Fontself - make your own fonts 4+
Vector Calligraphy Handwriting
Fontself SAS
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- $29.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPad Screenshots
Description
Create real vector fonts in seconds, and use them anywhere (Procreate, Photoshop, Mac, PC, etc.)
It’s really easy: just draw letters & enjoy typing with your custom typefaces. Fontself turns your alphabet into a font file you can install on any computer.
Fontself is a font creation app that allows you to draw handmade fonts, export them as OpenType files.
Key superpowers:
- Vector brushes (Brush, Pencil, Pen, Qalam reed pen & Marker)
- Pressure-sensitive brushes (via Apple Pencil)
- Export OpenType font files (.otf) to use on any Mac or Windows PC
- Preview in real-time sample texts as you draw
- Showcase your fonts by viewing or sharing customizable layout templates
- Save hours of tedious work with automated spacing & kerning
Streamlined workflow:
- Draw & generate vector fonts in a single app
- Export your fonts straight into Procreate to use them on your designs
- Manually upload fonts for instant use on Canva, Photoshop, Illustrator or else
Yes, it’s the hard truth: making actual fonts is usually a painful process which requires countless hours learning complex software, outstanding eagle-eye type design expertise, and working forever as a 14th century monk on arduous tasks like spacing and kerning your glyphs.
But at Fontself we aim to bring easy font creation to all, and thus provide you with an enjoyable app so anyone can embrace this cool medium: typography.
Fontself is powered by our advanced vector-brush engine developed from scratch and crafted with passionate indy designers & developers to match calligraphers and letterers demands. You will also benefit from over 20 years of expertise in this field, because our goal has always been to truly democratize type-making. We call this #Typocracy :)
The Fontself app on iPad is still a young work-in-progress so we will improve its features based on your feedback. And we plan a lot more typographic fun in the months & years to come. Yeah!
We hope you enjoy this app: if so, please leave a review, and in any case we are eager to see what you will create, and to learn how it can better suit your needs.
... and Welcome to Typocracy ;)
What’s New
Version 1.6.11
Performance and stability improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Good but…
I love that I now have a font of my hand writing and how easy it was to write out each glyph, but there are issues.
1: the app is not intuitive for making corrections to the glyphs. I don’t know how to access that part of it.
2: the bottom line (the y and z) are not easily accessible. In trying to write the tail of the y, there wasn’t enough space with no way to scroll up to write it smoothly.
3: the in app tips when first using it isn’t completely clear and they disappear with a quick bump before getting to read and understand them fully.
I came across mention of your app via a tutorial for something else and didn’t realise I would need to find specific tutorials just to learn how to use it.
Other than the above so far, I do like the app.
Developer Response ,
Thanks, could you please help us solve your issues? You can contact us with more details about your struggles within the in-app chat or by email: hi@fontself.com
Screenshots or videos will help for the editing / scrolling questions, and for the tips, try checking the What's New videos in the Help icon as they provide more visual insights on using the app.
An absolute gem of an app
I’m so so glad that the Fontself app exists. I don’t have/use photoshop or illustrator so I can’t use the Fontself extensions for them and other font creation software is cumbersome to use, outrageously expensive (at least for what I want) or both. With Fontself drawing out font characters feels intuitive and the tools as well as the interface are easy to grasp. You can preview your font including character and word spacing as you create it, copy across whole characters or parts of them to save time when drawing others, auto-smooth drawn lines, and fine tune your characters as they are vector drawings (won’t be pixelated and can have points repositioned).
Pretty good app :)
It’s very easy to use, and you can make some good fonts with it - I recommend downloading if you want to have a go making fonts
App Privacy
The developer, Fontself SAS, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Fontself
- Size
- 185.1 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Fontself SAS
- Price
- $29.99
- In-App Purchases
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- FUN Pack $19.99