Software Review — Font Creator — Edit and Create Fonts
After making my own font at yourfonts.com I decided to try out another program that the company has, FontCreator. FontCreator is a program created by High-Logic. The program is a very powerful font editing and creating software and its features can be found on these other sites: Genius Share, ilham-links.
What these two sites don’t do, is they don’t try out the program at all or see if it works. I chose to take the new font I made earlier and try to make it a little better. The original font has several unaligned characters and different sized character. I wanted to make them uniform and lined up nicely. Here is the font as it stood after I created it:
So, the capitals looked okay, but it looks like the lowercase g, m, q, r, & w need to be corrected. In Font Creator you are able to take each character and edit the position of the points or the character as a whole. For the lower case characters I wanted to make them all, substantially, the same height. This is how it looked when I edited the s.
On the left is the original s and on the right is the modified s.
This is how it looks after I adjusted the lower case letters. I set the x-Height 888 (Actually I didn’t set it at that on purpose. Somehow it got set there and afterwards I figured out how to do it on purpose.) and I lined up the bottom with the baseline and the top with x-height so they all had roughly the same size. In the cases where my handwriting didn’t quite conform with the size, I let it run over so it would be more authentic.
After adjusting the lower case letters, this is where I was at:
This was a big improvement, but the f looks a little small, so I wanted to make it thicker. I used the transform wizard (left picture below) to change the scale of the letter f to make the horizontal scale 15% bigger. I also waned to make the space before and after each letter the same. For that I used the AutoMetric Wizard (right picture below).
I then decided I wanted all of the capitals to match up in terms of size like I had done with the lowercase letters. I wasn’t sure how big to make the letters. The program will calculate the average height of all the letters at the beginning, which is where the size of 888 came from for lowercase letters. I then loaded up Times New Roman and found that on average the height of the capitals was 1.48 times bigger than the lowercase. I decided to use the same ratio for my font, so I decided to make the upper case letters 1314 tall.
Here is the new font.
So, in the end, the Front Creator program is very powerful and if you need to edit or create fonts it seems like a great program. I don’t know know if $79 is worth the price or not, but it does a solid job of editing fonts. I feel like my font still looks like my handwriting, but now is more uniform and consistent.
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