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Creating True Type fonts

creating true type fonts

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#1 SmartWeb

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Posted 09 December 2012 - 04:44 PM

There are Software applications font editors that enables users to create and design fonts with various formats including the TrueType fonts. Using a any font editors, such as FontForge will allow you to make an original design TrueType fonts. Using FontForge do the following:
1.First create a basic design for one of your font letters. You can design a capital C for your new font drawing it on paper and scanning it or you can create it in any graphic design application.
2.Now you need to import the basic design that you made for one letter into your font editor. Then using the tools in your font editor, you have to create an outline of your basic design. The outline is called a glyph.
3. Using your font editor, test and control the metrics of every glyph that you create. This is to ensure that the final set of fonts based on your glyphs will have a consistent appearance.
4. Create typographical variations, like italic or bold. The variations would be derived using glyphs, so you won’t have to create a new designs for every variation.
5. It’s better to run a quality-control checking tool available in FontForge, to check that you have the complete set of the basic glyphs requires for your new font.
6.Now using the font generation tool in your font editor, generate your final font from the glyphs that you’ve created and based on your original design . Configure your font generation tool specifically to make a TrueType fonts.




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