how to make a custom font

[mollie sams]

I have a customer that wants 2 custom fonts lower case and caps. And im way over my head. please help 

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You've never done it?

You can of course use Illustrator to draw glyphs and then use FontSelf Maker (a commercial third party plugin) to make them into a font. You can also use it to adjust the negative space and such, but there are a lot of things to watch out for when making a font, so probably it would be a good idea to partner with an independent font designer.

If you want to investigate what needs to go into it, you will find a lot of tutorials on the Fontself website https://help.fontself.com/en/articles/889013-tutorials

There are other font editors as well, such as FontForge (Opensource), Birdfont (low priced) or Glyphs. All of them have tutorials so you can get a glimpse of what needs to be done when designing a font.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I also recommend FontSelf. 

[Myra Ferguson · Accepted solution]

There was an Adobe MAX session from 2020 that is available online for free about creating fonts with Laura Worthington and Debi Sementelli that goes through the process of making a font with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Font Self that might help:

• Sexy Scripts and Display Divas: A Look at Font Creation - S6118