Admittedly, most font software out there are 300 USD and above, what are some of your favorites and why?

I myself am testingout BirdFont, the commercial version. There seems to be a strobing effect inside the program and it looks annoying.

There isn't a clear way to save the projects as OTF or TTF as there is in Glyph.




Thanks.

Say I use a Font that doesn't have permission to be used commercially, and in some cases has to be paid for or isn't available at all.

Say I put them in a Vector software and convert it to curves and modify the font heavily where it's no longer recognizable as the original font, does the new font count as my creation even though I'm working off of the base of the original one that isn't mine?


And at what point is there enough modification to count it exclusively as your own creation? What if you create a font from scratch using a font creation software and by some small slim chance, someone out there has a font a bit similar to yours? What then?


Thanks.