FontCreator - Tutorials
Designing fonts is by no means an easy task. These tutorials will explain both basic and advanced topics and help you make fonts fast and easy.
This tutorial is part of the user manual and is probably the quickest way to introduce yourself to FontCreator.
Read this tutorial in case you want to make a font based on your own handwriting.
After importing an image you might come to the conclusion your glyph either lacks quality (e.g. not enough points) or has too much detail (e.g. contains too many points). In this tutorial you'll find some recommendations that will lead to better import results.
An excellent article about how to clean up a glyph that contains too many points.
Another tutorial about making your own font with FontCreator. This tutorial also includes solutions to common problems that might arise.
Insert Characters helps you to quickly add correctly mapped glyphs to your font.
Complete Composites (in conjunction with Insert Characters) allows you to add a wide range of accented characters to an existing font within minutes. This tutorial also refers to a PDF document that describes the internals of the CompleteComposites.XML data structure.
This PDF document gives advise for working with the following transformation scripts: Small Capitals, Old Style Figures, Petite Capitals, Italic and Oblique, Eastern Europe, Greek, Vietnamese, Outline or Hollow, Maths Symbol and Symbol, Condensed Thin, Bold, Superscripts, Subscripts, Thin with High Contrast, Ligature Collection, Low Profile Diacritics, Stacking Diacritics, Spaces, Nut Fractions, and Letter-like Symbols.
A great tutorial about making new typestyles (italic, bold, hollow, condensed, etc) from existing fonts.
This tutorial explains how to add characters defined in the Supplementary Planes to an existing font.
Learn more about the way glyph outlines are constructed.
Ever wondered where to place points to accomplish a perfect circle?
If a font lacks these characters, adding them is not difficult with FontCreator.
An intresting tutorial that explains how to design a Euro character that is consistent with the other characters of the font. The tutorial shows how to use both Complete Composites and Join Contours to meet this goal.
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