Comments on: Create your own fonts http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/create-your-own-fonts/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dusk Peterson http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/create-your-own-fonts/comment-page-1/#comment-1088829 Dusk Peterson Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:51:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=24110#comment-1088829 My immediate reaction is, I'm afraid, a knee-jerk one: Ouch. Aren't there enough bad fonts in the world already? I'm glad to hear that there are tools out there for folks who are really interested in fonts and have educated themselves. (And that Fontifier tool sounds like great fun.) But I'm afraid that we live in such a typographically ignorant world that most amateur font designers won't take the trouble to educate themselves on what makes a good font. (The fact that the writer of the Christian Science article doesn't appear to know the difference between fonts and typefaces hardly reassures me.) My immediate reaction is, I’m afraid, a knee-jerk one: Ouch. Aren’t there enough bad fonts in the world already?

I’m glad to hear that there are tools out there for folks who are really interested in fonts and have educated themselves. (And that Fontifier tool sounds like great fun.) But I’m afraid that we live in such a typographically ignorant world that most amateur font designers won’t take the trouble to educate themselves on what makes a good font.

(The fact that the writer of the Christian Science article doesn’t appear to know the difference between fonts and typefaces hardly reassures me.)

]]> By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/create-your-own-fonts/comment-page-1/#comment-1087702 Joseph Gray Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:58:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=24110#comment-1087702 There are thousands (millions?) of free fonts on the net. Some are good, most are less so. Creating a font that really looks good is more than simply creating outlines of letters. Things like ligatures, kerning pairs, etc. make all the difference between amateur fonts and professional fonts. And italics are an entirely different font, not just some slanted version of the normal font. It's the details that count. There are thousands (millions?) of free fonts on the net. Some are good, most are less so.

Creating a font that really looks good is more than simply creating outlines of letters. Things like ligatures, kerning pairs, etc. make all the difference between amateur fonts and professional fonts. And italics are an entirely different font, not just some slanted version of the normal font. It’s the details that count.

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