How to Create a Font in Adobe Illustrator

We'll learn how to create your own font in Illustrator by planning out our letter set, go over ways to refine the font design and prepare files for use in a font-making program.

This tutorial you'll learn how to make a font. This will prepare you how to make your own font on Illustrator and create simple and fun fonts that can be sold as digital assets on Envato Market. You won't need a font creator plugin for Illustrator here.

What you will learn in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial:
• Designing a font from scratch using your own handwriting
• How to make a custom font using Image Trace
• How to create a font in Illustrator by converting an image into a vector
• How to organise your letters into layers and a grid
• How to refine your letters and symbols using different brushes and tools

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[thisistherun]

Without info on how to convert .svg files into .ttf or .otf, this tutorial was sadly a dead end for me. It was great to follow to make sure all of my letterforms looked uniform, but I was hoping for a little more.

[AAXUB]

Added Value:
02:46 = instead of select white parts one by one just select one of them and go up to the menu select > same > fill color
and you'll have all white parts selected then press delete
I hope this will help

[danielfainstein]

why would you do all this work to remove the background and vectorize the photo, if you trace it with a brush at the end?!?! OO

[farizrizki]

Hi thank you so much for the tutorial, i just curious enough after i save the file as SVG what should i do in order the tracing become a fully funcional custom fonts? i;m still confused by that point. i hope my message will able reach to you.

[buysneaks]

how can I put the .svg data's into my font collection (mac os x)

[niccidotca]

What size (measurements) should the image file be before we move it from Photoshop to Illustrator? Mine is huge in illustrator.

[EkrimaAljaali]

In Imagage trace menue / Advance you cand check (ignore white) that way the programe will not recognize white as a shape that has a fill

[Vineethajojo]

I'm planning to create a font using the pen tool
Do I just expand the type to create my own font ?

[khoStudios]

Ive created all the letters and stuff, but i can't do the image trace for some reason...

[morriscollier]

WHY Dont you REPLY to the issues people who watch your video are having??? Like this one from over a YEAR AGO: "Without info on how to convert .svg files into .ttf or .otf, this tutorial was sadly a dead end for me. It was great to follow to make sure all of my letterforms looked uniform, but I was hoping for a little more." ... it is nice to attempt to help, but ultimately this is NOT a tutorial on creating a font, It is merely one on creating letters for a font.

[avalongmail]

Soo much quicker and easier doing this with Corel Draw. There are just too many steps to do this in illustrator.

[BBI-Brandboost]

This is a really creative and helpful tutorial. There could be many instances where clients would like to have their own unique font. Thanks for sharing.

[umer_IKKIS]

GREAT TUTORIAL I ALWAYS WANTED TO CREATE MY CUSTOM FONTS. THNK YOU <3

[JJadx]

pointless. this is not a font. these are just letters in svg.

[Cam-ufke]

Bout to make the weirdest type face in the world

[shmwmlam]

Well, thats a waste of time. So confusing and why did you do the same thing in different methods over and over yet didn't actually show how to create a working font? Why draw the fonts when you did all that using image trace? What are you actually trying to do here? All you showed us is how to vector the letters.