Creating letters with consistent stem widths, serifs and heights.

I walk you step by step on how I created my own font in FontForge from the sketching phase all the way to exporting your font to use in any of your projects!...

Sep 10, 2025 · Type design is visually complex as well as highly technical — however it is easier to begin making type now than ever, partly because of the availability of free tools like FontForge.

FontForge is a free and open-source outline font editor.

In this video, SDSU Digital Humanities Center Assistant Cathy Qiu shows you how to get started with Fontforge and introduces you to the considerations needed when creating a font.

Sep 10, 2025 · What Is A Font?

If you wish to follow along with the tutorial, this bundle should provide you with the basic files you need. I shall not presume to teach aesthetics, I concentrate solely on the mechanics here.

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In the first part in this series, we will install the open source and free software "FontForge" as well as learning our way around its interface, glyph page, and glyph editor.

FontForge is free and open-source outline font editor.