My first attempt at creating a font.

[Former member]

So I've been wanting to try my hand at creating a font... Never done it before. I finally found some inspiration to proceed. I was pouring through some old records and found a typeface that I really liked, and wanted to make my first Font from.

Dont laugh... the album is Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66,.... inspiration can come from strange places.

So... There was a very limited set of characters to work from but enough for me to base my project on. I created all of the type in Illustrator using a grid system and shape tools.

I know this is somewhat a derivative work, as you can see in the attached files, however I couldnt find a font exactly like this anywhere on the net, the closest I found was quadrata from LHF.

Now I need some professional help.... Does anybody here know how to take these vectored shapes and create a true type file?
And Oh yeah, what do you think?

 

[2NinerNiner2]

I have the cassette! ...typeface looks good too

Cheers!
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[Replicator]

Font Creator is a pretty good program !

 

[mladams7259]

Nice work Blade. I cant help you on the program though.

 

[Rick]

Kinda looks like House Gothic too, That typeface looks like something Photo-Lettering Inc would have done back in the day....(the Library is currently being digitized) cool typeface....

http://www.photolettering.com/

 

[Mason]

Blade Ilike it, when will it be available?

 

[geb]

Here's a few more sites located in the links/fonts/utilities or miscellaneous section here at 101. Maybe they can be of some help.

http://www.fontlab.com/index.php

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx

George

 

[neato]

I like it too! Let me know when you have it ready.

Also, I read somewhere that Corel Draw is capable of making fonts. Is that true?

 

[geb]

Tutorial for Corel fontmaking

http://www.theboutons.com/fonts.html

There are others I noticed by a doing a search of Corel + fontmaking on the web.

George

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

uses that font or simular on window splash it's easy to layout, roll, outline
thank you n enjoy life