{"id":667,"date":"2008-05-09T21:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/creating-fonts\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T20:44:37","slug":"creating-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Creating fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to turn your constructed alphabets into fonts, there are a number of ways to do so: you could buy one of the professional font creation tools available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontlab.com\/\">Fontlab<\/a>, you could use a free font editor such as <a href=\"http:\/\/fontforge.sourceforge.net\/\">FontForge<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/users.breathe.com\/l-emmett\/\">Softy<\/a>, or use the font creation service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontifier.com\/ref?1031\">Fontifier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found out about another font tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/\">FontStruct<\/a>, a free online font editor which looks good and fairly easy to use. The site also has a gallery where you view fonts created by other people and add your own creations. When I can find a spare moment or two, I&#8217;ll have a go at converting some of my ideas for con-scripts into fonts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to turn your constructed alphabets into fonts, there are a number of ways to do so: you could buy one of the professional font creation tools available from Fontlab, you could use a free font editor such as FontForge or Softy, or use the font creation service Fontifier. Today I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","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\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}