hello.
i've been playing around with photoshop and want to have a go at submitting a font.

A. how do i create fonts
> size of image?
> what file format for image

B. how to save them as a whole file and upload them?

On the edge of getting another vinz reprimande ...

Shouldn't this be prohibited?

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If you want to make something why not first find out what it is?

mynameisjack, you can use photoshop to make the images for your font, but you need a font making program to create the font file. The size of images used for the font is determined by the designer, but they must all have a uniform height. Depending on which font making program you use, the source graphics may be imported into the font at actual size, or the font making program may reduce their size to fit a glyph window.

The image file format will depend on which font making program you plan to use. Monochrome bitmaps are good choices, or .eps files or other vector images. Some fontmaking software will allow you to import colour images, but quality may be compromised, as the images within the font will always be black and white.

~bito

thank you so much.

To create a font, you'd rather use a a vector drawing software (such as illustrator) or better, directly in a font editing software (such as fontlab). Try to google fot a font creation tutorial. Once you've made your font, submit it through this form : http://www.dafont.com/submit.php

@kat : Every question deserves to be answered, even the "noobest" ones!

I draw almost all of my glyphs in Illustrator nowadays and the hand drawn ones I scan, import and live trace in Illustrator. Then I copy and past them into FontLab.

i'm doing the exact same thing, jason. Some typographer told me one day it was better to use directly fontlab to draw characters but I just can't! My mind is illustrator-formated...

i'm no noob
thank you!

... but it was a noob question

mynameisjack, I use MS Paint to make my source graphics in monochrome bitmap format, and I use ScanFont 3.13 to make the fonts. Unfortunately, FontLab is no longer selling ScanFont 3.13, but it's not too difficult to find a copy online, if you know where to look. I'm in a small minority, making fonts with this software combination, but it isn't essential to have several expensive graphics programs installed to make fonts.

Studio5 is a difficult program to use for someone new to creating fonts. FontCreator is the least expensive option if you're buying software. For the type of fonts that I make, ScanFont is the only viable option. The latest version of ScanFont, (5), is a plugin for Studio5, so you would need both apps to make it work.

ok, i bare that in mind.