Dragging a glyph with its baseline positions it correctly. You can see here how the inverted commas are now placed floating at the top of the character space. Now, you can drag a glyph together with its baseline into the Fontself panel, and it will be correctly positioned. Drag guides to the baselines to mark the vertical position of the characters. This is most accurately done by first switching to Outline view, so you can see precisely where to position the guides. The solution is to drag guides into place from Illustrator’s rulers, aligning them with the baseline of the glyphs. All glyphs are placed on the baseline, whether you want them there or not. When these are dragged into the panel, the default behavior is to place them on the baseline as well. This method works fine for fonts that sit on the baseline, but there are problems for floating glyphs such as inverted commas. Type the key you want to use to trigger the glyph. Once the glyph is in place, you can type its keyboard equivalent so that it can be triggered with that keystroke when the font is complete. Glyphs can be dragged one at a time into the Fontself panel. Here, we’re dragging the question mark symbol by itself, and dropping it onto the appropriate area of the panel. To turn the shapes into a font, you can select individual letters and drag them into the Fontself panel. Use small values in the Roughen filter to preserve legibility. By using very small Size and Detail settings, it’s possible to keep the font legible while making a clear difference. You can use any of Illustrator’s distortion filters to corrode the text here, we’re using the Roughen filter to randomize the outlines. Convert the text to outline mode using Type > Create Outlines. Turning the characters to Outline allows us to modify the paths directly.
To begin, we’ll type out a character set, including both upper and lower case, as well as numbers and any other punctuation marks and symbols we’ll need. In this article, we’ll look at the process of creating a new font based on an old classic: we’ll use Illustrator’s filters to corrode Helvetica and then build a font I call “Crudvetica” from the resulting glyphs. Fontself Maker works with Illustrator CC 2015.
Because it’s a plug-in rather than a separate application, you can use the Illustrator tools you’re familiar with to create personalized fonts with ease. Fontself Maker, the result of a 2015 Kickstarter campaign, is an Illustrator plug-in that allows you to create custom fonts directly from within the program.
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