How to: Create Your Own Font
September 18th, 2009 Posted in How-to by Eric
Something I’ve always wanted to do would be to create my own font. More specifically, my own handwriting font. Today, that’s what I did. I was successful. What’s better? The process couldn’t be any easier.
A tool named FontCapture, at fontcapture.com allows you to do just this — make your own font. To start, you need to print out a template page and copy down the letters/characters/numbers you see. See mine below:
You need to scan the template with 200 DPI (or greater) after filling out the template. From there, the site will allow you to name the font, upload it (JPG or PNG preferable), and test it out before downloading.
This is my test in WordPad:
If you would like to download my wonderful handwriting, click here.
September 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
This is brilliant! I’ve always wanted to do this as well.
September 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Do it up!