r/typography

>!do you get it?!<

I found an awesome font online, that the creator put out for free, but the only problem with it is that the letters are a bit thick, I was wondering if there was a way to make the font have a thinner, thin, and thinnest option for it?

The font is Blenda Script, is this something I can pay a professional for? Where would I even go for this?

I'm an elementary school teacher. We've been doing a large unit on print making, and I had my students create upper-case alphabet stamps by cutting them out of potatoes. We made prints of each letter on plain white paper. You can see them here. Some are better than others - everyone participated, even those who struggle with fine muscle control!

In our English class we're learning about personification, and I think it would be such a fun project for the students to write a letter from the perspective of the potato. Even more fun is if they could type it in a font made from their potato stamp prints.

Is this either:

a) A challenge that someone thinks sounds fun and could help me with?

b) Something that I can reasonably easily do myself?

Thank you in advance for this admittedly unusual request!

For years now I’ve wanted to seriously get into type design. I took an evening course a while back, but honestly it didn’t help much. Then I bought Glyphs, but I mostly ended up using it for logos or tweaking existing fonts.

I really want to start designing type properly, but I have no idea where to begin, what kind of typeface to start with, and most of all I feel like I’m missing a solid methodology.
Is anyone here able to help or point me in the right direction? I’d really appreciate it!

Hey! I would really love to get into making my own fonts. I am therefore looking for software that can help me do that, and was wondering if this community had any recommendations?
I would have the following requirements for the software:

• Free (I just want to have a go at it and get into it)
• Simple enough for a beginner but advanced enough to make good fonts
• Able to make carefully designed lettering e.g. modern, sans serif fonts
• I would also love a way to turn my handwriting into a font using my pen tablet that I connect to my computer, but I understand this may require a separate piece of software
• MacOS Support

I do own the full Affinity suite if some of your recommendations require vector software.

Thanks so much!

And why are they (or are they not) Berkeley, Iosevka, & Input?

I used to follow so many people creating amazing typefaces and doing cool things in the type space until I lost access to my instagram :/

I remember some of them, but I need more inspiration in my life! They don’t have to have a social media presence. Bonus points if they provide free access for non-commercial use like Matthew Hinders-Anderson.

Few years ago I started making fonts, and putting them out there on gumroad. Right now I have 4 free for personal use (basically free download of full font) and 2 licensed recent fonts (you have to buy to download all weights), each of them have from 600 to 2000 downloads (and 50k+ downloads on sites that repost them). One even won an typography award on behance. Collectivly I've got 280$ from them all on gumroad.
At this time I'm heavily considering if I should continue to put my time in this and could I make a livable money in the perspective. So I'm asking your advice