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Google Fonts are free and open source. Basically the only restriction is that you can't sell the fonts themselves, but they are able to be used for commercial purposes among other uses. There are some nice serif and sans serif fonts to choose from for a professional-looking business card.

The best collections of free fonts out there are Google Fonts and Font Squirrel. You'll find there's a lot of overlap between the two.

You don't have to get anything special for a Mac. Most fonts will be either a .ttf or .otf file, both of which you can simply open and install on macOS, as well Windows and other operating systems.

What exactly are you looking for? Do you want the text to look exactly the same as above, or to just have a similar style?

The text on the disc has been written by hand, so all of the repeating letters have different shapes (look at the different T's, for example). You can't use a font for that, you would need to recreate the letters by drawing them yourself.

But if something that looks similar is enough, there are plenty of marker pen fonts available. Rock Salt is free on Google Fonts, it might work quite well italicized: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rock+Salt

YouTube uses Roboto for basically everything, most likely including the Skip Ad button. Once in a while you might see Arial on YouTube if Roboto fails to load.

P.S. your post is against the rules of this sub.

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1. Use /r/identifythisfont to ask the name of fonts

That's definitely Adobe Minion Pro.

edit: Also available on Typekit

Google Fonts is the largest and most well-known repository of free, open-source fonts. All fonts in the Google Fonts library are licensed for commercial use, and they all come with a text file of the license terms.

No you are probably not allowed to use the Adobe version of Quicksand on corjil.com as that is outside of Adobe’s App Library.

It does appear that the font is open source, though, and available on google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Quicksand

That version you probably would be able to use.

“This one” is Randy Jones’ wonderful Phaeton. I don’t think you’ll ever find something quite like it. The closest I can think of is Kostas Bartsokas’ Ridewell.

SIL Open Font License v1.10 This license can also be found at this permalink: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/license/Titillium

Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino (www.campivisivi.net|[email protected]), with Reserved Font Name Titillium.

You can use the online font creator Glyphrstudio.com, which allows you to upload your own letters/glyphs to create your font, as long as the letters and glyphs are clear images and preferably black and white so that the program better replicates each letter.

The best results (are not cheap nor expensive) would be to use Fontself with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. You can replicate each letter with great and easy precision, and is probably the easiest to use in the way of giving you full control over your font.

The reason I would recommend using Fontself with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, is because Glyphrstudio.com exports Web Fonts which mean that the kerning values (the spaces in between the letters) do not show up on Microsoft Word, which will be difficult if you plan to use this font to write documents. In fact, most free online font creators do not allow your exported font to retain kerning values unless you purchase the full version. Fontself and Illustrator with Photoshop (apart from having 7 day trial periods) do in fact cost, but not as much as most font creators.

I'd also recommend, if you're creating a font based on someone's handwriting, that you look into Copyright Law and Fair Use. If your font is only for personal use, then that's completely fine. But if you plan to upload it online somewhere then definitely look into Copyright Law as well as the differences between Commercial Use and Personal Use (but if you're just creating this for yourself, then skip this part.)

I've just discovered Birdfont which doesn't appear to be overly complex. It has an autotrace feature which is what it looks like you're after.

https://birdfont.org/doku/doku.php/autotrace_in_birdfont_2.x

Depends on the font. And maybe on your profession. I'd be sort of disappointed to see some kind of creative's resume and cover letter presented in an ugly default font. But then again, it's definitely possible to get TOO creative.

• Carpathe = no

• Carlito = yes

Found it here if you scroll down:

"file name: Bastien Sozeau Beon 2013"

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-58200.html

This appears to be the '2015' version of it - BEON

No one here is going to give you FF Meta Serif (with diacritics or without) for free, I would hope.

I’d suggest looking into OFL fonts as they’re usually well-produced and with good language support. Gentium is somewhat similar to FF Meta Serif, and has a good selection of extended Latin characters (and it’s legitimately free).

