![]() The fewer points you choose, the more blobby and weird your letter looks. ![]() There are sliders to choose how many points on the curves it traces. (All of the uppercase letters were traced at uppercase height, as were the taller lowercase letters like b, p, q, g, and y.) Here I’ve selected the lowercase E, and I’ve told the program that this should be at lowercase height. The import tool in Type is pretty cool you can do all of your letters on one sheet, then just select the part you want to trace. This was my work area in Illustrator after completing everything. I didn’t delete anything, because you never know when you’ll want to compare heights with a previous character, or steal a pen-stroke. And almost all of the spines in the lowercase set were stolen from the uppercase letters, which I drew first.Īfter completing each set and saving them, I moved the letters outside of my work area. The spine of the D is the same as the spine of the K. The spine of the B is re-used in the H and the I. If you look close, you can see some re-used parts among some of these letters. I grouped the taller letters together so I could compare their scale to each other likewise the shorter ones. This made importing them into Type easier, and it also made it easier to keep things the same size. I drew all of the letters at the same time and saved them all in the same large image. No worries, we’ll take care of that soon. And yes, it’s a little lumpy in spots where the strokes meet. You can see on the right, where the strokes are broken apart, how the E is made up of one wider stroke on the left, then finished off with two strokes from the thinner brush. I could combine strokes to get a nice effect. I used two weights of calligraphy brush: a wider, flatter one with an angle, and a thinner one that was almost completely round. I’ll use the lowercase E as my example through a lot of this: I started by drawing my letters in Illustrator. (Spoiler alert: I haven’t achieved perfect seamlessness, because that would take a LONG time.) The connections are what makes it a challenge - each letter has to be able to fit seamlessly with the next. So after creating an unconnected handwriting font called Cavorting, I decided to try my first connecting script font. As long as it’s easy to port things over, it works for me. It lacks the same stroke-drawing capabilities as the other two, but I’m OK with that - I like to draw things in Illustrator. ![]() Its pen tool is the most intuitive of all of the programs I tried, and it has an image import feature. I ended up purchasing Type 3.2 after trying out the demo. (Though its pen tool wasn’t great for me.) Shame, because it has a feature where you can copy something in Adobe Illustrator, then paste it directly into TypeTool. I had to reboot my computer each time I wanted to use it, which was a total no-go. I tried the demo of TypeTool, but it would only let me open it once after I closed it, it’d crash when I tried to open it a second time. I created a font called Trawll with the free FontForge program, but its pen tool wasn’t intuitive, I couldn’t easily import letters in from another program, and it just wasn’t bonehead-simple enough for me. I test-drove three programs: FontForge (free, open source), TypeTool ($47.99 USD), and Type 3.2 ($55 USD). I, however, didn’t want to spend more than a hundred bucks - I wanted to dip my toe in first. There are programs out there that cost upwards of $500, and are apparently the gold standard for font creation. So it’s been a busy first quarter of 2016!Īs a birthday present to myself, I got some font creation software. Is there any solution to this problem, where i can directly import the SVG file to font-forge instead of the workaround.It’s been a while since I’ve posted here! (Although, of course, I post every day over at Holiday Doodles.) I’ve been busy with graphic design school, and work, and not only did we move across the country back in September, but we also then bought a house and moved again in January. The problem in this method is it presents a square box for all of the dots, when i import in the font-forge, which i need to remove. I found a work-around for this by opening the SVG file in "Libre Office Draw" > right click on the image > break. ![]() The SVG file works perfectly when opened in image viewer with dots. I try to import the SVG file for a character in font forge, but its not importing in the "dot matrix" style, its getting imported as a plain line. I am creating a "dot matrix" Kannada font.
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