FFSMC Crea Pol Lab — Studio Edition

Studio Edition — The Complete Edition on three computers: the workshop computer, the laptop and the one at home, or three people in the same small team.

The workshop: your own font

Give the workshop a few letters: an old poster, a plate, hand-drawn lettering, or your own drawings made in Illustrator. Every letter read clearly joins the font. The missing letters, figures, accents and signs are then drawn from the nearest font and adapted to your lettering: same stroke weight, same width, same spacing.

Each letter can be retouched by hand, with the brush or the sliders. The font is saved as OpenType (.otf) or TrueType (.ttf) under the name you choose, and installed in Windows with one click. It works in Word, Illustrator, embroidery and cutting software, like any other font. The workshop also makes single-stroke fonts, ideal for machines that write with a pen, and saves the WOFF2 version for websites on request.

Your own handwriting

Print the grid supplied, write one letter per box with a felt-tip pen, then scan or photograph the pages: your handwriting becomes a font. Any characters left out are completed for you.

Find the name of a font

A shop sign, a poster, a logo, a label: open the photo, scan or PDF, and Crea Pol Lab reads each line of text, then compares it with every font on your computer. The nearest ones are shown with their likeness as a percentage. Under each suggested font, your text is written in it: the right one jumps out. A photo taken at an angle is straightened with one click before reading, and a font seen on a website or in a video is captured straight from the screen.

If the font is not on your computer, the software searches the free, open-licence fonts of the Web and saves the one you pick to your font folder, with a note of its licence.

A font library in order at last

Point it at your font folder, even one holding thousands of fonts: the list fills up in seconds. See them all at a glance on a sheet, written with your own words. Sort them by style, weight or character (€, ß, ł…), mark your favourites, gather them into collections, compare two side by side and print a PDF specimen sheet. Activate a font or a whole collection in Windows without copying anything, remove it with one click. The check finds duplicates, broken files and fonts without French accents.

Text to curves

Text typed in the font of your choice is saved as SVG, ready for Illustrator, Inkscape or your cutting machine, without the font being installed on the other computer.

For everyone who loves letters

Model makers redoing a marking, embroiderers, scrapbookers, graphic designers, clubs or shopkeepers bringing back an original sign: Christophe Queyroi developed Crea Pol Lab so that finding or recreating a font no longer calls for any special knowledge. The software speaks French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish and Portuguese, and its illustrated manual takes you by the hand from the first page. A guided tour at first start, help bubbles on every button and examples supplied with it let you try everything without preparing anything.

Free trial, lifetime licence

Download the software below: it works for 7 days with all its functions. The licence is then bought once and for all, with a year of updates included. You move up to a higher edition by paying only the difference. Digitally signed software for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit).