tcarisland Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Around three weeks ago I started designing fonts using Affinity Designer and FontForge. I do nearly all the design in Affinity Designer and basically just the font specific stuff in FontForge. Then, about a week ago I tried my luck at submitting my fonts to DaFont, three of them were accepted, and after my first was accepted I was contacted by this Dutch company called Creative Fabrica to submit my fonts for commercial licensing there, pretty surprised since my experience with working with stock photography and illustration was that it was kind of difficult to have things accepted. The font I have on Creative Fabrica is here: https://www.creativefabrica.com/product/borgen-monospace/ The fonts I have on DaFont are here: http://www.dafont.com/borgen.font http://www.dafont.com/klubkatz.font http://www.dafont.com/invertedstencil.font Aammppaa and Renzatic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Very good! I was thinking about doing the same thing. Did you try more applications for the Font specific tasks besides FontForge? Congratulations. Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcarisland Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 I looked at the online tool Glypher and Birdfont, none of which were any better. FontForge has a learning curve and a few very annoying UI issues, for example: to move an object, you need to open a window and plot how many points you want to move it, it's a good thing you can plot numbers, but there should be a mouse option just to move the object as well. Later on I found that with a bit of programming knowledge and learning to use a calculator while designing makes it pretty easy to use with experience. I still would never consider doing the actual vector design in FontForge though, that part just seems entirely useless to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithferion Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Thanks for your response. Best regards! Quote AMD FX 8350 :: Radeon HD 5670 :: Windows 10 :: http://mithferion.deviantart.com/ Oxygen Icons :: GCP Icons :: iOS 11 Design Resources :: iOS App Icon Template :: Free Quality Fonts (Commercial Use) :: Public Domain Images How to do High Quality Art :: Mesh Warp / Distort Tool Considerations :: Select Same / Object - Suggestions :: Live Glassmorphism Effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 Nicely done. Congrats on the retail deal. If you are on a Mac, you may wish to look at Glyphs: https://glyphsapp.com On Windows, aside from Fontlab, you may wish to take a look at FontCreator by HighLogic. It's my main font editor--but if I had a Mac, I would likely be using Glyphs. http://www.high-logic.com Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 If you are on a Mac, you may wish to look at Glyphs: https://glyphsapp.com On Windows, aside from Fontlab, you may wish to take a look at FontCreator by HighLogic. It's my main font editor--but if I had a Mac, I would likely be using Glyphs. http://www.high-logic.com Mike Given the learning curve that would be involved, Mike, I imagine you wouldn't want to switch if Erwin made a Mac version of FontCreator available at an affordable price! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Given the learning curve that would be involved, Mike, I imagine you wouldn't want to switch if Erwin made a Mac version of FontCreator available at an affordable price! Dunno. I am a bit unhappy about changes Erwin has made recently (like not being able to test init, medi and fina features in FC). Given the shear number of Python scripts available for both Glyphs and FL? Yeah, I would be more than willing to purchase a license. Would I abandon FC? Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Dunno. I am a bit unhappy about changes Erwin has made recently (like not being able to test init, medi and fina features in FC). Given the shear number of Python scripts available for both Glyphs and FL? Yeah, I would be more than willing to purchase a license. Would I abandon FC? Nope. Thanks for your thoughts, and apologies to TC for hijacking his thread. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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