Creating fonts

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February 11, 2021
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Hi There.

Is there any way to create a font from an image using Illustrator that can be used in MS Office.

I want to be able to use one image for now in documents as a font.

I have tried saving the vectorised image as an SVG file but its not recocnised as a font.

I have then tried to convert the SVG to a TTF using an online converter but still no luck.

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Monika Gause

It can be done in InDesign using the IndyFont script. The free version can create a font with one letter in it.

Apart from that there is the plugin Fontself (already mentioned by Jacob)

There are also free and cheap font editors like FontForge and Birdfont.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

For my part you are welcome, Julie.

I for one hope you will report your findings. It is good to know which suggestions best suit different needs/uses/backgrounds. My second thought was the one glyph IndyFont which Monika suggested first, but I left it out because it requires your using InDesign for it which may suit you fine, also with its being free; and I never thought of free font editors.

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julieb73036399Author

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Will do.

If I can crack this it will save me a lot of time in the future.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Julie,

For that purpose, this may be suitable, at a managable price,

http://www.fontself.com/

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julieb73036399Author

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Thank You Jacob.

Will give it a look.

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No, a font must be made by a specialist font editing tool. Adobe do not make one. Making fonts that work well is much more difficult than it seems like it is going to be, I suggest you work with an inline graphic instead.