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HOWTO: Unleash the Awesome and Make Your Own Font

by Fontosaurus

This particular tutorial presumes that you have some working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and access to a copy of Fontlab.

That said, the font created here is available for download at www.fontosaurus.com.

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1. Get a Source File
2. Start Tracing
3. Finish tracing.
4. Save Your Work
5. Covert to black objects.
6. Set up a baseline.
7. Make a New Doc
8. Set up the Letterforms Again
9. Determine Baseline
10. Save as legacy EPS.
11. New Font Time!
12. Set UPM Value.
13. Set Ascender and Descender
14. Import the EPS Awesomeness
15. Import Results
16. This is the Basepoint!
17. Shuffle Your Glyphs
18. Adjust the Sidebearings.
19. Paste and Repeat.
20. Get it all into place.
22. Metrics Window
23. Spacing
24. Autospace
25. Autosettings
26. Select Kerning