I am searching all over trying to find someone who can help me get a font created. It is a very specific font, yet also very simple… yet also beyond my current design capabilities to pull off. Only one weight would be needed and there would not be bold or italics or anything like that, and probably no alternates nor ligatures (although I like things like that, but this font won’t need them). I have examples of 9 letters from the font and would need the remaining letters of the alphabet designed to match the 9 that already exist.
I have tried to find the correct forum to put this in here, and maybe there is no correct one. If questions like this aren’t allowed maybe someone has a quick answer for me and then the thread can get deleted. I’m not trying to get commercial on a board that may be trying to be completely non-commercial, but I’m a little surprised that it’s so hard to find help on this topic.
This is a rather web tech focused forum as you already seen by the forum catagories. Hopefully you can find adaquate help here, otherwise you could get help to find a more specialized forum.
If you try e.g. FontForge and start building your own glyphs we will be happy to assist your efforts. That I think is a good way to start and let us understand what you try to achieve, maybe by some screenshots to start with.
Yes, I’m a web developer myself and know about Site Point being focused on web tech. But font issues come into play with web tech and I thought I remembered there being a forum here where people could request certain things to be done for pay. Anyways, thanks for the response. I have attached an image that shows the font I need to create. There are seven letter samples in it. All I need is the rest of the uppercase alphabet created to match what’s here. I could potentially use numerals, lowercase letters, punctuation, etc., later, but they’re not of prime importance right now.
You might be better off reaching out to places like https://www.fonttalk.com or other font related sites. Is this for a client? Can’t they provide it? Or you could also start in places like google fonts and see if you find a similiar font.
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It would be interesting to learn how the matching other upper case characters are coming out, if you would be so kind and are allowed to post. Of course the whole typeset too would be educational to us (me) to learn from (I’ve done some fonts for my own needs but in a now obsolete .cfn vector font format).
So far he has created all the uppercase characters plus the ampersand character. We might have him do another pass and create numerals, punctuation, and more.
I’m glad that you found a developer. Creating a font is relatively easy with a vector graphic software such as ink or Illustrator. The complexity comes with the inmense combinations of letter spacing, tracking, puntuaction marks… That’s why I always try to find a font as similar as the one I want because most of the time you find one that it is exactly what you want except for one or two characters.
