Ok so this is not a work of art but it sure was fun and there is a potential to do so much more with this app. It’s called iFontMaker and it’s available for both the ipad and the iphone.
Do you need a custom font for a design project? Do you need a webfont that is scalable on a browser? Then give this a whirl during the break.
It’s really pretty simple – there are hints as to where the font character might be be it serif or san serif typeface and you either trace it with a calligraphic style brush or a blunt brush. I chose here to just make little Christmas style dingbats as much as I could think of and then publish that.
When you’re done with the alphabet both upper and lower as well as numbers and other characters you can publish the font and they will turn it into a system font for you as well as a web font that you can use on your web pages. Here is a link to mine! Above I opened it in Adobe Illustrator – I can scale it type with it and apply colors to it as well as continually edit it if I wish. Pretty cool huh?
If you need to make a custom font for someone this app makes it pretty easy to create one!