I spoke yesterday with Gerry Leonidis whos runs the Type Design course
at Reading University for the last 10 years. His pupils first use
pencil and paper for 10 weeks then go on to Fontographer and before
they go eventually to Fontlab. This is precisely because of Fogs easy
to use interface.

and his pupils --- In fontographer@yahoogroups.com, Fox Creek Printing
<dyegang@...> wrote:
>
> I've got FontLab--it's great, but Fontographer doesn't
> really exist, right? So there won't be improvements to
> that software--I thought that was the email's list of
> things needed (like making OpenType).
>
> --- Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:
>
> > On 14 Jan 2009, at 14:40, Fox Creek Printing wrote:
> > > Fontographer is gone. FontLab ate it up.
> > >
> > Not at all true! FontLab bought it. And they've made
> > an update
> > available (for Mac anyway) and I use it all the
> > time. I agree with
> > Gary... Fontographer's drawing tools are excellent.
> >
> > I also use FontLab, to process the fonts, and
> > sometimes for minor
> > kinds of editing. But for major drawing,
> > Fontographer's my mainstay.
> >
> > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
> >
> >
>
>
> p: 864-233-8646
> www.foxcreekprinting.com
>