Font Designs
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Creative Fabrica
Around three weeks ago I started designing fonts using Affinity Designer and FontForge.
I do nearly all the design in Affinity Designer and basically just the font specific stuff in FontForge.
Then a week ago I tried my luck at submitting my fonts to DaFont, three of them were accepted, and after my first was accepted I was contacted by this Dutch company called Creative Fabrica to submit my fonts for commercial licensing there, pretty surprised since my experience with working with stock photography and illustration was that it was kind of difficult to have things accepted.
The fonts I have on Creative Fabrica are here (just click on the image and you’ll be redirected to the site):
DaFont stuff
Two more of my fonts are available on DaFont, I also expanded my “Borgen” font to cover the Latin-1 character set.
Inverted Stencil: http://www.dafont.com/invertedstencil.font
Klub Katz: http://www.dafont.com/klubkatz.font
Borgen: http://www.dafont.com/borgen.font
DaFont and Aerosol
One of my fonts was accepted at DaFont.com . I also spent some time on designing a stencil type font, this time I made a monospace font with a cap height to width ratio of 1:1 as opposed to 1:2 or 2:3 as earlier.
The font can be found here: http://www.dafont.com/borgen.font
The stencil font can be found on my Font Designs page.
More more more…
Two more fonts have been uploaded to my Font Designs page.
PiRad – an experiment in designing letters inscribed in a semi-circle.
Klub Katz – Much like my first Montebello-font, a simple thin font inspired by neon lights. This time I’ve chosen slab serifs and having “no closed paths”. The name is a reference to the works of John Dilworth.
Manos – the hands of font
This time, I thought I’d try and make a handwritten font.
What I did was:
- Write the letters on a piece of grid paper.
- Trace the letters onto plain white paper using a marker and a light table.
- Scan the clean drawn letters to a jpeg file.
- Auto-traced the jpeg into a pdf using the “Super Vectorizer” program.
- Isolated the letters to individual curves using the boolean intersection operation.
- Exported the letters to individual SVGs and imported them into FontForge as usual.
I did some small cleanup on the letters of course, but I haven’t bothered changing the sizes of the minuscules yet. I find too much “nitpicking” can be detrimental to productivity, so I try not to spend too much time on details at the moment.
The font can be downloaded here. Or you can fint it on my font designs page.
GitHub and Serifs
A font called “Valkyrien” is up on my “Font Design” page, just a simple attempt at designing a Serif font.
I also created a git repository for my font designs so anyone can download and contribute.
The github repository can be found here:
Monospace
After learning more about kerning “by classes” and spacing in FontForge I thought I’d circumvent the problem by designing a monospace font. The i’s and j’s tend to become the difficult ones here.
The font can be downloaded here:
http://www.tcarisland.com/fonts/Borgen.ttf
Another Font
As a second attempt, I thought I’d try and make a more regular sans-serif font.
I still like tall letter though, one of my favourites is the “Roadway” font, I guess that shows.
The font can be downloaded here:
A little Affinity Designer and FontForge How To
Here’s a screencast showing how to:
- Find the baseline, ascender and descender of a font you designed.
- Export the individual glyphs into an SVG somewhat efficiently.
- Start a new FontForge document and set the ascender and descender accordingly.
- Import the individual glyphs into FontForge.
- Generate the Font and install it on in macOS.
There’s no sound, it’s just a 6 minute video showing how I do it.
Logo suggestions
As I mentioned earlier, I was asked to come up with a few logo design suggestions for a real estate project my employer had.
These are a few of the suggestions I came up with:
