Free Font Creation

I want to share some new resources I just found out about. This is for everyone that wants their own font for their conlangs, but don't want to spend the money for font software.

Go to www.yourfonts.com NOW, and follow the easy steps. You can have your own conlang font in MINUTES for FREE. It doesn't get any easier or cheaper than this, folks.

This is designed for you to make a font out of your own handwriting in English, but there's no reason it can't work for conlanging purposes!

If you don't want a hand-written font, the other resource I found is called FontStruct and you can check it out at Fontstruct.com. Free!

Comments

Unknown said…

actually, yourfont.com charges $9.95 to download the font. It's not free.

July 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM

Matthew Shields said…

Thanks for pointing this out. I think it used to be free, but whatever. I'm going to edit this post soon to take it out.

July 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Generic Cialis said…

Interesting point of view, I think I'm going to try this and see what happens.

September 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM

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