Why don't you design a font for yourself?

We are using the fonts of other designers/ artists. Uhm... We're designers, right? why don't we use the fonts which are created by us? It's very interesting. If you are a good drawer, you can design a nice font easily.

However, speaking personally, I & some people aren't good at drawing something. Thus, it's hard to create a quite nice font. But there are some websites or applications provide the tools to create a font. They have tools, you have ideas. So, you can create a font for yourself.

I found some websites that provide font-buiding tools or give you advice or guide the way to buid a font.

* Font struct: a free font-building tool --> http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/. Go there & express your creation in designing fonts.

the print-screen of Front struct website

* How to create a font ... take a look at this website http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Create_Your_Own_Font. It provides the steps of buiding the fonts.

* Some font-buiding softwares (commercial softwares)

TypeTool Basic font editor. Version 3.0 for Mac and Windows :TypeTool is our basic font editor for Mac OS and for Windows. For students, hobby typographers and creative professionals who occasionally need to create or customize fonts.

FontCreator - the most popular font editorThis professional font editor allows you to create and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts. It has the powerful drawing tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that allows beginners to become productive immediately.

Fontographer - Font editor for Desktop Publishing. Version 4.1 for Windows and 4.7 for Mac OS X : Easily expand existing fonts to include fractions, symbols, foreign characters, and logos in Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType fonts, or create an entire typeface from scratch. Fonts created with Fontographer can be used in any program with a font menu on Windows and Macintosh platforms. Fontographer is now integrated into the FontLab line of digital typography tools.