Font Design

From Open Font Library Wiki

There is generally not that much documentation on how to design a typeface and develop a font in the world, and at the moment zero that is released under a Free license.

The Free Font Movement, of which the Open Font Library is an important part, will need to write such documentation as it progresses.

See the Tools page for font design tools and outline editors.

The "Gerard Unger Method" is a good first exercise in typeface design: use Souvenir in a normal weight as a starting point, and draw a bold version from scratch. Then draw a normal weight based on your bold weight, and compare the differences.

The TeX Users Group journal "TUGboat" has published font-making tutorials by Karl Berry and George Williams.

There's also Metafont, which is a language for writing font descriptions in, and there's a great tutorial.

Be sure to license your fonts under the OFL - here's how

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