Gravitation wrote:

StarscreamClone wrote:

I quite like it (regarding your font)! It's got a… retro-futuristic feel, if that makes any sense. I apologize; my life flows in oxymorons and paradoxes.

On the topic of comic sans, it's great for comic book text (and I would assume that's where it got its moniker to begin with). It can give things a more childish and fun feel, so like children's websites, for example.

Thanks

I have another possible font in the making, if you guys approve of it:

jji7skyline wrote:

Zaneki wrote:

StarscreamClone wrote:

I quite like it (regarding your font)! It's got a… retro-futuristic feel, if that makes any sense. I apologize; my life flows in oxymorons and paradoxes.

On the topic of comic sans, it's great for comic book text (and I would assume that's where it got its moniker to begin with). It can give things a more childish and fun feel, so like children's websites, for example.

…Regarding whose font? :P

Presumably OP's

dracae wrote:

Gravitation wrote:

luiysia wrote:

I like it! the little lines are pretty unique, though to be honest I can't think of anywhere it could be used lol

Thanks! Yeah, it's experimental anyway, but if you /really/ think about it, Comic Sans doesn't fit any sane category and is STILL overused ;3

What do you mean? Comic Sans can be used EVERYWHERE perfectly fine.

Gravitation wrote:

GameHutSoftware wrote:

How do you make a font? I've been wondering this for ages. Is there a program I can download?

I use Fontforge and Inkscape. Both of them are FOSS and run on Windows and Linux.
There's a bit to get used to, though, what I do is:

scratchisthebest wrote:

cocolover76 wrote:

*pics*

I'm impressed!

All your capital ‘I’s look exactly the same! I can't do that with my handwriting!


now who wants to make it into a font

kdotmcco wrote:

Gravitation wrote:

GameHutSoftware wrote:

How do you make a font? I've been wondering this for ages. Is there a program I can download?

I use Fontforge and Inkscape. Both of them are FOSS and run on Windows and Linux.
There's a bit to get used to, though, what I do is:

How did you find out about those programs/figure out how to use them??

Gravitation wrote:

@LeDerpy you should see mine o_O

Firedrake969 wrote:

I would create my own font, but have no idea how.

Any tutorials, step by step?

Firedrake969 wrote:

Wow. Unbelievable. I would never have thought of that.

Now. How do I upload them to computer as a font?

scratchisthebest wrote:

you can put it on puush.me or similar

anyway thoughts???

Firedrake969 wrote:

I would create my own font, but have no idea how.

Any tutorials, step by step?

Gravitation wrote:

GameHutSoftware wrote:

How do you make a font? I've been wondering this for ages. Is there a program I can download?

I use Fontforge and Inkscape. Both of them are FOSS and run on Windows and Linux.
There's a bit to get used to, though, what I do is:

Step 1: Create folder for font
Step 2: Make folder inside it called “ffready”
Step 3: Open Fontforge, click “New”
Step 4: Go to Element >> Font Info and configure the “PS Names” tab (keeping in mind that you'll be making a different font for the thin, regular, bold and italics for each styles)
Step 5: In the General tab, set Em Size to 1024; your ascent and descent will change accordingly. They should be 819 and 205, respectively.
Step 6: Open up Inkscape, and set the size of the blank page to 1024x1024. Drag out one vertical guide and 3 horizontal guides. Double click each and set the vertical one to y: 0 x: 25, one horizontal one to x: 0 y: 205, another horizontal one to x: 0 y: 510, and the other vertical one to x: 0 y: 819.
Step 7: The guide in the middle is the top of your lowercase glyphs, and the guide at the bottom is the lower anchor of all your glyphs. The vertical guide is the left anchor. Design your “a” glyph with all this in mind, and when you're done, drag out a guide that goes exactly to the right edge of your glyph. Do path->stroke to path and then path->union, then save it as an Inkscape SVG in your font's folder. Then save it as a plain SVG in the ffready folder.
Step 8: Design the “m” glyph exactly like you made the a one, then drag out a guide to reach the very right edge of your glyph. Path->stroke to path, path->union, save like you saved a.
Step 9: Delete the “m” glyph from your current open Inkscape window and save the guides-only Inkscape SVG in your font's folder and name it “guides.svg”.
Step 10: From now on, all of your glyphs will be made from the guides.svg file.

Step 11: Import a new glyph that is in your ffready folder into the appropriate spot in FontForge's glyph list, by double-clicking on it's blank spot and then going to File >> Import and selecting them, in the new window that pops up after you double-click.
Step 12: Before you close the window, go to Element >> Find Problems… and check all of the boxes in both the Points and Paths tabs. Click OK. It'll most likely pop up with errors. If there isn't a fix button, export the glyph back to it's ffready file and fix it in Inkscape, then delete the current glyph in fontforge's editor and import again. Repeat this step until “cannot find errors” is the first thing that pops up.
Step 13: Repeat steps 11 and 12 for all the new glyphs in your ffready folder, so all the glyphs in there are in FontForge.
Step 14: SAVE. Save your font as an sfd file OFTEN.
Step 15: Design a glyph that isn't in FontForge yet in Inkscape. Path->Stroke to path, Path->Union, save like you saved a and m.

Step 16: Repeat steps 11 through 15 for all glyphs.
Step 17: Make sure all of your glyphs are in FontForge using steps 11 and 12.
Step 18: In FontForge, go to File >> Generate Fonts, and select TTF as the format. Save in your font's folder (which by now is cluttered with SVG's)
Step 19: There, one weight of your font is done! yay

scratchisthebest wrote:

you can put it on puush.me or similar

anyway thoughts???

Gravitation wrote:

Good luck turning that bottom one into a font. I can't imagine how huge the GPOS/GSUB tables will be. I like them though.