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How to Create Your Own Font (In 6 Simple Steps)

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Tom Ewer in Tips & Tricks 21 Comments

With packages such as Google Fonts and Typekit collectively offering thousands of different fonts, there is almost a countless amount options for choosing the right font for your specific project. However, you’re still only limited to selecting a font that someone else has created. There are various motivations for wanting to create your own font, and similarly lots of options for doing so.

This article will take you on a step-by-step journey through creating a custom font with intermediate-level software. We’ll also offer suggestions for some less technical options, as well as more advanced alternatives. However, before that, let’s figure out why you’d want to create a font in the first place.

Why Create a Custom Font?

Font creation can become very technical, time-consuming, and expensive – so it’s worth figuring out how deeply you want to dive before you start. The intended use of your font will help decide how much time and financial investment you want to put into its development.

If it’s just for fun, a basic font creation tool such as a handwriting converter could be all you need. If it’s for a specific project, you may want to take the time to learn some vital techniques, and also use more sophisticated software. This is the route we’ve taken throughout this piece.

Finally, if you’re creating a font that’s intended for use by others, you’ll likely need to invest a lot more time in the development process, and spend money on some professional software.

Some Basic Tools for Getting Started

Before we dive into the tutorial, let’s take a look at some basic tools for those who simply want to have fun creating a custom font. These solutions can also be a good jumping off point for becoming familiar with some of the technicalities of font creation:

Metaflop’s design interface is colorful and minimalist.

Now we’ve looked at the simpler options for creating fonts, let’s move onto the more technical method.

How to Create Your Own Font (In 6 Simple Steps)

If you’re a little more serious about creating a unique font, and want more customization options, there are several free tools to choose from. However, before we get to the software itself, there are a couple of introductory steps we need to take. Let’s tackle each in turn.

Step #1: Outline a Design Brief

This is the most important step in the font creation process. As with any design project, it’s imperative that you outline your objectives from the outset. Here are some potentially important questions to ask when creating your own design brief:

Once you have the answers to these questions, you can then move onto planning out your font’s design.

Step #2: Start on Paper

While it can be tempting to go straight to your software, many professional font tutorials advise that the early design work should be done on paper. Trying to create the shapes that represent your vision could potentially be awkward and time-consuming on a computer, and putting pen to paper is often easier and quicker to begin with.

Here are a few useful tips for creating letters on paper:

There are plenty of handy graphics on the web to help understand the terminology you’ll need.

For more information on creating letters on paper, you can check out this tutorial from Tuts+.

Step #3: Choose and Install Your Software

For intermediate typography design there are a number of free applications available, and it’s important to choose one that feels comfortable to use, and has the required functionality to get the job done. Here are some of our favorites.

1. FontForge

FontForge is an open-source font editor with a huge amount of online documentation to guide you through the design process. While the design interface can be a little intimidating at first, once you get used to it FontForge is a powerful tool for creating beautiful custom fonts. You can start from scratch using the available tools, or upload images of fonts to use as a starting point.

2. Birdfont

3. Glyphr Studio

While the above two tools are desktop-based, Glyphr Studio is strictly web only. As for ease of use, Glyphr Studio falls in-between the other solutions on this list. It’s slightly more intuitive than FontForge, and offers more of an aesthetically pleasing design interface than both alternatives. Glyphr Studio also comes with a decent amount of support documentation, though it’s not as in-depth as that of FontForge. In addition, while this tool doesn’t give you the option to upload an image, you can upload font files to edit further.

While all of these tools have similar offerings, in the end it comes down to a matter of preference. You could try two (or even all three) to see which you are most comfortable with. In any case, it’s worth reading through FontForge’s support documentation, just to get a good idea of the overall scope of the software.

Step #4: Start Creating

Once you’ve installed your software, you’re ready to start creating your font. Depending on your software choice you can start from scratch, upload images of your paper drawings, or upload a font file for editing. Once you have your control characters translated, you can expand to include letters, numerals, and other characters.

This part of the process can be quite lengthy to begin with, as each piece of software will have its own learning curve. However, once you start getting the hang of things, the process should speed up fairly quickly. To help get you up to speed, here is some of the terminology you’ll need to become familiar with at the start:

We’ve barely scratched the surface here, but if you’re a visual person (likely if you’re creating your own font!), this diagram from Thinking with Type shows some of the font anatomy we’ve just discussed, and more:

Thinking with Type’s font anatomy diagram is a vital resource for beginner designers.