If you don’t really need serifs, FF Meta Sans’ successor, Fira Sans, is also free to download and use, and has a massive set of glyphs.

What you're after is a monospace/fixed-width font, there are plenty out there, but I recommend Courier Prime or Source Code Pro.

You could start with this font pairing guide: https://designschool.canva.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-font-pairing/

And then check out Google fonts for ideas of what you're looking for: https://fonts.google.com/

Google Fonts has 148 serif fonts that meet your requirements. The Ř/ř characters you need are in Google's Latin Extended character set, which you can filter for in the languages dropdown menu at the top of the page.

I think only you would know what you mean by that.

I suggest going to the Display fonts on Google Fonts and scrolling until you find something you like.

Most Chinese foundries are not particularly good at Latin type design.

That said, I’d suggest the Noto fonts, or try the other options on Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/?subset=chinese-simplified

What tools have you tried so far?

I use a combination of different applications. For the actual font creation, I use a plugin for Illustrator and Photoshop called FontSelf. It makes the creation process pretty smooth. It also has lots of advanced options for kerning and such.

I tried a couple of free tools like BirdFont and Calligraphr but I use Illustrator and Photoshop regularly so FontSelf just fit into my workflow.

If you use either, give it a look - https://www.fontself.com/store

I am not a proffessional but You should take look at fonts.google.com. All fonts are presented as Free for Commercial Uses. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/ has free fonts too. Just don't forget to review their licence.

I don't know about dafont. But I'd recommend Segoe Print & lilly. They're free too!

Yes, Chinese fonts. Did you want Simplified?

These all support at least a subset of Simplified. I don't know how to check how many characters, and how many characters you actually need. I know that even basic Chinese would require 4000 characters, maybe 20,000 characters, but the Google Fonts "glyphs" tab of these only show a small subset.

https://fonts.google.com/?subset=chinese-simplified

I would recommend Glyphs Mini 2: https://glyphsapp.com/blog/glyphs-mini-2

I think it’s the most easy to use, there’s a tail version to play around with and it’s relatively cheap compared to other solutions.

If you are looking for a way to easily download, install, and keep Google fonts updated on your computer check out…

https://skyfonts.com

… yes… these fonts do get updated and improved over time. this is a good way to manage and automate making sure you are always using the most recent versions of the google fonts you choose to use.

You could use https://icomoon.io/app/#/select to create a font. Once created and installed, select 'insert icon' in MS office. This should happen

Choose the font (up arrow) then make sure the encoding is hex (down arrow)

Okay it looks like Futura Medium or Century Gothic, but that M isn't right. The M looks more like Gotham or even more like Josefin Sans... but the S doesn't really match.

A sample with more than 5 letters might help if you have one.

After a quick google, he seem's to use a few fonts, but most typically a serif - which is Baskerville I'm fairly certain (in all caps with a medium-ish tracking).

(Libre Baskerville is a solid free version of this if you don't have it)

Also check out /r/identifythisfont for these kind of questions

I think the main thing here is to find something easy to read that provides decent contrast to the fancy display faces and offers upper and lower case characters. Having said that, what you choose depends on the look you're going for.

You might like a classic print serif, maybe Garamond (I tried Adobe Garamond Pro).

Or you might want a modern sans serif to offer more contrast; Clear Sans Regular didn't look too shabby when I gave it a quick look.

Or you might want a quirkier, old-school print look. Something like 1543HumaneJenson might work, though I usually try not to use overly stylized fonts for body copy.

The above were just a few that I tried out on the fly and they weren't half bad, but everyone's tastes are different. Try some different things and see what sticks. Good luck!

Edit: formatting

I used FontForge. I did it by downloading the SMuFL font Bravura and using that as a reference. I basically took the Bravura clefs, made those background layers, then drew my own clefs using that as a scale reference.

The good thing is that both FontForge and Bravura are open source so it's legal to use this method to create your own music notation font.

Hope that helps!

