#fontforge

[jan-majeka-yaps]

Anoþer day of having a toxic yuri relationship wiþ FontForge. I swear if it comes home drunk out of its ass again and tries to fight me again I'm uninstalling our marriage.

I'll keep you all updated.

[kit-kat-astrophe]

hello tumblr people who know how fonts work. i humbly request your assistance

i'm trying to italicise (as in, the slanty way) a preexisting offset font using fontforge, but it keeps giving me these same errors when i try to generate it:

i'm a total amateur to font design and fontforge, and i've tried everything that makes a moderate amount of sense to me, without any success. there seems to be nary a tutorial in sight.

i would really if appreciate anybody who could help me replied to this post so i can dm them and figure this out!

[meigagalaica]

About grimoires

I have seen a few witchblr post about using your own alphabet, and so I wanted to tell you the application FontForge is a free tool for creating your own fonts. If you have knowledge of graphic design, you can do really professional looking fonts, but if you’re a nob like me you can still create something both usable and good looking like this:

The developer(s) seem very kind people and work hard for having this tool free and open, and you can find very useful tutorials on youtube. Plus, you can add both symbols and letters with accent marks:

This is the working panel. What I did was using the straight line and the curve line and work with that, but you also have more tools, so you can experiment (in my case i didn’t want to spend a lot of time and wanted something that looked more like handwrite than a computer font, but that’s up to you!)

The only important thing is that you have to draw closed figures (you can’t just use one line). 

After you have the font done you can just save it for later edit and and add it to your writting software of preference. I don’t remember how it is done as I used a youtube tutorial, but I do remember it took less than 5 mins, bcause you only have to save+upload.

[glitterj2007eng]

GUYSSSSS I'm done with the Dreamer langugae font, I'll post a vid about it soon😅😊

[glitterj2007eng]

Coming soon👀

[chromarrays]

Personal update

So, even tho no one asked about it, I was actually trying to force myself to draw more, and accidentally ended up working on a project I've been trying to be part of for a while now.

Not much to say, but I've been working on a font for isiBheqe soHlamvu, a written system created for languages of the south of Africa, like isiZulu, isiXhosa, isiNdebele, chiShona, xiTsonga, sheKgalagari, seSoto, etc etc. I even edited the whole Wikipedia page and looked for resources and how it works exactly.

I wanted to work on something around that, since the system may be a bit more complex for computers than it is for handwriting. I'm helping to create an app to learn how to use this system, and while it isn't that complicated to make the symbols for it, I actually wanted to create a way to write with it properly to make full sentences!

It's not much, and there's a lot to work on, but I've been advancing well with it so far. Anyway, with my head put on this, I hope it is of good use at the end of the day.

Salani kahle!

[groovieshomosexualtendencies]

FontForge is a wild beast that i WILL tame

[beringelista]

Three days of cleaning up and importing the glyphs later I finally have fully functional ligatures for the simplified Romesina script, Ñimesina (Romesina proper has over 400 characters). Of course, the ASCII limit is biting by damn ass and once again I was forced to gloss a Ro-language vowel to a consonant (years ago û -> v, now ê -> f in vowel position). Also the all caps are filled with Omnarom/Romeraç/Miomna/Merofina alphabetical letters, like the cursive letter A right there (Ɛ), for no particular reason but to remind me Omnarom is also a Ro-language (despite being a mixed/creole language that uses an alphabet made up of mixed Romesina syllabary/Ame'e abjad characters).