Step #5: Refine Your Character Set

During the font creation process, it is easy to focus solely on the individual characters. However, it’s also important to consider how the font will look as a whole when refining them. Here are a few tips to keep you on track while refining your character set:

At this point, you’re almost there! You’ve designed your font, chosen and got to grips with your software, translated it to a digital format, and refined it to perfection. All that’s left now is to upload it.

Step #6: Upload Your Font to WordPress

Once you’ve finished your custom font, you’ll probably want to start using it. If the intended use for your font is on your own WordPress website, there are a number of upload methods available. The simplest is to use a font plugin, one of the most popular being Use Any Font:

If you’d rather not use a plugin, another option is to add you own CSS code. Firstly, you’ll need to use a font generator such as Font Squirrel or Transfonter to obtain the necessary code. You can then add this code to your theme’s style.css file. Going deep on this is outside the scope of this piece, but there are plenty of available guides on the web to guide you.

Advanced Tools for Professionals

If you’re looking to go even deeper with custom font creation, and want to create fonts for wider usage, there are a number of advanced tools available. FontLab Studio, FontCreator, Glyphs, and Robofont are some popular options for professional typographers.

Finally, if you’re interested in increasing your typographic knowledge, there are a plethora of wonderful resources to be found all over the web, each focused on creating fonts. To get started, check out the content at sites such as I Love Typography, Thinking with Type, and Creative Bloq.

Conclusion

Even with the multitude of fonts available, you may still find that none are suitable for your WordPress website. The solution in this case is to crack out the stationery and create your own. By following the steps above, you can create your own beautiful custom font to use on your website, or in other projects.

Let’s recap them quickly:

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How to Design a custom font using Illustrator and FontForge

Want to create a custom font for your next project? Here’s how to create your very own typeface.

Today we’re exploring how to have a design superpower. Yes, I’m talking about creating a custom font or typeface.

Creating a font is not as difficult as you might think and if you have just basic illustrator knowledge you already have the power to create your own font, you just don’t realize it yet. Kinda like Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. So get ready to pull some paths young padawan; it’s time to jump into custom type design!

You’ve probably looked into sites like MyFonts or FontSquirrel to download or buy fonts for a project. There are many options to choose from, but in rare cases you might want something very specific to fit your style. However, before getting started, you should know some basics about font design.

Common Fonts used for Motion Design

SERIF

With projected accents at the ends of letters, Serif fonts have hanging accents on all letters; representative of Roman Columns. Think Times New Roman.

SANS-SERIF

Sans (without) Serif (projection). Sans-Serif fonts have butt-ends without additional features. Ha. butt-ends. (Maturity is overrated).

CALLIGRAPHY / SINGLE-STROKE

Calligraphy is normally hand-drawn with a specialized Pen that broadens with pressure. Single-Stroke letters are painted by-hand; traditionally made by Sign Painters, but there are plenty of fonts that can simulate this skill-set.

BUBBLE / CARTOON

Commonly, this is a much thicker Sans-Serif Font, but can vary in style quite a lot. Most-notably, classic Mickey Mouse & Tex Avery cartoons featured this type in their titles.

For a lot more information about Fonts & TypeFaces, be sure to check-out Sara Wade’s very helpful post titled Fonts and Typefaces for Motion Design.

How to Create a Custom Font for Motion Design

Now that we have the basics down. Let’s take a look at how to create a custom font. It’ll be fun!

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD FONTFORGE, AI TEMPLATE, & MULTIEXPORTER

You’re going to need a few things in order to create your own font. But don’t worry! All of these tools are free.

Click below to download the free tools:

Just follow this short tutorial and you’ll be on your way to making a fun new style; unique for your Motion Graphics projects!

STEP 2: BUILD GUIDES FOR CONSISTENCY

In this example, I’m going to develop a basic typeface. This is a good time to develop a pattern of style / angle and thickness for your letters. For example, the angle of the leader for an “A” might be the same angle as a “V’. The thickness of an “S” will usually end-up thinner than that of an O, C, or Q and should be adjusted accordingly.

