So I'm wanting to make some good font illustrations for a font of mine to submit. Can you suggest some good programs or websites to do this?

What's your budget to bye this software ?

Bye bye

At its price range ($0), GIMP might be one of the best, if not the best, there is. Go to http://www.gimp.org/ to download the program. There are several forums that will be able to help you if you hit a snag with the program. Google search for GIMP forum to find these sites.

GIMP can generate font TTF or OTF ???

He is asking for a program or website that he can use to create previews of his fonts.

Thanks

If the font has already been made, and the object is to display some sample text in a graphic, what I would do is:

a) install the font,
b) type the text in MS Word at a point size 133% larger than the size at which I would like it to appear in the graphic,
c) copy the text,
d) paste it into a blank MS Paint document, and
e) save as .png.

The copy/paste from Word to Paint reduces the text size to 75%, which is why the size in Word should be 4/3 larger than the intended size of the graphic.

Gosh, I was convinced that we live in the year 2014. From what I read it seems to be 1990.

I don't think he needs more than Word and Paint. Not for a Geronimo Fonts font.

Does 8 still come with Paint?

Don't know.
But there's a new version of the Minesweeper http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-minesweeper/45ac18d7-e742-494f-a1b1-009aa412a179