Tutorial

• 1. Font and glyph creation
  • 1.1. Font creation
  • 1.2. Creating a glyph
• 2. Creating a glyph using spiros
  • 2.1. Step 1
  • 2.2. Step 2
  • 2.3. Step 3
  • 2.4. Step 4
  • 2.5. Step 5
  • 2.6. Step 6
  • 2.7. Step 7
  • 2.8. Step 8
  • 2.9. Step 9
  • 2.10. Step 10
  • 2.11. Step 11
• 3. Importing Outline Glyphs
• 4. More on glyphs
  • 4.1. Navigating to glyphs.
  • 4.2. Creating the letter “o” – consistent directions
• 5. Creating letters with consistent stem widths, serifs and heights
• 6. Accented glyphs, ligatures, lookups and features
  • 6.1. Building accented glyphs
  • 6.2. Creating a ligature
  • 6.3. Lookups and Features
• 7. Metrics, spacing and kerning
  • 7.1. Examining and controlling metrics
  • 7.2. Kerning
• 8. Glyph variants and anchoring marks
  • 8.1. Glyph Variants
  • 8.2. Anchoring marks
• 9. Conditional Features
  • 9.1. OpenType Example
  • 9.2. Apple advanced typography
  • 9.3. OpenType, Greek ligatures
• 10. Checking and generating a font
  • 10.1. Checking a font
  • 10.2. Bitmaps
  • 10.3. Generating a font
  • 10.4. Font Families
  • 10.5. Final Summary
• 11. Working with Bitmap Fonts
  • 11.1. Opening & Importing Bitmap strikes
  • 11.2. Creating Bitmap strikes
  • 11.3. Bitmap Properties
  • 11.4. Creating a new bitmap only font
  • 11.5. Bitmaps in the Font View
  • 11.6. Editing Bitmaps
  • 11.7. Sparse Bitmap Strikes
• 12. FontForge Scripting Tutorial
  • 12.1. A simple example
  • 12.2. Other Examples
• 13. Special thoughts for special scripts
  • 13.1. Special thoughts for special scripts

Tutorial in other languages

Tutorial in Japanese

Tutorial in German