With #FontLab 7.1.4, you can quickly make a Condensed or SemiCondensed font from a Regular font. “Font › Add Variation” duplicates the current master and adds a known axis if you use a known master name. If you add a “Condensed” master, FontLab adds a “Width” axis. Open “Tools › Actions” and preview the action on the content of current Window. Use the “Change width” action, which scales glyphs horizontally but keeps stem thickness. Run the action on the “Current” layer of “All” glyphs. “Change w

All-new #FontLab 8 pro font editor is out at https://fontlab.com/8 with 500 improvements! Download your free 10-day trial for Mac & Windows. Buy at a discount if you’re on FontLab 5/VI/7, Fontographer, TypeTool, Glyphs or RoboFont! Discover the new dark UI theme, adjustable Stroke and Brush sketching, polished drawing and editing, non-destructive transformations with Delta, visual and numeric measurement, glyph building with Skin and variable components, spacing and kerning with mouse and trackp

The Preview panel of #FontLabVI gives you a flexible look at your design changes. Customize the text, sizes, tracking, slant, add a blur to simulate poor vision and (new in FontLab VI 6.0.6) change the foreground and background color. Try FontLab VI at https://fontlab.com/VI | Fontlab

402. Intro to elements. Type design in FontLab 7 with Dave Lawrence