I found this on the font forge site.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/importexample.html
Some people have mentioned that one can do font creation with Inkscape and fontforge... I know the tut would probably be huge... but my google-fu and other searching has failed me... so would someone who knows anything about this be willing to explain?
And yes I've tried plodding through it on my own... and I'm quite lost...
I found this on the font forge site.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/importexample.html
Ooo, now I gotta get Font Forge Thanks, man.
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I think that would throw most of us out I'm not averse to using a pattern here n there but I tried making a font twice; my handwriting is illegible to begin with so that one died and never got past the letter F on the second one. That would be an awesome challenge, though.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Whoa... there's an Open Source Font Maker? How did I not learn this when I was looking for.... An Open Source Font Maker? My google-fu is weak
But now that this knowledge has been revealed to me, how wonderful it is!
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Pimping my worldmap here. Still WIP... long way to go, but I'm pretty proud of what I've done so far...
Here is another one
http://www.cr8software.net/typelight.html
anotehr web based one (need to sign up to use)
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructor/edit/211721
maybe we should start a thread in the software forum
Last edited by WidowMakers; 08-10-2009 at 08:11 PM.