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03-08-2018, 06:54 PM | #1 |
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Advice on hand-rendered fonts/lettering
Could someone direct me to information on how to create fonts by hand? I don't even need a fully functional font alphabet, but just a few letters for a custom logo. I'd like advice on using grids, proper spacing, and variations in thickness. The couple times I've tried creating letters in the past, I loved the loose sketches, but when trying to perfect and vectorize them, they often look stiff, imbalanced, or just strange.
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03-09-2018, 01:23 PM | #2 |
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I knew that I knew of font creation/editing software but I couldn't bring it to mind so I did a forum search (searching on: create font) and found a thread from 2009 "Inexpensive Font Creation - Mac" which mentions 2 font creation tools and a thread from 2007 "BitFonter 3 (Mac, Windows)" which also might be useful--all 3 listed below are (now) part of FontLab and links below are to the specific software:
1. TypeTool -- mac and win versions and not too pricey at $47.99 and describes itself as "Value priced font editor for light users. Version 3.1 for Mac and Windows." 2. Fontlab - mac and win versions and quite a bit pricier at $408.99. 3. BitFonter - mac and win versions, $149... Hope that gets you started...'-}} Terrie |
03-09-2018, 01:55 PM | #3 |
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Did a bit more digging around in hopes of remembering the name of the font software I mentioned in my last post which was unsuccessful but doing a browser search (searching on: font creation software) and found the following--in no particular order:
1. Fontself - need Illustrator 2. I Love Typography articles on font creation 3. Free font editors, creation software - brief descriptions with links Terrie |
03-10-2018, 01:33 PM | #4 |
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__________________ Steve Rindsberg ==================== www.pptfaq.com www.pptools.com and stuff |
03-12-2018, 08:18 AM | #5 |
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I don't know how good they are, but there are free online utilities for this. You could try this first.
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03-12-2018, 09:27 AM | #6 |
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Or FontForge, at least it's free: http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
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03-12-2018, 11:43 AM | #7 | |
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03-13-2018, 06:14 AM | #8 |
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>> That's not the one I can't remember the name of.
I had a snappy reply to that but you went and spoiled it by providing more evidence than just the name. That you can't remember. ;-) __________________ Steve Rindsberg ==================== www.pptfaq.com www.pptools.com and stuff |
03-13-2018, 12:57 PM | #9 | |
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I would work in Illustrator (or its like) and start with a typefaces that was close to what I envisioned. Convert name to outlines and tweek to your heart's content. When building a logo, the letter forms only have to work with each other in the combinations used in the name—much simpler than trying to build a font, where they have to work in a myriad of combinations. __________________ --don |
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03-13-2018, 03:01 PM | #10 | |
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