Font Studio: Font Engineer
Ahmed Nader Graphics & Design iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Font Studio: Font Engineer is a free Graphics & Design app for iPhone and iPad by Ahmed Nader. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 30, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 107 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 30
- 2026 · v1.8.2
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About Font Studio: Font Engineer
Font Studio: Font Editor A professional font toolkit for creating, editing, inspecting, composing, repairing and converting fonts — entirely on-device. Font Studio brings real font engineering tools to iPhone and iPad. Work directly with your fonts without sending files to a server or relying on a desktop computer. CREATE AND EDIT FONTS Build and refine fonts with professional vector tools. • Design glyphs with Bézier paths • Draw and edit vector outlines • Transform, duplicate and flip glyphs • Inspect individual glyph structures • Create new fonts from scratch • Import and work with existing typefaces WORK WITH GLYPHS Explore and manage the characters inside your fonts. • Browse glyphs visually • Search Unicode characters • Inspect glyph mappings • Remove unwanted glyphs • Replace glyphs • Subset fonts by character coverage • Compare glyphs and font coverage PERFECT TYPOGRAPHY Fine-tune the details that make type look right. • Edit glyph metrics • Adjust advance widths • Fine-tune spacing • Edit kerning • Preview typography with real font rendering • Compare changes against the original • Test custom text, paragraphs and specimens COMPOSE FONTS Combine typefaces while keeping control over what gets added. • Compare source and destination fonts • Find missing characters • Resolve glyph conflicts • Choose which glyph to keep • Compose new font files • Handle composite glyph dependencies • Review changes before building the result VARIABLE FONT TOOLS Work with variable font technology directly on your device. • Inspect variable axes • Work with multiple font masters • Build variable fonts from compatible masters • Configure axes and instances • Preview variable font output • Export production-ready font files INSPECT OPENTYPE Go beyond the visible glyphs. Inspect: • GSUB • GPOS • GDEF • kern • cmap • glyf • gvar • hmtx • name • OS/2 • STAT • fvar • MVAR • and other font tables View scripts, lookups, feature information, metrics, coverage and technical metadata. REPAIR AND OPTIMIZE Analyze your fonts before they reach production. • Detect font health issues • Inspect warnings and diagnostics • Clean problematic outlines • Optimize font structure • Review technical findings • Re-analyze after changes CONVERT AND EXPORT Work with common font formats on-device. • TTF • OTF • WOFF • WOFF2 Convert, process and export your fonts without uploading them to a remote service. FONT PREVIEW Test your typeface before exporting it. Use: • Type preview • Paragraph preview • Specimen preview • Glyph preview • Custom text • Typography metrics • Spacing and kerning • Variable font axes BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD Font Studio is designed as a real font workspace rather than a simplified desktop companion. Use it on iPhone for focused font work, or take advantage of the larger iPad workspace for detailed editing, inspection and typography. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your font files can stay on your device. Font processing is performed locally, so you can work with your typefaces without needing to upload them to a cloud font-processing service. Create. Edit. Engineer. Perfect. Font Studio by Podzi.
What’s new
Version 1.8.2 · Updated October 30, 2026
Glyph Designer & Handwriting Creation - Letter Shadow Watermark: display a faint, proportional watermark template of the active character directly on the canvas to guide optical proportions, stem weights, and styling. - Onion Skin Across All Modes: reference the previously drawn glyph in Draw, Pen, and Edit modes to maintain consistent slant, height, and rhythm. - Live Canvas Brush Preview: real-time brush circle preview directly on the canvas drawing area at actual scale, with exact font-unit size readout while adjusting brush settings. - Continuous Lettering Workflow: Draw mode and brush settings persist across glyph navigation for seamless, uninterrupted font making. - Instant Undo & Redo: dedicated undo/redo buttons in contextual toolbars across all modes with immediate reactive history updates. - Natural Alphabetical Sequence: letter strips and font wizard rows are now ordered in standard alphabetical order (A-Z, a-z, 0-9). Type Engineering & Precision Tools - Class-Based Kerning Matrix: 2D heatmap grid, smart auto-grouping by shape similarity, negative value support, and compact GPOS Format 2 compression. - Vertical Metrics Harmonization: 1-click audit and resolution of line clipping across Windows GDI/DirectWrite, macOS CoreText, and Web CSS. - OpenType Auto-Feature Generator: 1-click automatic synthesis of standard OpenType features (liga, dlig, smcp, c2sc, onum, tnum, pnum, frac, ordn, case, locl), plus direct AFDKO FEA code editing. - Outline QA & Fix Extrema: automated detection of missing extrema and inflections with 1-click automatic on-curve extrema insertion. - Live Metrics HUD & Spacing Ribbons: real-time LSB/RSB nudging, customizable word proofing ribbons, and cursive ribbon for Arabic and connected scripts.
App privacy
The developer, Ahmed Nader, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Customer Support, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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