Fellow Typographers,
Might anyone be aware of a freeware font creation program that I can download onto my mac?
Also interested to see peoples own creations . . . .
Might anyone be aware of a freeware font creation program that I can download onto my mac?
Also interested to see peoples own creations . . . .
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Unsu...
Re: Font Creation
Sun, October 24, 2004 - 5:14 AMSorry, as far as I know there are only commercial type creation programs. -
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Re: Font Creation
Sun, October 24, 2004 - 12:31 PMThank you Mr. Diggets,
Nice website by the way. Congradulations on the new ninja addition to the family.
Regards,
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Unsu...
Re: Font Creation
Mon, May 16, 2005 - 9:12 AMi am interested in the same thing sebastian. i would like to play around with font creation a bit, before buying any software...
i used to modify individual letters using illustrator and freehand all the time when doing logo design. how does font creation work? what is the magic that happens between me creating a letter style, and it becoming part of a font set? how do i get from there (a "shape", then presumably a series of 26 shapes), to a program that makes the correct shape appear when i hit it on my keyboard?
christopher
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http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
Tue, May 17, 2005 - 12:09 PMI'm an old fontographer user, but as I will be switching to os X soon I have been looking for alternatives.
Has anyone used:
fontforge.sourceforge.net/
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Re: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
Sun, June 5, 2005 - 5:00 PMValentine,
Font Lab seems to me to be the easiest to use. I have used Fontographer in the past with no real luck. When I started using "Font Lab" it started to click.
check it out:
www.fontlab.com/Font-utili...b-Products/
These are trials but will give you and everyone else a good idea.
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