#fontforge

i'm trying to italicise (as in, the slanty way) a preexisting offset font using fontforge, but it keeps giving me these same errors when i try to generate it:

i'm a total amateur to font design and fontforge, and i've tried everything that makes a moderate amount of sense to me, without any success. there seems to be nary a tutorial in sight.

I have seen a few witchblr post about using your own alphabet, and so I wanted to tell you the application FontForge is a free tool for creating your own fonts. If you have knowledge of graphic design, you can do really professional looking fonts, but if you’re a nob like me you can still create something both usable and good looking like this:

The developer(s) seem very kind people and work hard for having this tool free and open, and you can find very useful tutorials on youtube. Plus, you can add both symbols and letters with accent marks:

This is the working panel. What I did was using the straight line and the curve line and work with that, but you also have more tools, so you can experiment (in my case i didn’t want to spend a lot of time and wanted something that looked more like handwrite than a computer font, but that’s up to you!)

The only important thing is that you have to draw closed figures (you can’t just use one line). 

So, even tho no one asked about it, I was actually trying to force myself to draw more, and accidentally ended up working on a project I've been trying to be part of for a while now.

Not much to say, but I've been working on a font for isiBheqe soHlamvu, a written system created for languages of the south of Africa, like isiZulu, isiXhosa, isiNdebele, chiShona, xiTsonga, sheKgalagari, seSoto, etc etc. I even edited the whole Wikipedia page and looked for resources and how it works exactly.

I wanted to work on something around that, since the system may be a bit more complex for computers than it is for handwriting. I'm helping to create an app to learn how to use this system, and while it isn't that complicated to make the symbols for it, I actually wanted to create a way to write with it properly to make full sentences!

It's not much, and there's a lot to work on, but I've been advancing well with it so far. Anyway, with my head put on this, I hope it is of good use at the end of the day.