What is FONTastic 2.x?

More than a hundred fonts are available commercially and in the public domain. But haven't you ever wished that the special symbols in one font were available in a different font? Or that the italic or bold versions of your favorite fonts looked better? Or that you could have a tall orfat display version of one of your favorite fonts? Perhaps your work requires special characters missing from the Macintosh's fonts. With FONTastic, a font editing program from Altsys Corporation, you can modify fonts to fit your needs.

The Macintosh's Font Mover lets you move fonts in and out of the System file with a few mouse clicks. Until recently, however, modifying a font—adding characters or changing the appearance of existing ones-required Apple's Resource Editor (ResEd), a complex and occasionally unreliable program.

With Altsys Corporation’s FONTastic you can move characters from one font to another to create a custom font containing all the special characters you frequently use, or you can convert an entire font to an italicized version by slanting letters to the right. You can even create new fonts by stretching and squeezing existing ones.

Eckhardt, Robert C. (December 1985). The Mac Font Shuffle. Macworld. (pgs. 96, 98).

Download FONTastic 2.x for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac