I have tried various apps for creating fonts, such as FontStruct and Fonty with mixed results. Some work better than others. FontStruct works well, though I find it tricky to make letters with lots of curves. Fonty works well, though when I tried to use the fonts on my computer, the letters do not display at all.
Yesterday I found Glyphr Studio, a free, web-based font design tool that works well and produces usable fonts. I worked out how to import graphics, which is easier than making all the letters from scratch, though a little convoluted, as you have to save each letter as a separate image, convert the images to SVG files, then import them and tweak them. Strangely they are inverted when they appear in Glyphr.
Anyway, I make a rough font for Laala, which requires more tweaking, but looks okay.
If you make fonts, what software, apps or websites do you use?
That seems like a good tool, thank you for telling about it. I like it that you can import the glyphs as SVG. I’ve been wanting to make an SVG font, but since web browsers don’t really support it, I haven’t done it. With this I could make the glyphs in SVG but turn them into a better supported font type.
I use the free (GNU GPL) FontForge app for font creation, modification and/or conversion. It’s an extremely powerful tool that even allows you to define colours for flags, emoji, conscripts, decorative glyphs, etc. Of course you can also import glyphs in SVG format, or entire SVG fonts. And it has scripting capabilities, so you can automate tasks. To my mind it is the perfect tool for amateurs, conlangers and serious font designers.