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.