: How to create a font for free using web tools? I realize this is an unfortunately vague question. I happen to be working with a designer with really awesome lettering skills, and we were hoping
I realize this is an unfortunately vague question. I happen to be working with a designer with really awesome lettering skills, and we were hoping to create a couple fonts in .otf files. We are at a bit of a loss at how to go about doing this nicely.
The fonts created using www.myscriptfont.com really aren't rendering nicely in print, and we were wondering if there is a better way to do this.
(If possible, we would like to use free software - we're already paying a lot for printing and other fees.)
Thank you so much.
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If you want a web tool, I don't believe such a thing exists. There are some free software options, though.
There is FontForge, but the last time I tried using it was beyond frustrating. I could not get it to run for very long without crashing (and tried across many different operating systems). It's even addressed in the FAQ:
Why is FontForge so unstable?
I don't bother much with doing QA. This is a problem. I don't enjoy doing it, and no one is paying me to do it, so little gets done.
Another is called BirdFont, but I have not yet tried it so I can't give you a personal seal of approval.
There is a lot of careful designing that needs to go into font creation, so I think you'll be hard pressed to find an automated solution that will produce a nice looking font. The tool you linked and any like it are like the "CafePress" of font creation: don't expect polished results.
If you're already comfortable designing things in vector, then you've got a good head start for designing a font, but there are many other behind-the-scenes metrics that you'll need to get comfortable with (see diagram below)
Source: Max Naylor
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