In terms of dedicated font software, the Glyphs apps have it the best when it comes to their learning curve. Personally, I use Glyphs and Glyphs Mini for the bulk of my work and tutorials. Additionally, if you're just starting out, Fontself makes the entire process easy and a bit of fun while you learn more about the design process. Since it's integrated directly in the program, you don't have the fuss of copying and pasting letterforms from one application to another (and that can get messy fast). If you're looking for the best solution that works alongside Procreate and Illustrator (really just Illustrator), Fontself is your best bet. Overall, I'd say Fontforge is decent if you're starting out in type design or a hobbyist but if you plan to make it a career, job or what have you, I'd suggest learning one of the other programs. Took forever but it was pretty badass (sadly I couldn't use the art but I was mostly just testing things out at the time). Actually spent many hours once outlining a piece of anime art and tried it. The documentation is a bit outdated last I checked but fontforge can still allow you to create characters and glyphs for a font from the simple characters and punctuation to ornaments and even logos. Fontforge can be a bit overwhelming to those starting out. It's pretty great for those on a budget of 'poor as fuck'. The biggest advantage to Fontforge is that it's free. I have seen others use Fontself but I'm not qualified to speak on that program. Only two of them were decent for book typography. I've used Fontforge to design seven typefaces. Association Typographique Internationale.Handwriting – among other techniques – cannot. Glyphs: The symbols in a typeface that represent characters like A, ! or 5.Type: Printed or digitally reproduced glyphs.Typesetting: The act of arranging physical or digital type.Typography: The art and technique of arranging physical or digital type.Rule of thumb: If your submission is about Comic Sans MS misuse, bad keming or a funny typo, it’s likely better not to post it.ĭo not use URL shorteners. Only exception: It’s educational and non-obvious. No memes, image macros and similar submissions.

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