I googled Font making programs and found a few of them. I am looking at free ones and pay ones that are worth your money. The best way to find that is to ask people who have used them. So please let me know your favorite free and pay Font making programs. I am looking to make my own fonts for Blender and other software since they use the same format. So list programs please and thanks. Let me know which ones are free and which ones are pay. Also how much the pay ones are if possible.
Is there no one who makes there own Fonts?
I looked also. Font fordge is supposed to be good and free but I can not compile or install or what it is you need to do. I could not find one I wanted to try.To much money (for something I may use only once)or did not look good ( many free ones where blockish and do not use curves.
There is a list of font creating software:
http://www.dafont.com/soft.php#3
You can create you fonts in your favorite vector software (inkscape, illustrator, freehand, etc) and import them.
The only free one I know is FontForge: http://fontforge.org
It was only avaible at linux but now it seems there is also a windows and mac version available
Thanks Kazinger PyroGXPilot and OscarM. I have VMWare which allows me to make a Virtual machine of Linux and I can install it on that. The Windows version and Mac require special other software. I will look at the list and things. Thanks again.
Reading through this thread, it seems to me like it would be interesting to try custom font creation sometime (if I need any specific style that’s not in a license that prevents use in Blender or its game engine).
But good grief, the website gives an impression of pages filled with text without much effort to organize everything. Now it might indeed have some nice curve drawing features, but the site design would more or less feed the impression that FOSS is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to a lot of software (even below the quality of the limited free offerings from commercial companies).
So in short, I don’t think the quality of the website is matching what appears to be a decent font tool. (they have the list of bugs and the page owner writes for one of them, ‘I might have fixed this’ on the front page, really, shouldn’t the known issues have its own page and maybe its own tracker?)
BirdFont is a free font editor that lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT & SVG fonts.
Back in the day, I used CorelDraw to make a bunch of font libraries, from handwritten stuff to very structured styles. Not too difficult to create TTF’s with it but obviously CorelDraw does much more than that and the price reflects that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6A8wJROSzA&feature=player_embedded. It says fontforge but it is inkscape.
kazinger. I needed to install cygwin for another thing. I don’t know how far you got with trying to do fonforge. Yet I got it to run another thing that is a linux strictly based. When you install cygwin it does not install everything automaticly it says skip on a lot of things. You click that to have it install. Most it will install automaticly but there are a few you need to specifically click to have it install. I am going to try that now that I have cygwin working. Also I will try all the other install ones and also look at the internet one. If I have options might as well check out all. Thanks again all. kazinger in reference to fontforge. I found it is not worth it. You use cygwin to install the X11 style which is Mac based. Then you need to install and run that program to then finally go to the fontforge folder and open it. In other words not worth it.
You did your homework. Thanks. I think Ill just use inkscape when I get back to work on it. It’s fasts and easy. Im busy animating now. I’d like to see font you make.
tonttu and kazinger both programs save or export to svg. What do you guys use to make it a .ttf or .fon or .ttc? If just online give link but if you also know of a downloadable program let me know that can convert.
Hmm… I’m not sure I understand. Birdfont exports .ttf according to the description. Is this false? I haven’t used it myself.
The version does not seem to. They have more then one license. I suspect another license may but that also may mean you have to pay not sure. I am looking into that now.
UpDate: The free version is supposed to. Its supposed to create three different files with one of those being a .ttf file. I may of not seen it or it may be a bug. I am going to look. I will use inkscape to get it made since that I can do at a quicker pace then import it into birdfont and then I can save it as a .ttf.
Update: It works it can also import an SVG file. So for the best workflow inkscape to create then save as its svg then import into birdfont and use that to get a .ttf file. Birdfont you can make the fonts but it is a little more time consuming not by a ton but enough that I would rather use inkscape for the actually drawing and making and then birdfont to export into a .ttf file.