Creating your own unique font is interesting not only for designers and developers, but also for ordinary Internet users. There are several software tools available online for this purpose, both professional and amateur.
Tens of thousands of various fonts can be found on library exchangers for graphic editors. They are in demand mainly among designers, bloggers and people involved in web development. Even beginners in the field of website development understand that an original and beautiful font that harmoniously fits into the overall concept of a website, advertising poster or banner is no less important than, for example, the graphic component of the work.
Special editors are used to develop fonts. They can be conditionally divided into paid and distributed under a free license. The difference between such tools is colossal: free editors do not provide the convenience and speed of work that professional software can provide. There are also online services where you can make a unique font in a few minutes. They are easy to use, but the result, of course, cannot be called overwhelming.
Paid font editors
You can buy really full-featured software for creating fonts, which will be a lot of fun to work with, and the font will look great. The cost of such editors ranges from $ 100 to $ 2000, but there are also more expensive options. Of course, such an acquisition is unlikely to be useful for beginners who do not even know the basics of typography and design skills. You should start with using simpler tools in practice, gradually moving to paid ones.
Online Editors
A good example of a service for creating fonts on the Internet is FondEditor VitFontMaker. This is a raster font editor with which you can create a Cyrillic or Latin font without spending a lot of time and without installing any applications on your computer. The service will be very useful in cases where you need to quickly create not a complete font alphabet, but only those letters that will be used when writing a slogan or heading in graphic work.
Free software
This is the best way to get started with fonts. All programs with which you can create your own fonts work on two principles: vector (FontForge) and raster (FontCreator, Fontstruct) graphics. Many programs combine these two editing modes, but one of them is still better developed. In each editor, the letters of the alphabet are drawn separately, and then the program combines them into a library suitable for installation in a set of operating system fonts.
In vector editors, symbols are created by drawing shapes and outlines. They are constructed by drawing lines - both straight lines and Bezier splines. For each line, you can apply a unique style and effect, make a curly path, or add drop shadows. A big plus of vector editors is the ability to change shapes after applying effects, which allows you to achieve a good result.
In bitmap editors, fonts are created by drawing up a regular pixel pattern for each letter. Bitmap editors can be used for detailing a font compiled in a vector editor, but they are often used as an independent tool, which also gives a good quality of the finished work.
