This is, roughly, the procedure by which I would like to create a font:
- Draw the characters using pen and paper.
- Scan in the handwritten characters.
- Possibly separate out the individual glyphs using graphics software.
- Convert each of these glyphs to lines and/or curves of zero, or near-zero, width. Possibly unnecessary, if I use a sufficiently thin pen in Step 1.
- “Clean up” the result of Step 4. For example, the numeral 7 would be made to consist only of straight lines; the numeral 0 would be made symmetrical, though not necessarily a perfect ellipse; and so forth.
- Add different amounts of “thickness” to the result of Step 5, giving different weights of font.
- For the italics, go back and do the same thing over again, this time in what can best be described as cursive minus joiners.
What I am trying to do, really, is create a font (or family of fonts) based on my handwriting. I certainly do not intend the characters to have a “handwritten” look to them.
To make things clear:
The subtraction below this text is a sample of my handwriting. Just as many typefaces imitate handwriting, my handwriting appears (on a good day, at least) to imitate a typeface. My goal is to (re)construct that typeface.
How would I go about doing this? Is FontCreator up to the task? (If not, I intend to put in a feature request.)
