Editing letters in Fonts

pintsize52

Hi All,

I was just wondering would anyone recomend software either photoshop / Flash for editing actual letters within fonts, The problem i am having is i want to put up a site for my brothers new business and the guy who gave him the graphics is taking forever to supply him with the graphics, They are done simply enough except for an "Exageration" on one letter which really makes it look well. I ahve most photo editing software and i was just wondering what ones the good readers of this bord might reccomend ?

projectmayhem

give this a go

not sure if it's good for editing fonts, but it's free so it can't hurt to try

Gordon

Well, you can just exaggerate the specific letter on a new layer on Photoshop.

If you really want to edit the font file itself then there are a couple of things you can do:
- recreate the font using font software
- output the font to an eps or similar vector output to a vector program such as Illustrator and manipulate the vectors of the letter

Hence - font software: My favourite was Fontographer but now I use an open source program called Fontforge.

pintsize52

projectmayhem wrote:

give this a go

not sure if it's good for editing fonts, but it's free so it can't hurt to try

Brilliant thank you Hopefully this will sort me out

pintsize52

Gordon wrote:

Well, you can just exaggerate the specific letter on a new layer on Photoshop.

Please forgive my ignorance but how do i go about doing that. The letter in question is an A that swings down to the next word.... I suppose i could do it on different layers.... Im probably being lazy lol. Ill give this font forge a go and see how i get on i guess

Gordon

Without knowing exactly what 'exaggerate' means I don't think anyone can tell you how to do it.

If you are saying that the A needs to be a few pixels lower then simply create a new layer - exporting a fresh font a few times will take longer in the long run than moving it down surely?

Oh, I forgot, you don't need a font program to convert text into vectors, you can use a vector program like Illustrator to convert. Therefore you can alter the vectors of the A on Illustrator and drag it into Photoshop as a rasterised image.

pintsize52

Gordon wrote:

Without knowing exactly what 'exaggerate' means I don't think anyone can tell you how to do it.

Basically what i mean is that its two words

McNAMEE
TYRES

The A sweeps down in a semi-circle to touch the T almost like the curve of the road

sdssarah

yeah Id go with illustrator so you can change the size if you want.

5uspect

Flash would be good too.
You could even make the two blend into each other is an animation.