Making a Font

This was asked in a comment, so I thought I'd cover the three main ways I know of to make a font.

• You could spring for the high-end (although rather pricey) FontLab. If you have a tablet for your computer, it's good for making handwriting fonts, plus you get a good selection of glyphs you can make. As in, the difficult and lesser-used, but occasionally essential, characters. Like ¡.
• The way I made my recent font is with FontEditor BitfontMaker. It's free, it's web-based. It only supports a small array of glyphs, the alphabet, numbers, and basic punctuation, and you have to draw each pixel by pixel, but it satisfied my design needs. It's better if you enjoy working with pixels.
• The last way is Fontifier. Fontifier costs $9, and the way it works is innovative. You download a blank table and then draw, or write, in the appropriate boxes. You scan the paper back into your computer and upload it. The software scans your completed sheet and creates a font based off it. If you want a handwriting-based font, this is the cheapest--and easiest--way to get it.

I hope this proved useful. Until next time!