![]() ![]() Check out Threadless designer Jillian’s tutorial for creating your own font in TypeTool.Ī while back I did a short post with behind the scenes shots of how the Threadless holiday typeface was made. They’re brought to you by our very own Threadless staff designers, Alex, Jillian & Speedy Joe. ![]() ![]() Then I may buy Glyphs mini as well.Teetorials are tips and tricks for adding those special touches to your designs. I'll buy TypeTool since I want something for Windows at least and then get the trial for Glyphs mini. Whereas TypeTool has all my minimum requirements met and is Windows/Mac (but is Glyphs just so much better that it becomes worth it?) Updating to Glyphs from mini still costs quite a large amount. (My MacBook Pro is a 2012 model, whereas my gaming PC is a 2020 beast, and although I'm looking at a new M1 Mac, I'm not quite sold on them) I don't like that I'm locked to Mac, even though I do prefer OS X. I like the fact that Glyphs has frequent updates. However, as I'm the one that developed one of these older apps, I may be able to adapt it. I don't want to get locked out because of a small technicality. I may want to use it on older systems, some applications that may require certain DIR tables. I've also heard that the actual drawing tools are not as good as the paid alternatives. I've tried FontForge (since I used it a lot to debug my code) and really dislike the user interface. Only issue is I see that Glyphs Mini does NOT support TTF file creation? A hard NO then. With Glyphs having the best user experience and customer support. So when I look at the software options out there, I've only seen Glyphs mini and TypeTool 3 that have been good options at the price I can justify. I would be able to use both Windows and (older) Mac OS X to create, but would prefer Windows. My goal this time is to create (yet another) programmer's font. the last time I did something like this was in 1987 when I created a bitmap font on paper and hacked it into my Commodore 64. Unfortunately I'm not a graphic designer, so I've bought two books (may have been recommended on this subreddit) and have been getting my design knowledge up to par. I'm a software developer who has had the good fortune to have written some really cool low-level code that reads/writes TTF/OTF files (also an in-depth knowledge of the PDF spec). My question is: To create a simple programmer's font in TTF file format for around $100 in costs, is TypeTool 3 (from FontLab creators) good enough? (I've ruled out Glyphs Mini as it has no TTF support).
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