![]() ![]() There are no hard and fast rules for this process - it simply boils down to experience and what looks right to you. This is when the real work of creating a font begins: go through the alphabet and fine-tune the placement and outline shape of each character. Once you’ve found the right percentage, select the rest of the letters and scale them the same amount.Īt this point, the letters you’ve pasted in probably look rather lumpy and unsightly, and are sitting in all sorts of weird locations in their windows. Use Element > Transform (command-\) to scale one letter so that it fits between the topline and baseline (we usually use E since it has strong top and bottom lines). While working, we usually have three windows open: the database of characters (left), an editing window (right), and a kerning window (bottom) to see how each character looks in relation to the others. Select each letter, Cut (command-x) and Paste (command-v) it into its appropriate box. Then open Fontographer, create a new document, select a letter and choose File > Import > EPS.) If this happens, save your Illustrator file as EPS in the earliest version it will allow (in v10, you can save as far back as v3, in CS2, v8 is the earliest it goes). (On occasion, this method doesn’t work properly, and the characters get pasted in as a gray bitmap template instead of vector outlines. That will put all of the characters into that letter box. Double-click a letter box to open it, and select Edit > Paste (command-v). Open Fontographer and select File > New (command-n). Select those characters, and Copy (command-c). Collect two alphabets of letters A-Z, plus punctuation and numbers. Open the traced file in Adobe Illustrator. (note: this feature is now built into Adobe Illustrator as “live trace”) Choose Image > Mode > Bitmap (50% threshold) and save as TIFF.Īutotrace this file using Adobe Streamline (now built into Illustrator as “Live Trace”) - this converts the pixel data to vector outlines. Select Image > Adjustments > Brightness/ Contrast, slide “Contrast” all the way to the right to make it pure black and white, and adjust “Brightness” until the letters look balanced. Scan your letters in grayscale mode, at 300 dpi or higher. Since we’re so excited, we thought we’d bring you a tutorial that’s been requested from us for nearly that long - an overview of our lettering font creation process! ![]() If Fontographer’s $349 price tag is too much, FontLab has a $99 editor called TypeTool for Mac and Windows, that can do most, if not all, of the same functions. A step-by-step overview of the font creation process in Fontographer.Īt long last! After a decade sitting on a dusty shelf somewhere at Macromedia, our favorite font creator Fontographer has finally been updated! The folks at Fontlab have just released Fontographer for OSX, and it’s every bit as good as the original. ![]()
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