Anyone know if there is a way to turn letter brushes into fonts

Very impressive! I think Rod knows a way to use inkscape to create a svg, then render the font in Font Factory. He'll have to give you the low down.

Yes you can do it in Inkscape.You will however have to convert the PNG image into an SVG file first.
step 1) create your brush image
step 2) open in inkscape and trace it into an SVG
step 3) save the svg file
step 4) follow the video tutorial below


Online font converter (free)
http://onlinefontconverter.com/

Fontstarter.svg file
http://www.box.net/shared/ohvifhn2ox

Website
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010 ... ape-dings/

PDF download
http://cleversomeday.files.wordpress.co ... ngbats.pdf

I turned it into an True Type Font.It didn't turn out all that great because it has many paths but it is complete.Although i somehow lost the cap T and had to create a new one.
It is attached here.

Example type


You will find it listed as Fancy_Rod in your font list

I'm not sure what happened but this is what I get. The C doesn't show up and the letters are random sizes. This was done in all caps. The real kicker is check out the settings for horizontal and vertical spacing in the text dialog!

Yes i know it is because they have spirals on them.Inkscape sees them as the same height but that height includes the spiraly things coming off the letters.
I have no idea what happened to the C
The best way to use the font will be one letter at a time.

What would probably work best is to just create one letter at a time and transfer it to Inkscape - trace it and then create a font with just the one letter.That or cut the bottom off every letter.That would kind of kill the cool look of the font though.

Another thing I noticed that was kind of weird. When I was putting these in my files, I was trying to rename them with letters instead of just numbers so I could tell which was which in the folder. When I tried to change the file name, the image of the letter itself changed case and appeared differently, ie, changed from lower case to upper case. Weirdness? Go figure...

It looks like it would take a LOT of work to convert those characters into a font. They have a lot of detail. Then there is the issue of the shading inside the characters. I don't recall ever seeing a gray-scaled font. Usually fonts are just solid black. I've seen some fonts that appear to have gray, but that was done with very fine lines/pixels - and the resulting font file was very large and slow to render. Plus those brushes have a shadow/glow around the characters, something that is usually done after the font is rendered.

Well, there is always photofonts: http://www.photofont.com/

-Rob A>

Did works with gimp ? or may install photophont system wide ?