Download Fontself Free
Lane Arcano
I attempted to import shapes into the fontself extension on illustrator 2021 (latest version at the time of posting)
The issue is the long loading time or the lack of loading at all.
A few weeks back, ALSO with illustrator 2021, I can load shapes 1 at a time. But now I cannot import anything in a timely manner, or at all.
Also I find your links very interesting and helpful as well as the description of your own design process (assigning glyphs names the the layers.). I will look deeper into the overall design process of fontself for future fonts I make!
I am also very interested in this style of font creation.
I have read that in other font software there is the option to turn of auto-closing and auto outlining of fonts and then users rename the file extension of an exported .ttf to .opf after the export using the settings above.
Sadly there appear to be only a couple of software programs that accept the .opf font format but I hope this expands.
Would this be a possibility for a future fontself update perhaps?
Fontself is also one of the most simple way to venture into a cool new graphic filed, color fonts, and Monika actually wrote about her experience leveraging both to do some pretty awesome color font designs: -a-color-font-with-illustrator-fontself-in-one-afternoon-814155df0a...
As the Fontself Maker user community keeps growing (it started gathering during a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015), it is now about to produce a whole new generation of typefaces, chromatic fonts and colour fonts, leading to a typographic renaissance that will benefit to the whole design community. Find out more at www.fontself.com.