How to Make a Font with Inkscape 0.47

A tutorial showing the steps to make your own TTF format dingbat font using Inkscape and OnlineFontConverter. Written instructions and template at http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/inkscape-dings/

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• font
• Inkscape
• dingbats
• tutorial
• TTF
• font creation

[wecankrazey]

hello,

its really a wonderful thing...can we create normal fonts from this...also i am looking for an software which can generate fonts online on my website...can u suggest me some or help me out on this...rgds

[CleverSomeday]

@wecankrazey Yes you can do normal fonts, but I don't know many details other than there is a kerning tab to handle letter spacing. Sorry but I do not know of any software like what you are asking for.

[cocobarracuda]

Hello !

Nice tutorial ! But I have a problem : when I click on "glyphs", there isn't any list of glyphs. No a, no b, no c... Just the missing glyph :/ Anyone could help me ?

[CleverSomeday]

@cocobarracuda you have to use the fontstarter document to see the glyphs. Otherwise you will have to create them yourself. The document is available for download at my web site to make it easy for you

[macariuschan]

hey i imported an image into Inkscape and tried to make a font by a series of images. i followed your instruction but i just can't align the image and can't match any glyph. why?

[CleverSomeday]

@macariuschan Are you importing a bitmap? if so you will need to vectorize it first with the trace bitmap command.

[Edward8Bro]

Thank youuuuuuu! :)

[gangulic]

thank you very much!

[cocobarracuda]

@CleverSomeday Thank you very much for your answer ; I dowloaded the document on your website (well, I assume it is the good one ahah) but this still didn't work (I'm not very good at "informatics", I don't know what I'm supposed to do exactly when I have dowloaded the file ^^') but anyway along with this file on your website was a link to proper documentation, it explained how to add glyphs and I finally managed it all the same !

So, thank you sooooo much :)

[upajos]

To avoid accidentally overwriting fontstarter.svg, I saved it in ~/.inkscape/templates (on a Linux machine) and made it read-only for Owner, Group and Others. That way, one is forced to "save as" to another file. This should also work for Mac OS X, due its BSD UNIX heritage, but may not work reliably on Windows, as some versions of Windows blithely ignore file and folder permission settings.

[CleverSomeday]

@NinjaNezumi My tutorial assumes you are starting with a vector. If you are starting with a bitmap then yes you will need to trace bitmap to obtain a vector.