How to make your own fonts?

**PCRIDE** · 04-30-2003, 01:35 AM

I have allways wondered how to make a font, is it a program? do you create the font and just give it a font extenison??
Thksn
PCRIDE

**kemie** · 05-01-2003, 09:09 AM

you need a special program, such as fontographer, fontlab, the font creator program, or softy (you can google for them). CorelDraw also lets you export as a font, but its quite limited.

**FFF** · 05-01-2003, 02:07 PM

Fontographer:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fontographer/

Fontlab:
http://www.fontlab.com/

**Ex-Ess** · 05-12-2003, 05:08 AM

Anyone know of a good guide to making pixel fonts though???

I can't find one anywhere!

**BlueSamurai** · 05-15-2003, 12:51 PM

I am really wanting to make my own fonts, I just don't know where to start. Wich program is used to make and design fonts? And is there any resource thats explains the process?

Need some help, THANKS.

-BS

Also, please don't move this to the fonts forum......my questions hardly get answered there

**sense** · 05-15-2003, 01:40 PM

i developed one some time ago, it's quite a job.

i used illustrator and MM fontographer for it.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/fontographer/

**BlueSamurai** · 05-15-2003, 01:41 PM

I I figured it would be alot of work. Do you have to have a special program like fontographer to make your own fonts?

**CDP-Design** · 05-15-2003, 02:35 PM

yes u need to have a special program like fontographer to be able to convert the letters to a font format.

**TallGuyLittleCar** · 05-15-2003, 05:48 PM

you will need a special program to make your own fonts. There are a few shareware progs that can do it.

http://www.websitetips.com/fonts/programs.shtml

has links to the shareware programs

**BlueSamurai** · 05-15-2003, 07:05 PM

Thanks aton TGLC! some pretty nifty programs there

**sense** · 05-16-2003, 04:56 AM

ok, that's a nice list but i also did experiment with the other not so familiar programs and found out the only 'real' thing is MM fontographer.

has the clearest interface, works most efficient AND let's you import .eps files wich the others won't!!!

gl

**kemie** · 05-16-2003, 08:07 AM

http://www.atomicmedia.net/make.php

**Ex-Ess** · 05-16-2003, 02:02 PM

Yeah I found that link all over the place but it doesn't exist any more.

Any others?

**toony** · 05-17-2003, 04:10 AM

I made a font in CorelDraw, well not a family of fonts. I just exported a logo I had done in to a font (ttf).

Dono what else it can do if it can do the whole alphabet.

**wouter999** · 05-17-2003, 12:05 PM

Also try Fontlab, a new kid on the block but definitely a good piece of software!

**Black_phoenix** · 05-17-2003, 05:52 PM

moved to fonts forum, u will get some more help there

bp

**Ex-Ess** · 05-19-2003, 12:10 PM

will MM Fontographer allow you to make pixel fonts? If so does anybody know what the basic rules are?

**Frets** · 05-20-2003, 03:43 AM

What separates pixel fonts from other fonts?
Pixels. you have to fill in specific pixels
there is no over brush.

You have to work within the range.

Also you'll need to output to a standard type font
TTF
Bitmap fonts aren't recognized in many programs.
Hence won't work in them.

Frets

**kemie** · 05-20-2003, 03:00 PM

it was originally posted in http://www.ultrashock.com/ you should still be able to find it there

**Frets** · 05-21-2003, 02:14 AM

This is really redundant.

Especially when there are only three threads for the day.
and two are on the same subject.

Thread merged.
Frets

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