is there a way to design your own font?

[drizl]

i like my handwriting, and i have to make some brochures about these water fountains i am designing and trying to sell at garden centers and to individuals. does anyone know of a way that i can design my own font? i was thinking that i could scan my writing of a-z, then take it into paint or photoshop and zoom in and trace it with that pixelly=dot-bitmap thingy and then save each character and then somehow import them into some kind of text editor if it exists within word? confusing for me and i came up with the idea. there has to be a better way... please help. i'll give five bucks to whoever figures it out for me.

[drizl]

i swear to god i will give you five bucks.. im sorry, but thats all i can afford at the moment.

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah, we designed our own fonts in second year design, but we didn't put them into a text editor. but i know that it is not difficult at all. you'd be able to find a text editor of sorts somewhere on the internet.
as for actually creating the font, you'll need adobe illustrator.
scan in each letter individually and save as a bitmap. then import into illustrator. then vector trace around each letter. then you have vector images of each letter (which you can save in whichever format you want)
then import them into the aforementioned text editor. easy.

[drizl]

nice:) i will keep note. competition ends in 23 hours, 57 minutes, 36 seconds.
good news is, your winning.

[camo]

fontographer my friend. But once you start messing about with the kerning and letter spacing you'll wish you hadn't started.

trust me. I'm a pro

[tracky]

i know corel can do it and it's fairly simple just really time consuming

[TAL]

i could scan my writing of a-z
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