Sim onson, S teve Z afa ran a, H ra nt Pa pa zian ,S amm y O r, Ja Ī lso, th anks to Th om as P hin ney, Stuart Sand ler, M ark Petn ro, L isa D evlin, and the Fon tLab team. Written and D esigned byLeslie CabargaTechn ica l Ed ito r :Īdam TwardochThanks to Ted H arrison, Yuri Yarm ola, Sasha I know there are tons of font creation tools out there, but for what its worth I think Glyphs app is one of the best at the moment.Learn FONTLAB Fas tA Simplified Guide to Creating FontswithįontLab, TypeTool, ScanFont and AsiaFont Studio Great online tool, loads of features but it's more of a toy than a proper tool. I still need to play with this more but it looks like it might get my vote. Nice easy to use interface and some very useful tools such as generating accented glyphs for you, saving you a hell of a lot of time. Seems like its the new kid on the block and it looks great. Marketed as the The font editor for everyone Glyphs App really impressed me. Fontlab seems to have the edge on Fontographer The interface is slightly better than Fontographer but the main reason for using it is that it tells me when it runs into problems and with what glyph, so I can fix and export. I've made the transition from Fontographer to FontLab, much better at detecting problems with fonts.
I had to import into Fontlab to find and fix issues with glyphs. Rather than tell me what the problem was the software just let me export with errors? weird. It also seems to have a lot of bugs, I've exported my typeface only to find out the kerning was all messed up and the font wouldn't install. This was my tool of choice, I created my Airbag typeface with Fontographer - fantastic features and relatively easy to use, however it seems to have stood still. Having said that I really should start to draw in the font package itself, it's just really hard to break away from illustrator as I've been using it for so many years. So I'm not really going to explore what the following tools offer in terms of drawing, its just the converting and other tools that I'm interested in. Here are the best tools I've found that make the process of creating your own font a bit less painless, hopefully.First off I have to say I create all my vectors in illustrator, I like it, its my drawing tool of choice. The software can be a real challenge to get to grips with, so it's important you choose the right one.
You draw, you scan, you clean up the scans, you convert them to vectors and then what? You then need a software package to convert your drawings into a fully fledged typeface. Creating your own typeface can be a real ball ache.
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