

Kerning pairs birdfont license#
One important thing: Birdfont's free version only lets you apply the SIL Open Font License (see below for more info). These are also free (or have limited free versions), but work on your computer and tend to be a big step up from the web apps: Fontsy, which helps you edit Bitsy fonts.BitFontMaker2, which lets you make pixel fonts and has a gallery of fonts people have made public.

Kerning pairs birdfont trial#
Here's a bunch of free (or free trial versions of) font design apps (click to open/close): Free web apps Always check a font's license before using it, to make sure it's eligible for your use! Sources: Alegreya (jam title), Old Cupboard, Just for Fun, Old Stamper, Robort, LCD Mono, Tostada, Freelance Kamchatka, Stardate 81316, Drum N Bass, oozing, MicroStyle, Painting with Chocolate, PieceOfCake, Zoltank, VCR OSD Mono, Razor, Beholden, Slice. If you've got questions then check out the discord! Unless, of course, you're actually of the relevant ethnicity, in which case do what you want. an imitation Japanese calligraphy font made solely of English characters and named 'Rising Sun-Regular.ttf'). I mean both generic 'tribal' and 'chop suey/wonton' fonts as well as more specific ones (e.g. License and price them as you see fit (there's some suggestions for licenses below).Ī quick note on 'ethnic' fonts: Don't submit these to the jam. So here's FontJam, a jam for making fonts! Doesn't matter whether it's your first or your hundredth, whether you tend to make digital games or analog (or something else entirely, like comics, poetry, photography, classic wooden puppets, whatever), but your entry (or entries) should be stuff you make during the jam. Unlike most other parts of your typical analog game, fonts are one of the few things that people not only don't often custom-make, but can't make. I wanna help change that, because it's easier than ever to get into font design, and as easy as ever to search for just the right font for and come up empty-handed. I feel like fonts are a kinda black-box to most people-something to look up online or find already installed on your computer, but not really something to make.
