On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> > > Maurício wrote: > > I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If > > possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to > > at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools > > to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures. > > > > My current knowledge is this. I read that OpenType fonts are > > actually Type 1 fonts embedded in an archive. > > Not exactly, and there is a much simpler way to create fonts, > by using the open source font editor fontforge to do the hard work. > > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ > > There are two options: you can use the python scripting support of > fontforge to generate fonts directly (all font types !) or you can > create an SFD file (fontforge's internal storage format, which is just > plain ASCII) and use fontforge itself for the final tuning. > also really cool are http://unifiedfontobject.org/ http://www.robofab.com/ http://letterror.com/ -- luigi
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