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There is an outline font editor for the Amiga – sort of. It's our InterFont product. It lets you trace over any bitmap font with outlines of curves, lines and hole polygons. At this time, we can convert these outline-based fonts to 3D objects in any InterChange-supported format, to 2D clip art in Aegis Draw and Pro Draw formats. We're in the process of updating all our products, and one of the features we're considering for InterFont is the ability to save these outline fonts as mono or color bitmap fonts of any size. I'm familiar with Fontographer on the Mac. InterFont is not based on Bezier curves, which means it's not optimal for making Type 1 fonts, for example. It's not a serious type-design program, either. But the prototype for doing this works well, and generates nice looking bitmap fonts at sizes greater than 20-30 pixels.