FontForge gets a lot of hate from others these parts, but it's what I use and I've found it more than suficcent. It doesn't have all of the fancy new-fangled features that some others have, but it's free and has some very useful features such as auto generation of accented glyphs, auto italics, and the ability to program in your own features using python. It's worth trying out because it's completely free and you can always give me a holler if you need some pointers.

Thank you! It is $20. It also includes ligatures, some extras (doodles and such), and botanical monograms. You can check it out here: https://creativemarket.com/kellie-jayne/3151554-Oatmeal-Raisin-Font-Duo-Graphics

I think unless you have linux you have to download software such as TeX Live, which is available for Linux, Unix based OSes, Windows and Mac.

http://www.tug.org/texlive/

FontForge might be able to convert it into a normal format, you can download it on github or SourceForge.

Adobe Text Pro with a fallback of Georgia / Times

Here's a bloody lovely little browser extension/bookmarklet which I use every time I see a nice looking webfont

I tried whatthefont too, with no luck.

Perhaps some context and background would help. Where'd you get the image? Is this from a website, or was it scanned/photographed from a piece of physical paper?

The playful R and wide M and O remind me of the art deco typeface used on the cover of The New Yorker. Rea Irvin designed that typeface in 1925, though there's a knockoff for sale online.

Ah some progress.

http://superuser.com/questions/1030155/cannot-convert-crystal-report-to-pdf-failed-to-export-the-report/1030156

6.88 was in the KB3102429 update. If I can find a manual install of that I can install it on a VM and grab it from there.

This is from a pair of books I made called Bell’s Codex and my magnum opus. The premise is that a famous author releases a book encrypted in a secret code, offers money for solving it and then disappears. Bell’s Codex is a thriller novel about people trying to solve it, my magnum opus is the ACTUAL code book from the story. The puzzle is real and the clues for solving it are in the novel. This image is from a page of the code book. There is more info at r/OpusMercenaries. Here is a link to the books on Amazon!

Bell's Codex https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DFP4B1H/

I started in printing in the early 70s - they are dingbats. Some typefaces come with a set incorporated - especially the older faces - and there are sets that are just dingbats. Some typefaces have their own sets of dingbats on a separate font.

There used to be a splendid collection of line cuts at Briar Press but the links seem to be dead. It was a treasure.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/classification/dingbat

1. You can buy fonts from marketplaces like Fontspring, MyFonts and Creative Market. Type foundries (companies that make fonts) and independent type designers sometimes sell their fonts directly, like Dinamo Fonts, Fontwerk and DJR. Typically you'll buy a desktop license for the font, which gets you the font files to install and use on your system and a license to use them.
2. A typical desktop license allows you to use the font for typesetting on your computer. One common restriction is that a separate e-book license might be needed if you're going to be embedding the font in a digital magazine/book/document that you're selling.
3. Keep a copy of your receipt/invoice and a copy of the license (aka the EULA or End User License Agreement). And of course read the license agreement if you want to be sure you're following the terms of it.
4. Nokia has probably commissioned a few fonts over the years, so you may want to post an image of it to r/identifythisfont to find someone who can identify it. Also have a look at the Wikipedia article about Nokia Pure.
5. Dosis is a free font available from Google Fonts. Free fonts have licenses, too, so I'd recommend reading the license to confirm what you're allowed to do with it.

The Lexend project was created by an educational therapist, with the aim to reduce visual stress and to improve reading performance for those with dyslexia and other struggling readers.

How about Neuton or Source Serif Pro?

I don't understand what you're asking. Are you wondering what fonts include the estimated symbol (℮)? Not all fonts would have it, but it's quite common. For example you can check this link to see that many fonts on Google Fonts include it, but not nearly all of them:

https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%E2%84%AE&preview.text_type=custom

Could you be more specific? Virtually all Arabic fonts also have a Latin character set.

Google Fonts has 29 Arabic fonts, most of which include Latin.