Illustrator quick-tip: To prepare a specified angle to work with, using Illustrator go to View > guides > unlock guides. Click on your specific guide and hit “R” and “Enter” to begin rotating it to your desired angle. If you have snapping enabled, you can Alt+Click on that guide while in Rotate mode to pick a particular point you want to rotate from.

STEP 3: DESIGN A-Z IN ILLUSTRATOR

Commonly, using Strokes to design fonts makes the design process more adaptable when working with 26+ letters. This is because if you change thickness and decide your font would look better all-around with that specified width halfway into designing a font, this will be a simple & fast update to change mid-process.

When you’ve completed your first set of letters, it’s highly recommended to (SAVE first) copy over your stroke-designed letters and expand them into shapes via Edit > Object > Expand. From here, you’ll be able to further stylize your font. Moving forward, you can add serifs, fills, or median spurs to your lettering.

The quickest approach to designing Letters is in this order:

O S A L U R N X В В B C D E F G H I J K M P Q T V W Y Z

As far as numbers go, the best way to approach them is by developing your numbers in this order:

0 8 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 9

Regarding Glyphs, be sure to include Numbers, lower-case letters and short glyphs to your font collection; this is great for using quotations, commas, dashes & periods. I just used 5 different glyphs in that sentence alone, so that should give you an idea of how vital glyphs are to font design.The most useful glyphs to design (in this order) are:

(Note: You’ll need more if you want to make this emoji: В ВЇ\_(гѓ„)_/ВЇ )

At this point, you should have a set of letters, numbers & glyphs designed & expanded.

STEP 4: SCALE & FORMAT THE FONTS

Now that you have designed a custom font, the next step is to match everything to FontLab’s default artboard. The attached Illustrator template accommodates for that.Opening the template, you’ll notice that there are layers for each letter; uppercase, numbers, lowercase & various glyphs. Firstly, I suggest bringing everything into the “—WorkSpace” layer before formatting all of your fonts to their designated layers.

For each expanded letter, you’ll want to cut (command+x) and paste in-front (command + f) each letter to their specified layer. It’s best to keep your Bounding box enabled (command + shift + b) and edges enabled (command + h) as well.

STEP 5: EXPORT TO SVG USING MULTIEXPORTER

After layering-out all of your lettering, it’s time to export to SVG from Illustrator. With the MultiExporter.jsx file you copied into your Scripts folder, you’ll just need to pull-up the command.

Be sure to save them into an easy-to-navigate and top-hierarchy folder if you can (ie. Desktop); this will reduce the amount of time you’ll need to import the SVG layers into FontForge.

STEP 6: IMPORT THE SVG FILES INTO FONTFORGE

This is a time-consuming process. To begin importing your letters, double-click on the letter you’re looking to import. In the new window, navigate to File > Import > *Desktop > *FOLDER* > *Template Letter.svg.

Thankfully, through the supplied preset Illustrator Layers from the template, you’ll be able to view the letter you’re looking for quickly. I highly recommend working with a Wacom Tablet here to quickly navigate through folders.

Here’s where the process will begin to get repetitive; for each letter, you’ll have to navigate to each letter SVG and import them; after you’ve completed this for your 26 letters, numbers, glyphs and lower-case letters, you will now want to adjust your letter spacing on each individual letter.

For the spacebar, use an unclosed line or dot to #32; the one to the left of the Exclamation Point glyph. When you open this window, it will be titled, “Space at 32” in most cases.To adjust spacing, again; double-click into each letter and pull the corresponding guides left & right until you get your letter spacing to a feeling of proper distance. In my opinion, it is best to use the thickness of your letter to decide your spacing. This process, you’re going to eventually come back to adjust in your final steps.

It can be tricky to save your FontForge project file depending on your operating system. Or it might be as simple as navigating to your root design folder. In some versions, you won’t be able to double-click your FontForge project file to open it. To open a FontForge file, you’ll need to go to File > Open > *YourFont.sfd

If you’re looking to make an all-caps font, the simplest solution is to click on each capital letter you’re interested in using as a lower-case from the main work area, and copy + paste into the corresponding lower-case letter tab.

