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Sash_EX
Sash_EX
Participant
September 30, 2017
Question

Creating a universal font document (.otf .ttf) with CC?

  • September 30, 2017
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I love Photoshop. ive done some powerful things with it like 3d .gif and all sorts.. so I'm assuming this should be easily possible. can someone please point me in the right direction? do I need to download a plugin? when searching online I get drowned out by standard tutorials on how to add font to an image but cannot find this specifically.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
September 30, 2017

A font is a font. You need dedicated software to create it. This has nothing to do with Photoshop at all. You draw out basic contours in a vector graphics program and then finetune the properties like kerning in tools like FontStudio or whatever tool you use.

Mylenium

Sash_EX
Sash_EXAuthor
Participant
September 30, 2017

it just seems like it wouldn't be that hard for photoshop to convert an image into a glyph considering I can define brushtips and patterns... is there an adobe vector program or will I need to outsource?

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
September 30, 2017

Why should PS even do that? I'm not following you here. Fonts simply work completely different from brushes or whatever. Adobe has no font creation program, though of course you can create the mere contours in a million ways. In PS one workflow might be to convert selections to vector paths and export them as AI or SVG files, but you still need to import them into a dedicated font tool to get anything useful out of it in the sense of actually being able to type out letters.

Mylenium

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