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To create it, I first define my goals, intentions and desires:

• What's it to be written on? (Clay, paper, papyrus, thin bark, stone, ...?)
• With what tool? (Stone can only be written in with a very hard object, ink would spread too far in the fibers of some woods, how would a brush influence the aesthetic?)
• By whom? (how modern are they, and can they manufacture advanced/complex utensils?)
• Why? (Is it a religious script? Is it used by everyone? Is it used as a decoration?)

When it comes to digitization, I maintly use two programs:

• Glyphrstudio, which I use for rather simple systems with few ligatures, mostly alphabets, because I find it simpler to use than the next one for the basics.
• FontForge, with a steeper learning curve but overall more powerful.

You can use essentially any font you want. Assuming it leaves the missing glyphs blank.

• 1) Figure out what what font you like. (EG Roboto-Regular)

• 2) Determine if the font is missing glyphs. If it is proceed to 3 otherwise you are done. (Roboto-Regular is missing glyphs)

• 3) Install FontForge and get Notosans (Or any other font that has the glyphs that are missing)

• 4) Open the font you want to use in Fontforge.

• 5) In Fontforge: (menu)Element -> Merge Fonts then select the font that has the missing glyphs(EG Notosans). Click Okay

• 6) (menu) File-> Generate Fonts. Choose save location and font name. Make sure 'Truetype" is selected in first dropdown. Click Generate. Make sure you choose a location that has general write permissions, such as Desktop.

• 7) Find the file generated in 6 and move it to the correct location with the correct file name. And you are done.

Fonts mentioned in this post can be found at fonts.google.com. FontForge site.

You could try FontForge, recommended by David Peterson. It's free and fairly straightforward, but I find it sort of hard to use. I'm no designer, though.

Then there's My Script Font, which is pretty easy to use: you handwrite a script on a piece of paper and then scan it, and it makes the font for you (there are very easy-to-follow directions on the site). It's also free. This one is okay, but I you may have to do it a few times to get the look right, and pay attention to the sizing. You can always edit the scanned image in Paint or something similar, though.

Depends on the writing system and what program you're typing in. One of the easiest ways is to create a font and map it to existing characters. Fontforge isn't the simplest program out there, but it's free.

Well, has said before you can make her write some pangrams, even a few times the same one so you can see the differences that occur. But I think a plain text would also be a pretty good reference to your project. Something like 10-15lines from a random book.

After that, I would try to see what the “average” of every character would be and try to find one that fits that profile as a main model. From here you can start working on you font based on the selected characters, while still using all the material you collected as references. Also try to think about the pen she will use to write these examples, you can try different ones too.

To make the font with FontForge, most of what you need to know is on their website.

I think for a project like that, the best way would be to start on paper, by making closeups of your models and tracing your letters over it, on tracing paper.

If the license for Neue Haas Unica allows it, edit it in font forge and host the fonts on your server.

It... doesn't have the easiest learning curve though.

As far as CSS goes. Well I guess you could do something about it, but you would need to wrap all digits in a span or something.

I mean, depending on the application, you could just trace or copy/paste - there's not generally great support for alternative characters in fonts, unless you do like wingdings does and remap some characters to be those glyphs instead of numbers, punctuation, whatever. Depending on how motivated you are, check this out.

Yeah - more or less iTerm2 has a few options that help achieve the clean Linux look. The chief one is the recent borderless window option. If I want a tiling WM, I can fire up chunkwm, and if I want a floating WM, I map the command key + left mouse for dragging stuff around. Bitmap fonts can be used via FontForge.

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!

It's almost assuredly a custom designed typeface and unless some dedicated fan made one, I doubt there's a usable font of it out there. That said, there are ways around this dilemma.

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.

Kinda. I'm not too certain on the specifics, I just know it can be done. If you can edit a text file, the IME part is easy, 'cause IIRC it's just a TSV file of inputs, outputs, and more inputs for the next check through. The most difficult part will probably be making the actual font. For not tying them to letters, you can put them in Unicode's Private Use area, which is there for just such purposes. I'm not up-to-date on any tools for font creation, but FontForge looks promising. A quick search revealed it can trace images, so if you can get scans of your hand-drawn glyphs, the rest should be straightforward.

Disclaimer: I don't use macs, ancient or new.

The key here is to install FontForge.

make might already be installed, try running it from a terminal window. If not, it should be pretty straightforward to install through here.

The Makefile itself is actually very simple, you don't really need to run make at all anyway. In this case it's basically just a fancy scripting language, running the command you need. That command is essentially:

COMPILE=fontforge -lang ff -c 'Open($$1); Generate($$2)' {directory/} {fontname.ttf}

Insert the directory and font name as appropriate (B.sfdir and RG2014B.ttf for example).

Huh? Fontforge is free and runs on all OS

I expect they will add Box-drawing glyphs and Powerline symbols very soon as it's really quite trivial and I don't think there's any licensing attached to that

I'm a bit late, but I would try FontForge (free software dedicated to the edition of fonts), it should support the conversion (with some potential loss in functionalities).

It's pretty clearly hand-drawn. Like someone else said, and depending on how much effort you're willing to put in,you could get them to send you an alphabet and numbers and use a program like this one to make otf or ttf fonts.

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.

> learning typography

I don't know a lot about typography, but I respect the discipline. I have a good friend who started as a union typesetter and spent his career in print. I learned a lot about typography by using Font Forge to design custom font sets. My goal was creating SVG icon sets that had just the icons I needed in a web app, but learning that tool introduced me to a lot of the concerns that go into designing fonts. It was a good experience.

https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/ this should be the pest you can get for free, and probably the best free one. You'll need to learn how to use it, it's more difficult than say fontstruct, but it can go in much more detail including ligatures and contextual graphs (so say, arabic/mongolian like graphs).