How To Make Your Own Font
Creating your own font sounds difficult. In reality, it isn’t. Any competent designer can make a handful of fonts. Sure, there are a hundreds of fonts to be found in the Internet. But none of them can be as unique as yours. Let’s proceed with the ABC’s of making fonts.
What are the materials that you will need to create a special font? A pen and paper to write to, a computer with a scanner, and softwares for making fonts like Adobe Streamline and Macromedia Fontographer. Before we proceed, let me remind you that you have to be familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, too.
Simply etch an alphabet on a piece of paper. When drawing an alphabet, remember to leave an ample space in between the characters and the lines. Scan the paper into Photoshop at 100% at a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Scan a whole page big enough so you can fit letters into approximately the same sized box (300 or so pixels in some direction).
Now, take the alphabet into Adobe Streamline, a program that converts grayscale images into eps outline format. Convert it from a grayscale PICT file to post-script outline format. In Photoshop, go to "Image: Image Size" "uprez" the image to about 8.5 inches by 11 inches, at around 150 dpi. Get ready to exit Photoshop, but don’t forget save the file as a grayscale PICT with no compression. Open the pict in Adobe Streamline.
If you like your font to have more curves than straight lines, you may change your settings from the factory defaults. Under the options menu, click the conversion setup. Select a portion of the artwork and convert it (File: Convert). You may also adjust the threshold level if you wish to. To do this, go to "Options: Color/Grayscale Setup". Zoom in real close on your image, convert a part of it, undo, adjust your settings, and convert again until you create a cool font. Let your creativity rule this time. When you are satisfied with your conversion, save it as an Illustrator file and quit Streamline. Open it up in Illustrator. Copy the letters from Illustrator and paste them into Fontographer. To create a uniform size for all your fonts, you'll have to create a dummy character that represents the dimension of your font. Draw a box big that will cover the entire alphabet, using small and capital letters.
Copy each horizontal row of letters (along with the box that sustains the size of all the characters uniform) in Illustrator and paste it into a space in Fontographer. Leaving Illustrator open, open up Fontographer program. Go under "File" and select "New Font.” Now, go to "Element" menu and click "Font Info." You may name your font from here.
See? Making a font is as simple as A B C.
This composition is provided by 4 Color Digital Printing and Color Poster Printing Services Company. Your best source of quality commercial printing services.
What are the materials that you will need to create a special font? A pen and paper to write to, a computer with a scanner, and softwares for making fonts like Adobe Streamline and Macromedia Fontographer. Before we proceed, let me remind you that you have to be familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, too.
Simply etch an alphabet on a piece of paper. When drawing an alphabet, remember to leave an ample space in between the characters and the lines. Scan the paper into Photoshop at 100% at a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Scan a whole page big enough so you can fit letters into approximately the same sized box (300 or so pixels in some direction).
Now, take the alphabet into Adobe Streamline, a program that converts grayscale images into eps outline format. Convert it from a grayscale PICT file to post-script outline format. In Photoshop, go to "Image: Image Size" "uprez" the image to about 8.5 inches by 11 inches, at around 150 dpi. Get ready to exit Photoshop, but don’t forget save the file as a grayscale PICT with no compression. Open the pict in Adobe Streamline.
If you like your font to have more curves than straight lines, you may change your settings from the factory defaults. Under the options menu, click the conversion setup. Select a portion of the artwork and convert it (File: Convert). You may also adjust the threshold level if you wish to. To do this, go to "Options: Color/Grayscale Setup". Zoom in real close on your image, convert a part of it, undo, adjust your settings, and convert again until you create a cool font. Let your creativity rule this time. When you are satisfied with your conversion, save it as an Illustrator file and quit Streamline. Open it up in Illustrator. Copy the letters from Illustrator and paste them into Fontographer. To create a uniform size for all your fonts, you'll have to create a dummy character that represents the dimension of your font. Draw a box big that will cover the entire alphabet, using small and capital letters.
Copy each horizontal row of letters (along with the box that sustains the size of all the characters uniform) in Illustrator and paste it into a space in Fontographer. Leaving Illustrator open, open up Fontographer program. Go under "File" and select "New Font.” Now, go to "Element" menu and click "Font Info." You may name your font from here.
See? Making a font is as simple as A B C.
This composition is provided by 4 Color Digital Printing and Color Poster Printing Services Company. Your best source of quality commercial printing services.
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