> But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about > 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize > that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does > anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info > on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting).
Start with fontforge & its wikipedia page. What exactly are you trying to do? Tengwar has already been done :-)