{"id":2713,"date":"2023-09-15T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sc-fa.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2023-09-15T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T00:54:29","slug":"ifontmaker-and-what-ive-made-so-far-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/ifontmaker-and-what-ive-made-so-far-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to make fonts with"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m an amatuer hobbyist typographer. The first piece of commercial software I bought with my own money was Altsys\u2019 Fontographer<\/a>. As a youngster interested in fonts, I produced a small handful of typefaces with that software.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many years later I found into what we now call FontForge<\/a> and managed to produce a typeface or two. While the application itself is the right price (open source and free) and extremely full featured, the unix\/X11 interface was new for me, so I had a learning curve to overcome to finish anything.<\/p>\n

More recently, my interest was raised again by FontStruct<\/a>. I produced several typefaces, with my most notable effort being netlabel square ends<\/a> at 1104 glyphs drawn.<\/p>\n

The iPad has opened up another opportunity to create typefaces with the reasonably priced iFontMaker<\/a>. I love this app. It\u2019s awesome. It\u2019s so<\/em> easy and fun to use.<\/p>\n

Recently, I made a web toy to check out my fonts. Take a look!<\/a> Look for the “toggle controls” button in the upper right corner.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I’m a hobbyist typographer. The first piece of commercial software I bought with my own money was Altsys’ Fontographer. (aside: I just checked, and a new company is selling an updated version, and for quite a bit of money. ) Anyway, as a youngster interested in fonts, I produced a small handful of typefaces that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","iawp_total_views":6,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-typography","tag-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}