I’m brand new to Font Creator and have a question (I did spend awhile searching for my question first).
I have an image that I scanned and saved it as a 300 .dpi .jpeg and .bmp it is black and white, but had to take
it into photoshop first to clean it up a bit.
Is there a thread or maybe even a Tutorial somewhere where I can find step-by-step directions on how to bring
that image into Font Creator and then turn it into a working font?
I would really appreciate any help you can give me on this.
I believe you have started correctly by having converted it to B&W and creating the image with as high a dpi rate as possible. Eventually you have to separate the letters so they can be imported into glyphs. If that step can be done before FC your results will improve.
There is a function to scan an image into FC (Tools/Import Image). The settings there help you to acquire the best image from your source. This works on each image, so can be varied as appropriate. Once “the best” settings are found, flagging “Use as default” will set them. I always test a conversion to confirm the current settings are going to work right.
You can “drag and drop” a whole alphabet into an empty font and FC will cycle from the first image to the last.
The attached is your original image, and the individual letters after I separated them and then reconstructed to your word. I used the knife tool on the initial b&w image to divide the letters.
Because your example is a connected script the links between letters will need extra work to make sure they match/overlap correctly. That’s the hard part of most script font creations.
If you need the black background and if the letters don’t have to be connected, each letter could have a black rectangle background. This is a standard solution. It becomes tricky with connected letters because you have to match and not overlap all connecting strokes. Here is an example where a black background has been applied to the 4 individual letters. In fact, it’s a composite where all 4 letters are on a single black background.