STEP 7: SAVE YOUR CUSTOM FONT

Before saving your font, you’ll want to name it and the process to naming your font is different than that of a standard “save as”. In some versions, you won’t be able to double-click your FontForge project file to open it. To open a FontForge file, you’ll need to go to File > Open > *YourFont.sfd

To officially name your font, Navigate to Element > Font Info, and rename “Untitled” to what you’d like to title your custom Typeface to be under the PS Names tab.

STEP 8: EXPORT YOUR FONT

After you have everything prepared with FontForge, the next step will require a bit of a back-and-forth process. To export your custom font, you’ll just need to go to File > Generate and select which filetype you’re looking to develop. Most-commonly used is TTF (True Type Format).

After you’ve exported your Typeface, you’re going to want to load it up into your font app and test it out. If your spacing looks awkward, this is where the back-and-forth step comes in. You’ll have to re-adjust your spacing using FontForge by moving the tracking bar in FontForge and re-export your font to test any specific letters / glyphs you want to fix..

While testing out your font, a great approach to judging spacing is to squint your eyes as you check the natural tracking of your lettering; I’ve found out through many jobs that my safest approach to kerning from a creative director’s standpoint is to squint your eyes while testing your typeface. Check at various distances and when looking at a full 16:9 comp, this gives you a lot of insight to your font scale as well.

With this completed, and if you’re feeling confident about using your newly designed font, it’s time to bring it into your next After Effects project and begin typing away using a typeface with your own touch to it!

For more super-useful tutorials on Typefaces, check out School of Motion’s Design BootCamp which covers major design principles for the field, and put your cool new Typeface to great use by animating it via School of Motion’s In-Depth Type Animator Tutorial.

Another amazing tutorial to add visual flair to your new font is Joey’s tutorial for creating a Write-On effect in After Effects. School of Motion also has a new course coming in the fall all about using Illustrator and Photoshop for Motion Design, but let’s just keep that a secret between you and me for now.

I hope this was a very exciting and creative tutorial; enjoy the new capability you now possess. I look forward to the new retro movie fonts we’ll be seeing from you in all your upcoming Motion projects!

Free Anticipation After Effects Project File

How to Create Your Own Fonts and Edit TrueType Fonts

You can even name them after your cat

Wouldn’t it be neat if you could create your own TrueType fonts, name them whatever you want, and actually use them in programs like Word, Photoshop, etc? Luckily, there are some really cool software apps out there that you can use to not only create your own Windows fonts, but also to edit the fonts that are currently on your system!

In this post, I’ll mention a couple of programs, some free and some paid, that you can use to create custom fonts. Obviously, the paid programs tend to have more features and better interfaces for working with the fonts, but there are some good free ones too.

Free Font Editors

Let’s start with the free ones since most people will be creating fonts not as a business, but just for fun. There are literally millions of fonts you could download or buy online, so if you’re reading this post, you’re probably interested in being creative and unique!

One of the easiest ways to create new fonts is to use an online font editor. You can create your fonts right in the browser and download them onto your computer when finished.

FontStruct

FontStruct is probably my favorite online font editor because it has nice interface and the best tools for manipulating the fonts. In order to use the service, you have to create an account and login. After that, click on the Create New Fontstruction button. Give your font a name and you’ll see the font editor screen.

Here you use “bricks” to create your font block by block. They have a lot of bricks to choose from and you can switch to Expert Mode, which will give you even more tools for creating the fonts. It will take some time, practice and creativity before you can create anything very unique, but it’s definitely a lot of fun.

PaintFont

FontStruct requires you to create your font using digital tools, but what if you would rather draw your fonts by hand and then have them digitally converted to vector fonts? Well, that’s where PaintFont can help!

PaintFont is a neat little online service that first makes you select the characters you want in your font, then prints out a template for you, which you fill out, and then makes you upload it so that it can convert your handwriting into an actual font. It also has templates for other languages besides English like Spanish, German, French, Italian, etc.

Once you click Create template, a PDF file will be downloaded that you should print and fill out. Each block will contain a single character from the ones you chose above. You obviously don’t have to write the letter as displayed in the box, but as you would like it to appear in your new font. The character is just for reference so that the program knows which block represents which letter.

Then you upload the font template and download your newly created font. Obviously, the process won’t be perfect, so you’ll need to make sure you get a good scan of the template before uploading and the characters are written clearly in black ink. The nice thing is that if a couple of fonts are not recognized properly, you don’t have to start from scratch.

