We challenge you to:

Design your own font
(just a few letters)

If you are new to Inkscape, feel free to keep it simple.

Multiple entries are welcome, and please do stick around for the chat!

All abilities are invited to get involved. The complexity of your entry is down to you.

Please post your finished artwork below. 

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• There are no winners (HOWEVER, WE MAY SHARE ARTWORK WHICH STANDS OUT WITH THE INKSCAPE COMMUNITY). These challenges are intended to inspire, to encourage you to share your work and to build a supportive community.
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• Most importantly, be creative, give your best, and have fun!

We look forward to seeing your entries!

Challenge entries (so far)

Just to start this off, made this one about a year ago: https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85nautic-alphabets-color-font

Thanks for sharing that @Moini

Very interesting.
That must have taken some time.. Was it hard to convert to a working font?

I created the font shown in the banner a little while ago (all the lower case letters) but only in SVG, so far.
It is also, currently, without a name.

@pacer Yeah... it took a lot of research and finding the right scripts on GitHub, and correct formatting of the input... It was a long journey to get to a working color font (many days, from ancient public domain image to color font). It's quicker and much more streamlined with 'normal' fonts - although I think kerning is a tricky thing to get right with those. That, at least, was not an issue for this one above.

Created in September 2024 using inkscape and font forge.

You can download here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/209026745/Fonte-Comics-Free-Regular-e-Bold

That is a lovely font @eddy.dsgn

It's always good to see finished projects created with Inkscape.
Thank you for sharing your font with us.

Was this your first font design?

@pacer No. The image below shows the fonts I already made. The first was the one marked

Some ressources to begin with font making in Inkscape :

• Font terminology : https://kettlefirecreative.com/typography-explained-font-terminology/
• Interactive font cheat sheet : https://codepo8.github.io/typography-cheatsheet/
• Using the font editor in Inkscape : https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/creating-custom-fonts.html
• Video tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHwLLJC9wUw

This shows two fonts that I made last year. The smaller font is called Ebbtide. I made it using Inkscape and Birdfont. Unfortunately, the spacing and kerning in Birdfont doesn't work when used in MS Word or Inkscape. It is really frustrating. I have tried FontForge, but I'm not a rocket scientist! 🙄Maybe someone will develop an AI that allows one to upload fonts and automatically aligns spacing and kerning. 

I made the 'fancier' font merely using Inkscape. It is really a design and not a ttf. 

@Errol2003

Thank you for sharing your fonts...
It would be interesting to learn more about the issues regarding spacing/kerning to see if a beneficial workflow can be devised.

Rubber stamp font set incl bookbinding case made for a special occasion. Everything manufactured in our own workshop:

@Polygon That is incredible and the whole project is very well presented. Thanks for sharing!

Could you tell me more about how the rubber stamps were produced, if you don't mind?

"Compost Bold" is a font for COMics & POSTers. 
The font is designed in Inkscape and then transferred to Birdfont* in order to align and kern the glyphs. Inkscape is way more easier and effective for the design of the glyphs.
It was a time-consuming project. To think that I had to fix 492 kerning pairs, one by one... Afterwards I found out that there was an easier way to do it.😭
To create the letters (caps for both cases, except for the two versions of 'I' (I-i)), I used the Fira Sans Compressed font (bold) as a reference. Can "Compost" be considered as a modified version of Fira Sans? I 'm not sure, since it's rather a different font and can easily stand by its own.
Probably there are more things to fix (e.g., the spacing between words) but anyway, here are the ttf files, both for Mac and Windows/Linux:Click Here  -If anyone wants to use it or just check it🙃
All text in my two specimens is made with Compost, except for the words inside the red rechtangle for the poster example and the words "Inkonic's" & "Vol.0" for the comic example.

*Although most people use Font Forge and there are more tutorials on YouTube about it than for Birdfont, I choose for the latter. Font Forge's UI looks so outdated and more complex than Birdfont.
@Errol2003  I don't understand what you mean, "Unfortunately, the spacing and kerning in Birdfont doesn't work when used in MS Word or Inkscape.". It really worked fine for me! Did you export the ttf file of your font and then installed it on your device?

pacer

Could you tell me more about how the rubber stamps were produced, if you don't mind?

Sure. I once made a display case to demonstrate the process a little better at exhibitions, because we still use materials that you don't normally come into contact with and no longer can, because there are no more daylight reversal films and photo developer fluids, no more synthetic resins to buy and the last rubber factory closed down three years ago. So we are the last dinosaurs and are dying out - unless I invest a five-figure sum in a Co2 laser plus extraction system to laser vulcanised rubber sheets. Translated version:

Last year I finally started the process of making a font. I used Inkscape and fontforge. The intention of this first font was to make it with my own handwriting and a test of the whole process. 

@Polygon That is fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

It's a shame that the materials are no longer available. I would have loved to try something like that.

@Gaillycool Well done!🧐

@Polygon WOW, what an elaboration and procedure!😯 Very interesting!

@Inkonic thank you

Let's start with something geometric I made in 2018 to timestamp my signature.
I only use it in vector version, not turned it into real font though.

//// RESOURCES

Additional font : Rockwell

Background : https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/abstract-geometric-colorful-background_3488524.htm

The next one was also made in 2018.

Nothing to say about shapes - pretty commons on electronic circuits for example. The specificity is that each letter are strokes only (no fill). So you can change weight directly with stroke style.

SVG source available on OCAL :  https://openclipart.org/detail/295880/rouded1-typeface