I created a new font I would like to submit but I am having problems doing so. Ive been trying to save it but it says ERROR Font file is not valid (.ttf, .otf, .fon only! zipped or not). How do I save it as .ttf, .otf, or .fon?

What is the current file type for your font? Have you just made the images, or have you generated a font file with a font making program? As far as I know, all font making software should allow generation of a .ttf font format. I don't know which programs, other than Studio5, that can generate .otf, and you probably don't want to create a .fon type font - that's a system font.

I hope that helped.

~bito

omg me too i cannot get it to download onto dafont too. its really complicated.

@nbgolfer12: Did you submit it? See Submit link near the top of the page. You need to make the font in .ttf or .otf format, put it in a .zip archive, along with any supplemental files, (read me, graphic, etc, where applicable), then submit it, and you'll know if it's been accepted in about a month. Making a font is much more complicated than making a .zip archive.

it seems nbgolfer thinks downloading from dafont is complicated, not uploading.
I think he's just lazy and didn't read the FAQ

what FAQ? and what do you write your letters on before you submit it?

Paper?

on regular computer paper?
i tried that already...oh well i got one of my friends to help me and we found a website that gave me the certain kind of paper to write on it.
sorry for griping at you.

You need to make a font file and that means you need a proper font creating program. Fontcreator is cheap and does the job - though not as well as more expensive programs.
I am making a font at the moment. I have been working on it since the middle of March and it is going to be another couple of months before it's ready.
Caslon Pro took two professionals about 2 years to create. Other fonts I've read about have been as long as 14 years in the making.

omg 14 years. thats along time!

nbgolfer12, you can also draw your letters with a graphics program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, or even MS Paint. If you are drawing them on paper, you then need to scan the paper to create digital files of each letter, which would then be imported into your font making program.

Font making software is quite expensive, ($300 - $500 range), unless you get cracked versions on p2p or torrents, in which case they will only cost about 10 MB of bandwidth each. It depends on whether you want to listen to the little angel on your right shoulder that says pay the money, or the little devil on the left shoulder that says get it for free.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), are in the help section:

http://www.dafont.com/faq.php

~bito