Custom fonts and the tools to make them

[Kevbrinx]

Hello, everyone

Fonts!
I love fonts! They are that sweet little cherry on top of the cake. Except the cherry is letters and the cake is a comic.
And what's better than a delicious collection of symbols on top of a home-made frosting?
Making your own cherries! I mean fonts!

I saw a post on Instagram about this comic that had a font similar to a handwriting and I realized it was perfect for my project. I couldn't and didn't want to find a custom font online. Instead, I decided to create a couple myself.

I used a tool called Calligraphr where with a few dollars you can have its premium assets available for an entire month!

I found this website incredibly useful and simple to use but I was wondering if anyone knew about any alternatives, possibly more professional.

Thank you, everyone! And happy creating!

[mrtoontastic]

I ACTUALLY USE THAT TOOL! IT'S AWESOME Now when I do comic strips, or drawings with text sprinkled in, it'll feel more personal with my own writing

I wish it would translate to Tapas, but doing it on Microsoft Word looks so appealing.

[Lady_T_Musings]

Calligraphr is what I use, but I download the template and draw my letters in a vector-based program so that I have more control over the letter shapes. I use Affinity Designer for this, but Adobe Illustrator works as well.

There are options geared specifically for font creation, but I always go back to Calligraphr and Affinity Designer bc it's so fast and once you set up some grid lines, you can tweak quite a bit. Not only that, but Calligraphr also has individual letter spacing and sizing options too.

Though FontForge is the free resource I used in College, so you might want to give it a go :).

[Kevbrinx]

I haven't found anything related to handwriting on the FontForge website. Is it only vectorial?
Also, thank you for mentioning Affinity! It looks like a really good alternative to Adobe's Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, which I really need
Will definetly check it out!

[Lady_T_Musings]

Oh yeah it’s vector only my bad and yeah Affinity is pretty dang great and way cheaper than Adobe. The Affinity team actively updates their software too with new features and qol changes !

[Teira]

Do any of these work in Clip Studio on the iPad? Cause I've been wanting new fonts but it never seems to work for me.

[Lady_T_Musings]

If you are using Calligraphr, you can download the template as a jpg or png and open it in Clip Studio. I used to make a document the exact size of the template first and then import the template to the CS doc and stretch it to fit if needed back when I was using CS to make fonts.

[Lady_T_Musings]

@Teira my response is above, not sure if I replied right, my bad.

[Kevbrinx]

If you were wondering if the finished font would work:

According to HowToGeek.com,

you can install nearly any TrueType (.ttf) or OpenType (.otf) font on your iPad or iPhone. You can’t change the system font, but you can use your installed fonts in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Autodesk Sketchbook, Adobe Comp CC, and more.<

Those are the extensions I export from Calligraphr, so they should.

[Lady_T_Musings]

Oh snap if that's what you meant lol then yeah they work, I had to use an Ap though. I use Anyfont to install them on my ipad FYI. it's 1.99$ but worth It in my book.

[CursedBeasts]

I also made a font with calligraphr, and just imported it into Procreate on my iPad and its been working fine.