I have inserted new characters but they only show up as blue characters and not Black like the other ones.
The new characters are listed as empty. When I try to change them to simple, nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong? I want the new characters to function and be listed like the other ones. I’m using Font Creator 6.
Inserting new characters from the Insert Characters menu will add new characters to your font, correctly mapped. Now you have to either draw or import the glyph outlines to create the designs that you wish to use for those characters. The blue outlines are just the glyph outline for that character mapping in the template font.
Okay that is actually helpful. But now I need to know how to draw or import the glyph outlines. Any ideas of how to do that? I just need to do 2 characters…uppercases for an incomplete font set.
Use the pencil tool on the Drawing toolbar to insert a contour. Outer contours go clockwise, and inner contours go counter-clockwise.
Otherwsie, draw a letter on paper and scan it into a paint program, and cut and paste the bitmap into FontCreator, or using a vector drawing application that can save the image as Adobe Illustrator or PDF format, and import the vector image.
You can find a wealth of information in: FontCreator - Tutorials and Solutions
Circle Secrets is a good introduction to the basics.
The Bounding Box is a concept that needs to be understood.
Insert Characters will help you.
How Do You Adjust the Cap Height and x-height Lines? is good information.
Sample: great tool for Spies & Secret Codes Is another way of inserting glyphs.
I hope you enjoy this learning experience as much as I have!
Open up your font.
Open up another existing font and select the two characters you need - Copy.
Go to your font and in the correct location - Paste.
I appreciate it. Your advice has all been most helpful.