Font Creation...

[Dalisca]

Hey there... I was wondering if anyone here has experience creating fonts. What font creation programs would you recommend? Is there a way to do it in Illustrator? Thanks so much!!!

[rinaldidesigns]

hello....
fontographer, its been around forever......you could create fonts in illustrator *BUT* it would be a tremendous amount of work.....
http://www.download.com/Fontographer...-10541042.html

[Dalisca]

hello....
fontographer, its been around forever......you could create fonts in illustrator *BUT* it would be a tremendous amount of work.....
http://www.download.com/Fontographer...-10541042.html

Ah, thanks! My Mac hasn't arrived yet, but I will certainly keep that in mind when it does. Just to satisfy my own curiousity of the "hard way", how would one create fonts in Illustrator, anyway?

[rinaldidesigns]

with the pen tool....you can always start with a base font, like arial, create outlines and use your pen tool to refine/add points.......the pen tool is illustrators powerful weapon!

[Dalisca]

with the pen tool....you can always start with a base font, like arial, create outlines and use your pen tool to refine/add points.......the pen tool is illustrators powerful weapon!

No, I mean... How do you get it from the point of being a vector shape to being a font?

[rinaldidesigns]

you WILL need a program that converts the vector file into a recognizable font file, fontagrapher...

http://www.cool-fonts.com/html/howto.html
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Adobe-Ill.../font-face.htm

fontographer is made for both mac/windows , you can download a free demo here, I had it years ago, it has quite a learning curve to use

http://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontographer/

[Dalisca]

Oh, thank you very very much!

I will definitey have to check that out then. You rock!

[ru7mka]

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