{"id":15237,"date":"2018-03-07T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T11:52:15","slug":"creating-fonts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15237","title":{"rendered":"Creating fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have tried various apps for creating fonts, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/\">FontStruct<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.palabs.fonty&#038;hl=en\">Fonty<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I found <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphrstudio.com\/\">Glyphr Studio<\/a>, 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/image.online-convert.com\/convert-to-svg\">convert the images to SVG files<\/a>, then import them and tweak them. Strangely they are inverted when they appear in Glyphr.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I make a rough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/fonts\/laala.zip\">font<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/laala.htm\">Laala<\/a>, which requires more tweaking, but looks okay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/laala_onelanguage.gif\" width=\"496\" height=\"139\" alt=\"One language is never enough (Zo alu laala nuuna teete) in Laala\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you make fonts, what software, apps or websites do you use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}