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font.design — a type studio in the browser

Your brand deserves its own letters.

Draw a typeface or start from a professional design space, kern it against real words, and leave with font files that pass the checks browsers run. Nothing to install. Yours to keep.

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Set in Aperture, the typeface we made here

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Nine weights, each with an italic, in two optical sizes — every one a file in the product.Meet Aperture

How it works

Brief to font files, in one file.

  1. 01

    Start from a great base.

    Describe the brand and generate a direction from a professionally drawn design space, import a TTF, OTF or Glyphs file, or open a blank family and draw. Every glyph lands in the same file.

  2. 02

    Draw what only you would.

    A pen tool that adds points exactly on the curve, smooth and corner nodes with mirrored handles, metric guides, full undo, and every change saved with its history.

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  3. 03

    Kern until it sits.

    Click the gap between two letters and nudge it while real words re-set around your change. Classes as well as pairs — and the kerning ships inside the files as real GPOS.

    The pair A · V, from Aperture

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  4. 04

    Ship it everywhere.

    Compiled server-side into TTF, OTF and WOFF2 by the toolchain behind the world's largest font library, checked by the sanitizer browsers run, with a @font-face kit and install guides for Figma, Webflow, Framer and your own site.

    • Aperture-Regular.ttfTTF · GPOS kerning
    • Aperture-Regular.otfOTF · CFF outlines
    • Aperture-Regular.woff2WOFF2 · 80 KB
    • font.css@font-face
    • README.mdInstall guides

    Every export passes OTS, the sanitizer browsers run

    Made with font.design

A typeface is the one part of a brand nobody else can rent. Everything you are reading is set in ours — Aperture, a file in this product like any of yours.

The files

Three kinds of file. One pipeline.

A Direction to find the idea, a Font to draw it, a Specimen to show it. The same outlines carry from the first preview to the export.

The editor

A real editor. Nothing to install.

Bezier points and handles, metric guides and an advance you can trust: the tools a type designer expects, in a browser tab — with the text you care about re-setting live as you draw.

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Edit view — the glyph under edit, in context

Kern

Community

Fonts people made here, open to remix.

Every published font is under the SIL Open Font License. Open one as your own file and take it somewhere new.

Browse the Community

Pricing

Free to design. Pro to ship every format.

Free

$0

No card, no time limit.

  • Full editor, kerning, and Code mode
  • Unlimited directions, one font
  • Web font export — WOFF2 with font.css and install guides
  • Unlimited collaborators
Join the waitlist

Pro14-day trial

$16/ editor / month

$192 per editor, billed yearly. Viewers are free.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited fonts
  • Full export kit — kerned TTF, OTF, and WOFF2
  • Glyphs source import, kerning classes included
  • Viewers free and unlimited
Join the waitlist

Pro is per editor seat — owners, admins, and editors. Viewers are free and unlimited.

A traditional custom typeface is five figures and a few months. This is $20 and an afternoon, and you own the files either way.

Questions

Straight answers.

Who owns the fonts I make?
You do, fully. Your sources and exports are yours; we never claim rights over your work, and you can take everything with you at any time.
What can I import and export?
Import TTF, OTF, and single-file Glyphs sources. Export compiled TTF, OTF, and WOFF2 with a ready-to-paste @font-face kit.
Does kerning really make it into the files?
Yes. Exports are compiled server-side with the same toolchain used for major font libraries, and your pairs ship as real GPOS kerning. Every binary is validated before you download it.
What about AI?
Assistance is coming: generated starting points and help with the tedious parts — completing character sets, tuning spacing. You stay the designer; nothing replaces your judgment.
When can I get in?
We're letting people in from the waitlist in order of signup. Join now and we'll email you when your access is ready.