7 WAYS to START MAKING your own FONTS!

7 Ways to start making your own Fonts

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[silkeschumann]

Yes, you missed fontForge, which can import SVG files, has a vector design for drawing curves inbuilt and all the bells you need for ligatures. For a free program it is very impressive. I personally prefer the import over drawing within fontForge. When using the import function it is advisable to use the final font space with gaps before and after. It is much easier to adjust any scale, heights, width and position etc in a vector program than it is in fontForge.

[Tjk]

Fontforge is great. Its free and open source and isnt very difficult to learn while being extremely powerful. Would definitely recommend it, especially because you can import svgs or bitmaps to create fonts as well, so I just create all of my characters in inkscape (another extremely powerful free and open source program for vector graphics which is a great alternative to illustrator).

[FaizanScribe]

Ian, You are an amazing artist and human being. Thanks for sharing.

[johnmutch]

I really like how direct and informational this video is! Thanks for sharing!

[mcriero]

Dude i didn’t know Keith from the try guys had a twin... craaaazy

[touiteuragil]

Thanks for this, I am using Procreate on iPad and would like to add my own fonts to it. This is a pretty good scope of possibilities for the beginner that I am.

[amarachinwauwa]

I came here to get some advice and ended up finding an easier way to draw the letter "S'. Thank you so much for sharing!

[serjsolarpunk]

Amazing Video - So many options. nice to be able to skim through whats around at the moment before diving in

[SUAlpha]

Loved the way you share information and knowledge on this subject. Thank you so much! Liked and subbed👍👍👍

[yeloultsidkfitsum]

Thank you so much!! I don’t care if i am not gona use any of what you have mentioned. You sharing information has already made me satisfied.🤗

[Bulk-like]

I made a font on fontstruct for university which I mean to develop further. But I also wish to sell the font and was wondering how would I start?

[johndeggendorf]

Incredibly helpful information. Thanks for covering this.

[mohammadj.jaradat]

Thank you Ian for the video. Is there a way to open existing TTF files and then modifying it?

[SpectralightPhoto]

Ian - great video and right to the point. Do you have a video talking about how you market and sell your fonts?

My wife designed a font 40 years ago of a bunny in different poses for each letter of the alphabet. I need to scan each letter and use one of the programs you mentioned to digitize them and make them keyboard ready.

[MrRodriguezAdam]

There’s a sketch app plugin as well! Don’t know if you’ve ever used sketch but it’s really nice!

[tobyhallam]

nice job Ian. I wish more videos were as "to the point" as this is. thanks

[kstny]

THANKS!...u answered a weeks worth of questions and searching in 5 minutes!... :)

[muzaffarhtwaha]

Thanx alot i really wana make fonts...so i found this video so useful and am giving you a follow so maybe i can learn more

[Majed_ashraf]

Is there anyway to make cursive fonts where letter are joined to eachother

[AdamGreasley]

Nice. I’m a big fan of glyphs 🙌 and Fontself is pretty cool too.