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An outline font editor for PostScript®, TrueType and OpenType fonts. Table of Contents See Also Font design can be a Trap, but I find it a rather pleasant one.

An outline font editor for PostScript®, TrueType and OpenType fonts

Caveat utor. Overview FontForge allows you to create and modify postscript, truetype and opentype fonts. Installing or building fontforge Running fontforge Er... A font editor is a progam designed to creat and modify fonts. The most obvious aspect is that it is a drawing program like FreeHand, Inkscape or Illustrator which lets you draw the outlines of your letters. It allows you to describe the way these pictures interact with each other (if you put one picture after the other then they should normally be separated by a certain distance -- the font's metrics, or if these two pictures are placed adjacent to one another then they turn into a third -- the font's ligatures, and so on).

Finally a font editor will bundle up all the pictures you have drawn, and all the metadata about how those pictures fit together, and will turn that bundle of stuff into a font that your computer can use to display text. Hints. Build, Share, Download Fonts.

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25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview.

25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine

The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. Please note that some are for personal use only and are clearly marked as such. New High-Quality Free Fonts Pompadour Numeral Set1 (.eps, released under Creative Commons) A beautiful numeral font released by Andy Mangold under a Creative Commons license. Lato2 (open-source sans serif) Lato is a san-serif typeface family. Crimson Text3 “Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces.

Mota Pixel32 Mota Pixel is a simple pixel font with simple roots. 60+ Handwritten Fonts To Add Personal Typing Touch In Designs. Before computers and printers were invented, every prints were handwritten.

60+ Handwritten Fonts To Add Personal Typing Touch In Designs

From letters to documents, and notes to advertisements. Even today, writers and some designers use pen and paper first to create a draft. A handwritten style is a way of putting a human touch on your design, and one element you can use on this are handwritten fonts. Not to mention that it also gives a touch of creativity to your work. To inspire you more in using handwritten fonts, here are some examples of websites that have used traditional methods on their design: Maria Grossman Putting real-life images to portray your links and using handwritten fonts is so attractive and very realistic. Mariska One way to show your personality on your design is to use handwritten fonts and your personal choice of colors.

Neighborhood Homework House The handwritten design of this website represents the organization’s mission for children. Bootb 1. By: Jellyka Nerevan 2. By: Kimberly Geswein 3. 4.