You can create a new template with the faulty characters only and then when you go to upload, click on the advanced options, you can use the original font as a base font. The newly recognized characters will replace the ones in the base font. Overall, a neat concept and something fun you can do with your kids!

BirdFont

Moving from online tools to desktop tools, one nice font editor is BirdFont. It’s got quite a bit of tools for manipulating fonts and will be really easy to use for anyone who already has experience with software like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.

If you are completely new to any of these tools, it will take some time to learn them as it’s hard to create anything decent looking by just playing around with various tools you don’t know how to use. You can check out their online tutorials for help on getting started.

FontForge

Another free program for editing fonts and converting between font types is FontForge. It’s an open source project and it works ok, but not as well as I would have liked. Firstly, it seems to not have been updated since 2012. Secondly, instead of being in one big window, it has separate windows for tools, the fonts list, etc kind of like how GIMP used to be.

It works well, but it’s not very user friendly. Also, it doesn’t have as many tools as BirdFont. Now let’s talk about some of the paid apps for editing fonts.

Commercial Font Editors

FontCreator

This program is well suited for designers and graphic artists, not so much for playing around unless you have lots of money to throw around. Here are some of the programs key features:

To become familiar with FontCreator, you may as well go ahead and create your own font. First, you click File from the menu and then New.

Give your new font a unique name otherwise it will not install properly in Windows later on. This name is not the name of the file; it’s the font name that will be shown inside programs, etc. For example, Times New Roman is the font family name and the file name is actually timesbd.ttf.

You’ll now see the glyph overview window, which is where you can actually draw in your letters. Double click on the cell with the caption “A” and you’ll now be brought to the glyph edit window. Choose Contour from the Insert menu to start creating your letters.

You can read the entire in-detail manual for using FontCreator here. If you still feel this is simply too hard or you want to create a font from your own handwriting, you will need to have some kind of drawing tablet and a graphical program such as Photoshop that can save each letter you draw out as a GIF. There are also lots of free drawing programs out there also.

If you have each letter saved in GIF format, then you can import the letters into the glyph edit window by going to Tools and then Import Image. This way you don’t have to actually draw your letters using tools, but can just write them out.

After you have created a few fonts, you can test out your new customized font by going to Test in the Font menu. Start typing the letters and you should now see how your letters look in combination:

Now you can click Install from the Font menu to install the font into Windows. It is recommended to not simply copy the fonts to the Windows Fonts folder. Once installed, your font will be available in all of your favorite applications!

FontLab Studio

The process for creating your own fonts is not necessarily easy, but it’s definitely possible for most people with a little time and effort (and maybe a little cash too). Overall, though, it’s really cool to make your own fonts for sending cards, emails, etc! Enjoy!

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The 6 Best Sites for Creating Your Own Font

By Sydney Franklin | June 2019

Fonts are one of the biggest parts of design! I personally think typography is THE MOST important thing when it comes to design, but that might just be me! All joking aside, fonts are a large part of our subconscious, evoking emotions that we may not realize until we sit and ponder the composition of a poster or sign.

There are fonts that are standard in software, but have you ever considered creating your own font from your handwriting? Creating a font adds a touch of humanity to something that may have been sterile, especially when you are designing a poster for a show or adding some pictures to Facebook.

There are just a few of the many awesome sites out there that provide you with the capabilities of creating your own fonts. It is totally worth it to be unique and make your fonts stand out!

Contact our web design team if you’re interested in collaborating today!

Make your own font: A guide on how to create a font

Ever wanted to make your own font?

When you consider packages such as Typekit and Google Fonts, you will find there are practically limitless options for choosing the correct font for your project.

However, you’re still choosing something that another person has created. There are plenty of things to motivate you to create your own font, and there are plenty of options for doing that.

But, why would you consider making a font?

Creating a font can be highly technical, time-consuming, and also expensive. Therefore, before even looking at how to make your own font, figure out how deep you want to dive in. What you want to use it for will tell you whether learning how to create a font is worth it.

If you only need it for fun, you don’t need to know how to create fonts, a basic font creating tool should do it.

If it’s for a specific project, taking the time to learn some key techniques, and using more sophisticated software is important when you want to know how to make a font. This is what we’ll work with when we try to help you learn how to make fonts below.

