You will undoubtedly get some warning of errors: Generate the font (taking care to rename it first):
Click OK, and the font will condense itself by half. Select “Scale” from the first drop-down and change the X figure to 50%. Select “Elements -> Transformations -> Transform.” You will see you can edit a number of parameters globally. Choose “Select All” by pressing “Control + A” (yes, it should be Command-A usually on the Mac, but this is X11, so usual Mac keystrokes are out) or “Edit -> Select -> Select All.” You can now do global transforms. Let’s do a global transform to narrow or condense a font. If you can use vector graphics programs, then this will be easy for you, but read the documentation for tips on how to adapt the curves. Double click on any of them to edit the form. Once you have loaded the font, you are presented with the screen with all the letters. Navigate to “/Users//Library/Fonts” to find the fonts on your system. To mod an existing font, first load it into Font Forge with “File -> Open.”Ĭhoose a font to mod. Don’t just press buttons and hope for the best. Note: before you do this, we should say that this is a rough guide to font modding, and if at any point you don’t feel you know what you are doing, back out gracefully and do nothing. You can make amazing and individual fonts by modifying existing faces in simple ways to make them do things they don’t normally do. Like all art, the way in for beginners is to copy and cheat. Note: you will need to have X11 loaded to make this software work, but full instructions for that are included. Yes, it looks a bit antiquated, but there’s a reason for that: it is a port, but it is a good solid program and will create and save just about any type of font you want to make. The current industry standard is FontLab Studio who also sell the previous king of font creation software Fontographer.īoth of these programs are pricey, but luckily there is an open source and free alternative which is just as good called Font Forge. On the Mac, there are a wealth of options for Font Design, probably because the Mac was the home of DTP and digital font design for a long while. By reading beyond this point, you agree that you are doing this with a stern warning to be careful. If you save over them with a modified version you may screw up your user interface and have to re-install your OS, so tread carefully and don’t save anything over anything. Note: Beware of messing with your system fonts. fonts on the Mac using free tools, including tips on the black art of font design. In this article, you will learn how to create your own Truetype, OTF, etc. So we are all happy using them day to day, but how can you make your own? And more to the point, why would you want to?
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