Adobe Fonts has 26 Arabic fonts, most of which include Latin.

Most open-source licensed fonts allow you to redistribute them. The largest repository of open-source fonts is Google Fonts.

Be sure to read the licenses to understand what you can and can't do with the fonts. Usually they require that you distribute the license.txt file together with the fonts, and there are often restrictions on things like modifying or selling the fonts.

On fonts.google.com, I recommend

• Creepster
• Frijole
• Ceviche One
• Freckle Face
• Ruslan Display
• Trade Winds
• Eater
• New Rocker
• Pirata One
• Nosifer
• Joti One
• Jolly Lodger
• Metal Mania
• Bokor
• Sedgwick Ave, Sedgwick Ave Display
• Butcherman
• Lacquer

Good luck! This sounds like a fun project!

All digital fonts are copyrighted. Do you mean open-source and/or free fonts? Open source and "free" fonts often have permissive licenses, but they are still protected by copyright and there are still restrictions on what you can do with them.

As for open source fonts that are somewhat similar to Lorimer No. 2, you could try Oswald or Work Sans.

I don't think there are many fonts out there that support all IPA characters. The IPA organization only lists DejaVu and a couple others, none of which resemble Helvetica.

I would recommend looking at Inter and Arimo. Both are free and open source, and are pretty similar to Helvetica. A quick check shows they have good IPA coverage but probably not complete.

Here, go nuts...https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=606

Alternatively, if its not too much text, just make it using the letters...

https://www.freepik.com/premium-vector/marker-graffiti-font-handwritten-typography-illustration_10159507.htm#query=graffiti%20text&position=36&from_view=search

Or just use a font you like and then add the drips.

Thanks. I added a shot of it on a black background to the post. You can also see it on black on my dribbble. https://dribbble.com/shots/4744231-Hot-FIRE-SVG-Color-Font/attachments/1068823

You could try an online tool like https://convertio.co/ps-ttf/. Just be careful when using online file conversion tools – anyone could be on the other end so don't share files that have sensitive information in them, avoid giving them your email if you can, and be extremely cautious of installing any apps, plugins or browser extensions.

I personally swear by MainType, which lets me load or unload fonts (it can install or uninstall as well, but loading is great for one-time use) as needed. Free version handles up to 2500 fonts and can be in separate folders.

It looks like you want a blackletter font. You could search for terms like blackletter or Fraktur (an old German blackletter).

Gothic is another word for Sans Serif.

Google fonts is usually your friend. Here are some possibles:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/UnifrakturCook

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/UnifrakturMaguntia

Nice resource. One ironic catch is that I worry about the credibility of public domain marked items unless there is a true CC0 mark on them. From that perspective I feel safer with a SIL OFL font from fonts.google.com for example as more defensible.

Maybe if you want that futuristic sleek look you could use Incosolatas, which has some inspirations from geometric sans serif fonts, for being a monospace font. Then instead of Futura, which as someone else notes isn't great for a lot of text, you could use something with more readability, like a grotesque font such as Neue Haas Grotesque or Helvetica or something like Roboto. That would give you some of the feel of Futura while maintaining legibility.

If you search at fonts.google.com, you'll be provided links where you can purchase the fonts in question. You might want to consider Neue Helvetica, which is a redrawn version with different metrics.

Most operating systems include Arial, which can be difficult to distinguish from Helvetica at normal print sizes. For those that don't, it can be downloaded in a core fonts package at sourceforge. (I just don't see the point of buying a font when you have access to one that's nearly identical.)

>get a decent free font if you really can't afford a licensed font that is sold by a designer or a foundry,

Google Fonts has some useful, professional-looking free fonts.

Ringside is a commercial font, so you won’t find it for free. On Google fonts, the closest thing you’ll find is probably News Cycle or Oswald.

Hope that helps.

Thanks! Really appreciate it. Myfonts is much cheaper than the official Linotype website. Google Fonts has a font called Micrhoma - it's very similar to Microgramma medium but unfortunately Vernon Adams, the font designer passed away before finishing the bold version.

