PixLab:

It's one of my own custom font bases so you can use it with confidence. Link here...

Chunky Base

Thanks a lot Skinnyhouse, those are nice

Thanks Skinnyhouse.

Other than an "image" I don't know how to use them ,
So I did made them as a real font ( 1 as ttf and 1 as otf), now I can use my keyboard

(I remove them if you don't want)

I know it makes no sense to have a GIMP "wooden starship" and my moon looks like a golf ball but i'm so happy to have the Skinnyhouse's font

Patrice & Racer:

Patrice an idea if you haven't come across it ...

ok PixLab -- 405 is so kool ! and thats from a sci-fi fan too

Here is my glass sphere attempt from the tutorial
It took days for me to do not 35 mins
I think he is OK ..i am overly self-critical

That's clever how did you do it?

Great Job leftyleo!


I've Never made a font, it was quite epic...

Tried with Birdfont (sudo apt install birdfont) => cannot recognize svg or path properly not user friendly at all even if it looks alike and is beautiful, I spent to much time on it for nothing
Then I tried with fontforge (sudo apt install fontforge) => it was worse, I always got error importing svg "Your SVG has features that are not supported or blablabla"


Then I discovered > https://www.calligraphr.com (I used a 10 minute email to register, the free version has few limitation, but for what I need it was way more than I could have hope)
Then from that moment, everything went smooth, chose the letter you want, download their template > import in GIMP inside the skinnyhouse XCF > invert all letters color (to be black) > put each letter in its place on the different template > reduce each letter to 500 pixels > Export as png > upload on the website > download your fonts > got error as each letter have a hole inside
Go back to GIMP > Reduce each letter and character to 350 pixels height > upload to server > make font download > yeesss (although the H has a hole, so I think the layer character should be at 300 pixels, but it's ok for me)
Tip a template works only for the chosen characters, add 1 more character to your list -> need to download a new template
My template was the max size (they have 3 sizes to chose from)

the final .xcf I made wwith the templates

Thanks, but for a text along a path, I use the right click > then "text along path"
And let's face it, I don't understand the way "custom fonts" are working (I did tried, though)

I used BRL, Extrude 3D and one of my Chain brushes.

Converting a custom font to a real font - I nearly choked on my piece of toast this morning!

I began the font manipulating journey when I had my own real italic font (created in FontForge) and wanted to alter the size as it flowed along the path - then Wallace brought up the idea of emulating the old PhotoFont program in Gimp and Tim came up with a solution. FontSlab was my version! It just seems strange to come full circle back to where I started.

FontSlab is big with many options - I think I may try a simpler help guide.

Best of luck Patrice

Stroke path with butterflies ! wow i like that - Autumn is coming
i have to look for leaves

PixLab, Thank you for explaining how you made the font
racer-x, Good metallic look on your text, it suits that font really well
sallyanne, Lovely idea to extrude the butterfiles

I think the same Well done!

I open a thread with the Video to create a Glass Ball that Patrice gave us, I have tried to get the steps from the video.
Thanks Patrice.

Thanks Pocholo (plug-in) and Alan (custom font)

Issabella - thats amazing - everyone makes this stuff look so easy