The fundamentals of fonts

Before you get into the designing part, it’s vital that you understand the structure of typography. Terms like baseline or cap height should be second nature to you. Let’s take a look at the basics.

Other terms like ligature or finial are also helpful to know, but they’ll be more useful in some more advanced typefaces. When you’re only getting started, you should know how your letters are organized in a grid system.

Sketching the letterforms

Plenty of the professional forms will include alternative styles, such as bold, italic or small caps. You most likely don’t have the time to do all of these, so focusing on the basics is what you need to do. Begin by drawing a simple, baseline grid with pencil and paper.

Get a ruler, and measure dimensions proportionally, and make perfectly straight lines. You won’t find rules for the relationships between the cap height and x-height, so your judgment will be put to good use.

Begin by making a brief

Having a clear vision of the purpose is key, since designing a typeface can be a long project. The usual practice here is to create a typeface responds to a brief.

Developing the brief will require reflection and research, and the answer to questions such as is it for personal use, or a specific project, or what makes the typeface unique.

There are plenty of options, and there have been typefaces created specifically for academic texts, or maybe as one-offs for public lettering. When you know what you will use the typeface for, is when you can get started on the design.

Some basic choices

Even at the beginning, you’ll need to deal with some basics. Is it a sans serif, or a serif typeface? Will it be geometric, or writing-based? Will you make a display face which works best when used in a large size, or a text face, which is best used for long sections of copy?

A quick tip is that a sans serif is more difficult to create if you’re a beginner. The features that give these typefaces their exact identity are actually very subtle and difficult to pick up.

Ground zero

An interesting choice is to digitize your own writing style. Even though this is a useful practice exercise, you should know that handwriting is individual, and without plenty of refinement, you might be restricting yourself to a typeface for personal use.

And, you should avoid using an existing typeface to base your design on. For example, “Helvetica with wings” won’t give you a better typeface, and it won’t help you with developing your skills.

Start with your hands

When you’re starting off, define your letterforms by hand. Trying to create certain shapes via a computer might be tricky, and will consume plenty of time.

Try to create some shapes on paper for your first few characters, before refining them digitally. You can create the other characters on screen later on by matching some features such as stroke widths and terminal endings.

Your hand usually draws a smooth and accurate curve when you draw a concave arc, pivoted by the wrist and arm. Keep turning your paper instead of adjusting your position to fully take advantage of this.

Begin with the control characters

When you create some of the characters first, known as the ‘control characters’, you’ll set the typeface’s style, and bring other characters into harmony.

With the lowercase Latin typeface, these are ‘n’ and ‘o’. For uppercase, ‘O’ and ‘H’ are commonly used.

Move over to the computer

There are plenty of ways to get what you drew on the computer, but manually tracing them is the most precise one of them all.

Most software will require a drawing that is well-defined, so try outlining your characters with a fine tip pen, when you’re happy with the design. To transfer it to the computer, you could take a picture with your phone’s camera.

Using software for font creation

These programs have plenty of options, just like with photo editing programs and graphic design programs.

There are many suggestions you’ll come across, but you will see the same names popping up over and over again. To make a font that is actually usable, you will need such a program. They generate OTF and TTF files, which are essential.

Take them from here:

1. FontLab Studio

2. FontCreator

3. Fontographer

4. FontForge

5. Type 3.2 font editor

6. FontStruct

7. BitFontMaker2

8. Fontifier

9. Glyphr

When you have a character set, continue refining it

Focusing on individual characters is easy during the font creation process. However, you must take into consideration how the font will look like as a whole. Here are a few tips that you could follow when you want to refine your characters.

You’re actually almost there. You have designed the font, you’ve learned the software, made the font digital, and you have refined it as much as possible. Now you just need to upload it.

Choosing a format and exporting

Choosing a format is what you’ll need to do before you can export. The standard is OpenType font, and it works on anything, Mac, Windows, and Linux. This is what you should go for most of the time, but it is completely up to you.

Conclusion on why to make your own font

Designing a typeface is just like designing anything else – best learned by practice.

Sure, when you don’t know where to start, this can be off-putting advice, and this guide should give you a roadmap. Designing a masterpiece will require years of practice. However, creating your first font only takes a few weeks, and you’ll learn quite a bit.