You can put any image into a font: clip art, logos, handwriting, names, dingbats, symbols,fingerprints, old type, etc - and have it available at a keystroke. ScanFont converts images to vector characters in fonts. It includes bitmap editor, tool to automatically detect character images, powerful autotracer and can communicate with FontLab for Mac or TypeTool for Mac to export both TrueType and Type 1 fonts.
ScanFont 5 works as a plugin for FontLab's outline font editors. You must have TypeTool 3, FontLab Studio 5.0.3 or AsiaFont Studio 5 (or newer) installed in order to create fonts.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Re the review below, not so! Using the fully functional demo, which watermarks half the glyphs, I was able to make a font from an 80s vintage typewriter/printer font, which is very thin and tall. My recommendation is to use a very high quality scan (1200 dpi) and fiddle with the scale once loaded into FontLab. These are simply the two best font creation apps out there for Mac, worth every penny, but wish they were cheaper nonetheless. $50 and I'm yours. A little crashy when exporting from huge (80MB) tiff files, and unable to scan from inside the app.