Traditional and transitional serifs just won't have a single story g, they'll be double story. You can, however, get slab serif fonts with a single story g - a slab serif is kind of more like a sans-serif with added serifs.

Bree Serif is a really nice font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bree+Serif

And, there's this. It's kind of like a script font that's upright.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Caudex

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hot-cheetos-font

Alphanumeric characters and select punctuation marks supported (exclamation, period, comma, question, single quote, dash). More character support and .ttf coming soon.

Would love feedback, ideas, suggestions, more cheeto puns, etc. Enjoy :)

Oh yeah, two notes:

1. Donald Knuth actually designed a lot of different fonts in the CMU family. You can get them all free in Font Squirrel here. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/computer-modern
2. Apologies for the rendering error in the bottom. If you download the font and use it in Microsoft Word or any other word processor you should not have this issue.

I did have a problem though with the variable type file that is available on Google Fonts.

However, I went to the GitHub here which has the fonts as well, as individual files, and those loaded correctly to be used with Scribus. I also must have downloaded fonts at Font Squirrel, because I know that I have some of the initials working as well as the other faces like the small caps font that aren't at the GitHub repository, and I actually prefer the SC font even when I can work with OpenType features in the program, which is to say most things that I do. But now I have a mess of things on my computer, and I don't particularly like how MacOs handles fonts. It's not always clear which file got installed (if you unzip a file twice by mistake, if you download something again, by accident, etc. it won't stop you from installing what's already there, and I now have a mix of individual OTF and TTF files as well as variable weight files.).

Looks custom, but if you're looking for something with a similar feel, check out Londrina.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/londrina

It's fairly different but has similar tone.

I can't give you an exact font to use, but I can tell you what you should look for; an almost messy handwritten font. You want it to look like the person wrote a letter to whoever they're singing about during this moment of "hysterical sobbing."

An example with cursive: Cedarville Cursive

An example with print: Reenie Beanie

Here's a link to it on Google Fonts. I just love how dynamic this font is. It's a classic like the others mentioned by everyone too. It looks great as a copy font but for me it shines more as a headline in Black or Black Italic.

Not sure what you mean with replacement of English abcdefg since they are two different scripts, but here you can find a good selection of fonts with Korean script:
https://fonts.google.com/?subset=korean

I would think about avoiding any crazy fonts and keeping it simple. For the body text, I would use something sans serif. Lato or Roboto would be decent options. Subheads could be a bold version of that. Headers you could use Staatliches or something more industrial and with a little more character.

It’s really up to you and how you want to drive the aesthetic, but I would first try to get a good legible type base and build on that. Check out tdwpband.com. I think they use type pretty well.

If you mean SF Compact Rounded, it's designed specifically for Apple Watch and isn't even available to developers for macOS.

Generally speaking, the closest free version of SF itself might be Roboto.

Yeah, when it comes down to budget that’s often a tough sell.

Since you’re interested in a DIN-style font, something you could consider is doing a font fallback chain. Windows 10 has a font called Bahnschrift which is based on DIN as well, so that could be first, then if the user doesn’t have the font it falls back to a Google Fonts option, like Ropa. That adds some complexity but would help you get around the limitation somewhat.

fine then I'll put a link then! ;)

https://creativemarket.com/Manon.Lef/6598718-Katie-Roze-Watercolor-Font

Great design and price, I'm going to pick this up would be perfect for lots of the wedding work I do.

here's where i usually find fonts: https://creativemarket.com/fonts?u=hajartukur ; you can check the link and see if you'd find anything similar, or new fonts since you're new to the whole font thing x

Geneva Nine is on Google fonts. I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. I googled "Geneva font" and got a half dozen downloads for it. Is there something else you're looking for? I even found the italic version here: https://creativemarket.com/DeneStudios/4245981-GENEVA-A-family-of-8-fonts You have to pay for it but it looks cheap.

