I want to turn shapes into letters to make a font

[Toxic Rose]

I am making a font. I wrote the letters as paths and then made stroke outlines and turned the paths into shapes in illustrator. I exported the document to photoshop to make it easier. I want to save the letters as a new font. How do I do this?

[CMass]

Hey @Toxic Rose, 
Can you give an example of what you mean by Shapes into letters? 

^CM

[Conrad_C]

If you want to convert the shapes into a font you can use to type text in any software, it needs to be converted into a font file format, such as OpenType, that your operating system can use. I found a couple of websites that might do it like Glyphr Studio and Fontstruct, but I haven’t used them so this is not an endorsement or recommendation of them; I don’t know their pricing or if they are suitable for your needs.

Professional type designers use software such as Fontographer, which has been used for almost 40 years to make many of the fonts we use. But it’s expensive and complex. Part of the reason for that is something to keep in mind: To create a font, you’ll want to also think about both upper and lower case characters, numbers, a punctuation set, special characters, tuning how various characters look when combined next to each other, and the default spacing between characters.

The simpler font makers might help with automatic settings for some of those.

Moving the document to Photoshop will not help. Most fonts today are based on vector shapes, not pixels, so fonts are edited as vector paths. If a font designer starts in Illustrator, they will move those vector paths directly into font software where it will continue to be edited as paths. Fonts based on pixels are no longer common. This is because pixel-based fonts get jaggy when you scale or print them, but vector-based fonts are always smooth at any size or resolution.

[Semaphoric]

To do that, you should search the Web for Font Creation Software. There are many different levels of  comprehensiveness, price and licensing. Some are shareware or open source, and some developers have multiple tiers within the product range.

Using font design software enables you to set the kerning and leading for use as a font.

[Trevor.Dennis]

FontForge and Inkscape.  I've never used them, but it says that FontForge is open source (free) so I wonder if you have started something with this thread?  I shall be taking a look for sure.