Font Creator for Adobe IllustratorFont Creator for Adobe Illustrator

Creating custom fonts has always meant working across a patchwork of tools. A designer draws letterforms in Illustrator, exports them path by path, imports into specialised font editing software, manually adjusts metrics and coordinate systems, corrects path winding directions, and finally compiles the font file. The process was slow, error-prone, and deeply frustrating — especially for lettering artists and brand designers who needed custom typefaces efficiently. The market lacked an affordable, tightly integrated solution that respected the designer's existing workflow.

We built a CEP extension that embeds directly into Illustrator as a native panel, matching the application's dark theme so it feels built-in rather than bolted on. Under the hood, a sophisticated pipeline handles the heavy lifting: path extraction reads vectors directly from selected artwork via ExtendScript, a coordinate transform layer translates Illustrator's coordinate system into font space, winding correction automatically resolves path directions for proper fill rendering, and the glyph building engine constructs standards-compliant paths using opentype.js. The result: select your artwork, assign it to characters, preview your typeface in real time, and export a professional OTF file. Draw, assign, preview, export.