder, show/hide and lock layers. Canvas presets cover A0–A7, B0–B7, circular, and a free size in millimetres. Backgrounds can be transparent, solid, gradient or image; transparent shows a checkerboard in the editor and exports as genuinely transparent PNG. ■ Color Solid fills plus Linear, Radial and Angular gradients, with editable colors, positions and angle. ■ Placing images Import a photo from your library and place it on the canvas. Move, scale and rotate it (Glyphiz does not edit the image itself — no color correction, cropping, and so on). ■ Export - PNG (1x / 2x / 3x, transparency supported) - JPG (1x / 2x / 3x) - Vector PDF (glyphs are exported as paths, not rasterized — ideal for high-resolution print) Projects are saved on device in the app's own ".glyphiz" format (JSON-based) and stay fully re-editable. ■ Gestures One-finger drag to select and move, two-finger drag to pan the canvas, pinch to zoom, two-finger rotate to rotate, tap to select, long-press for a context menu. Undo / Redo included. ■ Privacy No sign-in, no account. All project data is stored on your device and is never sent to an external server. The core editing features work offline. Note: this app displays ads.