Making fonts | Fontself Maker Help Center

Create a vector font, step by step

Using Illustrator to make OpenType fonts

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Updated over a week ago

Create a vector font in Photoshop, step by step

Using Photoshop to make OpenType fonts

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Create a color bitmap font, step-by-step

Using Photoshop to make color fonts

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Create accents, symbols & punctuation

Extending the character set of your fonts

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Quotation marks and apostrophe

Let's make sure your DIY quotes show up

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Updated this week

Spacing and Kerning for beginners

What are they and how can you fix both at once?

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Spacing

Editing the space around each glyph

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Advanced Spacing

Learn to space like a pro ;)

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Kerning

Editing the space between pairs of glyphs

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Kerning Groups

Save time by grouping similar shapes

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Font families

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Import spacing & kerning

Copy and match metrics between different fonts

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Alternates

Creating & using alternate glyphs

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Ligatures

Creating & using ligature glyphs

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Set font metrics with Illustrator guides

Aligning precisely your characters

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Size, units and scaling

Learn how big your glyphs & icons will be

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Install VS Save/Export fonts

Stop wondering where your fonts are installed

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Simplify glyph shapes

Cleaning complex object paths to speed up Fontself

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Uppercase-only / lowercase-only fonts

Don't copy/paste glyphs, spacing & kerning for a single case font

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Font template / specimen

View all your glyphs to design or review your fonts

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Making an ellipsis glyph

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Tutorials

Let's learn a thing or two about making fonts ;)

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