Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to FontForge
FontForge is a free and open source font editor
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. FontForge launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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FontBase 2.0▲378Update for the super fast, beautiful and free font manager
2017 · fontba.se · its alternatives →
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Your new basic font, use it everywhere, adjust to your needs
2023 · fixel.macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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FontSpark▲379Quickly discover the best fonts for your next design project
2018 · fontspark.app · its alternatives →
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What Font Is▲353Find any font from any image (commercial or free)-WhatFontIs
2019 · whatfontis.com · its alternatives →
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Helping designers find the right font quickly
2015 · rightfontapp.com · its alternatives →
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Font Tester▲280I've been looking for new fonts to use for a new project, but there weren't any great tools for seeing how a particular serif font for headers would look with another sans font for paragraph text, so I built a tool that lets you compare, adjust, and tinker with the way you'd use a font in your specific project before downloading it/setting it up. This is only using the free Google fonts for now. If there are other open-source fonts I should add, let me know and I'll add them!
2024 · font-tester.foxcraft.tech · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge (https://openknowledge.ai/), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and other agents. Available as MacOS app or Web UI+CLI. Fully free/local and OSS. We built this because we wanted a Notion-like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true WYSWIG UI and it didn’t integrate well with Claude/Codex outside of community plugins. So we built OpenKnowledge. It takes…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Typeface▲312Helps you pick the perfect font from your collection
2016 · typefaceapp.com · its alternatives →
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TypeForgeXfree▲6Transform your text with 50+ unique Unicode font styles
Jul 2026 · typeforgex.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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MacDown▲115Open source Markdown editor for OS X influenced by Mou.
2014 · macdown.uranusjr.com · its alternatives →
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Fast, open-source delivery for free, open-source fonts
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turn any lettering into color & vector fonts
2016 · fontself.com · its alternatives →
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