Yes there are! Maybe not to that extent but many handwritten fonts have alternates for several letters as well as ligatures, or multi letter lockups, embedded.

I was just working with Against by Fortunes Co. and several of their fonts, both handwritten and not, offer alternates and ligatures.

Also you're breaking rule #3 of this subreddit.

If you really can't afford $10 and you want to use Southeast Sans for a personal project, student project, or for a charity, consider contacting the maker of the font (Jordan Mahaffey @ Lincoln Design Co). Many font designers are open to supporting students or charities with a free license.

This font is also available from Creative Market:

https://creativemarket.com/mahaffeydesignco/3112735-Southeast-Sans

Find a real chat platform with an interface you like THAT YOU CAN VIEW IN A PC BROWSER. Make two accounts. Send the messages.

If you ever need to edit the messages or timestamps, you can use "Inspect Element" to make any changes you'd like and take a screenshot. Here's a tutorial: https://zapier.com/blog/inspect-element-tutorial/

OK, in that case I suggest LibreOffice is probably your best option. Open source, so free, and available to download for Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

Gives you similar functionality to MS/Word and as well as storing documents in its own format lets you export them in either MS/Word or Adobe/PDF format for sharing.

FontMeme suggests ITC Kabel and Bodega Sans Light, though the latter isn't quite right. Could be a customized version, but it's probably just a similar font. I'd be able to inspect further, but I'm away from my computer right now.

The first one looks like plain old Myrida Pro, don't know about the 2nd one but the 3rd one looks like Impact

https://typekit.com/fonts/myriad-pro

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/impact/urw-d-bold/

To be fair, the selection does seem to represent some level of prior knowledge about monospace fonts.

That copy-paste quote for Consolas is a bit sloppy though.

Anybody reading this should read the Slant Top Programming Fonts list, as that is a living list (anyone can add/vote up/vote down):

https://www.slant.co/topics/67/~programming-fonts

Why do you need a tutorial to install software? What system are you using? What exactly is not working for you... please give a reasonable amount of information or nobody will be able to help you.

Go to the website of Typelight (Windows or Unixoid), download the appropiate file and install the program as you would normally.

It depends a lot on how much you are modifying the font post import. If you don’t need to do any post-import work, fontself will do the job just fine.

If post import work is necessary, then you’ll be charging hourly. Or if significant work is necessary, then I’d probably include a license fee (since you’re becoming a co-designer).

If you have access to Adobe even a trial would work. You can trace images using Adobe illustrator, then you could use a tool like fontself font maker.

I don't think this'll work because a lot of software take the font name from the file itself, not the file name.
What you need is a font management tool like Main Type. It's free (nagware; you have to confirm you'll use the free edition every time you open it), and you can add notes and tags that will help you categorize your fonts into groups. Also great for a quick preview of what a word would look like, scrolling through all your fonts. There is a limit to the amount of fonts you can manage, but that's in the thousands, not the hundreds.

There's also Glyphs Mini, which might be enough if you're just getting started. https://glyphsapp.com/glyphs-mini

There are free trials of both versions, give it a shot.

If you have a Mac, Glyphs can make bitmap fonts.

If you want the font to be monochromatic you'll probably do better to manually trace the PNGs in a font-making program or in a vector app like Illustrator.

Try this one, http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1171654

I didn't want to be the guy who just asked for help without even trying so I took a shot at it. I don't really want the lines above and below but it was all I could figure for forcing spacing above and below. Unfortunately the font looks like it was done on an 80's era Atari as all my co-workers were so quick to point out.

For what it's worth I took a stab at creating my own font to fit these parameters and came up with this: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/download/1171654

It's not quite right, or pretty but it's a working example of what I'm looking for.

On Windows, I recommend FontCreator. I used to recommend FontLab for beginners but the last two versions are absolutely not suited to beginners. There are no good tutorials, the documentation is poor and the interface is impenetrable. FontCreator has a lot of YouTube tutorials available and plenty of automated featured to help you get started. The only thing that's missing if you want to go pro is interpolation for creating multiple weights but they're working on that.

