making fonts?

[zlandrum]

does anyone here know what program i'd need to get to make fonts? and anyone here familiar with making them? thanks

[El Negro Magnifico!]

I guess there's FontLab.

[El Negro Magnifico!]

Oh yeah, there's this, too:
FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts

[judge]

cheaper faster option is fontifier.com

[Chris G]

I use TypeTool.

Website: TypeTool 3.0

I'm super happy with it. Very very easy to use. Available for both Mac & PC.

It also lets you open Type 1 PostScript fonts, and save them out as TrueType fonts. Very Very handy. Worth the $99 for that feature alone.

TypeTool is owed by FontLab. They consolidated a bunch of different apps, buying up many competitors, but I dig the fact that they have not dumped any, or merged them into one app. They support all of them as independent apps. So if you were a user of any of the apps before it came under their umbrella, you can still stick with your preference...

With TypeTool, you can design your fonts in Illustrator, and then just copy and paste them into the character key you want them assigned to. It's that fuckin' easy.

In the past I've also dabbled with Fontographer, which FontLab also now owns.

Best of luck.

[Ink Eye Studios]

For fun there is this
FONTSELF - A bitmap font & text engine

[zlandrum]

thanks guys!

[danstiles]

I use WoW Gold to make my fonts

[andydiesel]

I use TypeTool.

Website: TypeTool 3.0

I'm super happy with it. Very very easy to use. Available for both Mac & PC.

It also lets you open Type 1 PostScript fonts, and save them out as TrueType fonts. Very Very handy. Worth the $99 for that feature alone.

TypeTool is owed by FontLab. They consolidated a bunch of different apps, buying up many competitors, but I dig the fact that they have not dumped any, or merged them into one app. They support all of them as independent apps. So if you were a user of any of the apps before it came under their umbrella, you can still stick with your preference...

With TypeTool, you can design your fonts in Illustrator, and then just copy and paste them into the character key you want them assigned to. It's that fuckin' easy.

In the past I've also dabbled with Fontographer, which FontLab also now owns.

Best of luck.

for years i used to use Trans Type made by this company. It saved my ass so many times and was also super easy to use.

[allenboe]

Kind of unrelated but if you want to display a headline font on a website without the viewer owning the font there is a new site called Font Burner that seems to let you do that. Font Burner.