Article · scruss.com
Creating a TrueType font from your handwriting with your scanner, your printer, and FontForge
By scruss
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2010
About this lesson
Print a character grid, write in the boxes, scan, split into glyph images, autotrace in FontForge, then fix spacing and metadata and generate the font. Dated tooling but the pipeline is clear.
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