How to Make Fonts - Tutorials to Create Fonts
Whether it's your first time or your thirtieth, learn the basics and the nitty-gritty details to help create fonts. Get digitial type design tips and tutorials and help with making your own fonts for personal use or to sell.
Chank - How to Make Your Own Fonts
Chank Diesel explains his own method of making fonts. Includes software recommendations, drawing and scanning tips, and illustrations.
Chank Diesel explains his own method of making fonts. Includes software recommendations, drawing and scanning tips, and illustrations.
Combine and Weld with CorelDRAW or Other Vector Graphics Software
Learn how to combine multiple objects into one object, a necessary task for fonts and other graphics projects. Specific commands apply to CorelDRAW 7 but the techniques can apply to other similar drawing programs as well.
Learn how to combine multiple objects into one object, a necessary task for fonts and other graphics projects. Specific commands apply to CorelDRAW 7 but the techniques can apply to other similar drawing programs as well.
Cool Fonts - How Do You Create Fonts
Cool Fonts tutorial offers basic steps for creating original fonts or modifying existing fonts. (Seriously messed up layout with tiny column of text when I visited last, but still readable.)
Cool Fonts tutorial offers basic steps for creating original fonts or modifying existing fonts. (Seriously messed up layout with tiny column of text when I visited last, but still readable.)
Corel Designer.com - Node Editing: The Basics
If using CorelDRAW to make fonts, node editing is an important task to be mastered. Get the basics here.
If using CorelDRAW to make fonts, node editing is an important task to be mastered. Get the basics here.
Divide by Zero - How to Font
[Divide by Zero] Fonts has an illustrated tutorial showing basic font creation with Fontographer.
[Divide by Zero] Fonts has an illustrated tutorial showing basic font creation with Fontographer.
Divide by Zero - No Words
A series of images without captions show some of the font making steps.
A series of images without captions show some of the font making steps.
Foam Train Fonts, The - Font Making How-To
Outlines 8 steps based on the use of Fontographer.
Outlines 8 steps based on the use of Fontographer.
Font Magazine - On Designing Fonts
Jonathon Barnbrook describes his approach to designing typefaces and includes comments on the evolution of some of his typeface designs.
Jonathon Barnbrook describes his approach to designing typefaces and includes comments on the evolution of some of his typeface designs.
Goudy Center - Name that Font
Goudy Center Typeface Database helps designers in choosing a unique name for their typeface.
Goudy Center Typeface Database helps designers in choosing a unique name for their typeface.
Huntington Library - Making Type by Hand
This history lesson gives today's digital designers a peek at how type design has changed.
This history lesson gives today's digital designers a peek at how type design has changed.
Laura McCanna - Designing Type with CorelDRAW
Laurie McCanna's tips on using CorelDRAW to make typefaces.
Laurie McCanna's tips on using CorelDRAW to make typefaces.
Laura McCanna - How to make type
Laurie Mccanna's tips on creating your own digital type.
Laurie Mccanna's tips on creating your own digital type.
Macromedia - Fontographer Tech Notes and Tip of the Day
Get answers to your technical questions on using Fontographer.
Get answers to your technical questions on using Fontographer.
Microsoft - Make fonts like the Adobe 'Pros'
"Shows how to add Adobe InDesign supported OpenType features to TrueType fonts using our VOLT tool."
"Shows how to add Adobe InDesign supported OpenType features to TrueType fonts using our VOLT tool."
My First Font - How to Make Your Own Font
Learn how to use Font Creator from High Logic to make your own fonts. This step-by-step tutorial starts with creating a template and shows you what settings to use in the program.
Learn how to use Font Creator from High Logic to make your own fonts. This step-by-step tutorial starts with creating a template and shows you what settings to use in the program.
SiteSource - Font Making Made Easy
They say "everyone uses Fontographer," which might not be exactly true but this article offers an overview of the font-making process.
They say "everyone uses Fontographer," which might not be exactly true but this article offers an overview of the font-making process.
Type by Design - The Art and Science of Digital Typeface Design
Although the site is in Italian, the 16 PDF files on designing type are in English. Chapters include Creating a Typeface, Page Sizes and Proportion, and Typographic Wisdom.
Although the site is in Italian, the 16 PDF files on designing type are in English. Chapters include Creating a Typeface, Page Sizes and Proportion, and Typographic Wisdom.
TypeArt - Type Design Tips 1996
These are all the 1996 design tips from TypeArt. Kerning, letter construction, width flaws, testing, and more.
These are all the 1996 design tips from TypeArt. Kerning, letter construction, width flaws, testing, and more.
TypeArt - Type Design Tips 1997
More tips on kerning and creating accent characters, from TypeArt.
More tips on kerning and creating accent characters, from TypeArt.
Typeworkshop: Type-Basics by Underware
View 19 sketches depicting some key basic areas of concern for type designers including spacing, proportions, x-heights, digitizing, and ligatures.
View 19 sketches depicting some key basic areas of concern for type designers including spacing, proportions, x-heights, digitizing, and ligatures.