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Re: Font Question

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 5:06
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:42:13 EST, David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
wrote:

> How do you guys create your own fonts for your languages? Or do you? >The only way I've been able to find is to download the demo of Fontlab (for >Mac), which costs $399 (a lot for me), and, since you can't save anything, >buy Typetool, which costs $99, and then simply design the fonts on Fontlab >and save them on Typetool. Is there any affordable way to make fonts? I >always have a feeling that there's a free way to do anything, yet this... >And, of course, if I'm talking to people using computers named after >castrated men, then I'll probably get no help at all, unless you guys know of >Macish troubles... > >-Jenesis
I use Fontographer, which I don't know if it's even sold anymore, but I think might have been available for Mac (I'm using it on Windows). Before that, I used a program called Fontmonger, which actually was more reasonable in price, but hasn't been available for many years.