No recommendations, as I rarely dabble in fonts these days, but a couple other options, in case you didn't know about them:

You might also consider Fontself if you're an Illustrator user. It's an Illustrator/Photoshop plugin that lets you make fonts right in AI. I've used it for some icon-fonts and such, more as a production tool than a design one, but it worked well enough for what I needed it for, and it's improving all the time.

If you're on Windows, there's also High-Logic FontCreator, which... I don't know much at all about. I had a version of it about 5 or 6 years ago, I think, but never did much with it. I know of it via their MainType font manager, which is one of the better ones for Windows font management.

Font Creator is good for that, as evidenced by this here; it also addresses strokes. I should add that I use Font Creator as my main tool for font creation and I highly recommend it.

My process is to design in Illustrator then export as svg to import into Birdfont.

When using illustrator, it's preferable to use as few anchor points as necessary to render the characters.

If you create compound shapes (unite, minus front, intersect, exclude) in Illustrator, check the anchors to make sure the characters are rendered the way you think they are. Check the x and y coordinates to make sure anchors line up if you expect them to form a straight line, etc.

It's not absolutely necessary, but I like to render my fonts as 3d text in a 3d modeling program like Autodesk Maya. I discovered early on in my designs that messed up anchor points on characters may be easier to spot when the characters are rendered in 3d with depth.

If your font design is simple, you can reuse characters you've already designed as a template for others, like making a b a reversed d.

It's preferable to design all characters at the same size since resizing from a freehand design may give you different proportions for different characters.

If you think a character design doesn't look creative enough, browse similar fonts to the one you're designing for ideas. You don't want to copy a full character, but there may be a specific style of ascender/descender/serif or whatever detail you hadn't thought to try.

For my first font, I designed extra European characters with umlauts and grave accents, etc. I stopped doing it for the later ones because it was too time consuming and most of my fonts are display fonts. So I tend to create all the characters and punctuation on an American keyboard. If you're designing a text font for general readability, you may want to go further and design the rest of the extended character set, but know that that will be a lot more time consuming.

Font managing apps cannot influence the order of font appearance in other programs. What they do is they allow you to preview and internally organize your fonts into folders/subfolders and bulk-activate or deactivate them as needed.

Try FontBase - all the necessary functions are free, and it runs on both Windows and Mac OS.

Font Squirrel is one of the best legal sites for free fonts. Have a look here for some alternatives. Alegreya, on the first page, has a similar vibe.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/classification/serif

Similar to these two as well:

https://www.dafont.com/levirebrushed.font https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/edo

And fonts from FontSquirrel are free for commercial use (though it's always smart to read the license)

Found one: Triplicate.

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There's another one that's free but its development has been discontinued (though the developers mention that they're redesigning it): Audimat Mono.

Have a look at Droid Sans Mono, at least to me it looks mostly like any other sans serif font, m is a little narrow, but seeing as it's a wide letter regardless, don't think much can be helped regarding that.

If you're okay with a font that doesn't have the tail of the 'Q' crossing the circle, I think Monsterrat has a more similar feel to Proxima Nova than Raleway does. More weights are available at the GitHub link.

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat https://github.com/JulietaUla/Montserrat

Perhaps Raleway? A little similar till it gets to heavier weights https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway?category=Sans+Serif,Display

Maybe have a peruse through the new google fonts interface https://fonts.google.com/?category=Sans+Serif

Fontforge should do what you want.

For the problem you have with the crossbar, make sure to close the path, make sure it's one single path and not two. This is ugly and done in 15sec in illustrator just to show you what I mean.

Edit: By single path I guess I mean continuous.

It looks like a custom lettering. But you can find many similar duo fonts like that on CreativeMarket. One example: https://creativemarket.com/tags/font-duo