It’s got quite a bit of tools for manipulating fonts and will be really easy to use for anyone who already has experience with software like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Moving from online tools to desktop tools, one nice font editor is BirdFont. Overall, a neat concept and something fun you can do with your kids! BirdFont The newly recognized characters will replace the ones in the base font. You can create a new template with the faulty characters only and then when you go to upload, click on the advanced options, you can use the original font as a base font. The nice thing is that if a couple of fonts are not recognized properly, you don’t have to start from scratch. Obviously, the process won’t be perfect, so you’ll need to make sure you get a good scan of the template before uploading and the characters are written clearly in black ink.
Then you upload the font template and download your newly created font. The character is just for reference so that the program knows which block represents which letter. You obviously don’t have to write the letter as displayed in the box, but as you would like it to appear in your new font. Each block will contain a single character from the ones you chose above.
Once you click Create template, a PDF file will be downloaded that you should print and fill out. It also has templates for other languages besides English like Spanish, German, French, Italian, etc. PaintFont is a neat little online service that first makes you select the characters you want in your font, then prints out a template for you, which you fill out, and then makes you upload it so that it can convert your handwriting into an actual font. PaintFontįontStruct requires you to create your font using digital tools, but what if you would rather draw your fonts by hand and then have them digitally converted to vector fonts? Well, that’s where PaintFont can help! It will take some time, practice and creativity before you can create anything very unique, but it’s definitely a lot of fun. They have a lot of bricks to choose from and you can switch to Expert Mode, which will give you even more tools for creating the fonts. Here you use “bricks” to create your font block by block. Give your font a name and you’ll see the font editor screen. After that, click on the Create New Fontstruction button. In order to use the service, you have to create an account and login. FontStructįontStruct is probably my favorite online font editor because it has nice interface and the best tools for manipulating the fonts. You can create your fonts right in the browser and download them onto your computer when finished. Would easily be a 5 star app if it was a LOT more user friendly.One of the easiest ways to create new fonts is to use an online font editor.
But it would sure be nice to know how to use it. Now that I’ve played with it, I would have paid $50 or $60 for it.
I basically took a chance that it wasn’t complete garbage since it’s the only font editor in the app store.
It’s a great app, and I was hesitent to pay $15 for it because even the description in the app store is almost nonexistent. I’m sure the developer knows exactly what all the tools are and how to use them, but how about helping out users that are new to editing fonts. There are even a few videos, but they have no sound so you are just basically watching someone move the cursor around and don’t know when/if he’s clicking the mouse or pressing a key or anything. It doesn’t tell what all the tool icons are either. There is a manual/tutorial on the website, but it is severely lacking in details. Some tools tips when hovering over them would be great.Īlso, there is no help file, or manual. Some are obvious but most are just symbols that mean nothing to the average user. There is nothing to tell you what the tools are. It did everything I needed to do, but I was fumbling all the way through using it - used command-z a lot. There is a non App Store version of this app on the web that seems to be popular. This appears to be the only font editor in the Mac App Store.