How to make your own FONT! (Easy FREE DIY Method) 

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I work with fonts every day at work. The sheer volume of them is overwhelming. I learned early on never ask a client what font they'd like to use -- with all the choices available, they'll get stuck in analysis paralysis and everything will take ten times as long. Instead, I ask clients what emotion they'd like their font to project. Happy, scary, sad, elegant, etc. After I find that, then it's just about finding a font that speaks to me in that way. Happy Craftin'!

Hahaha years ago in the early 2000's a college professor wouldn't except a hand written outline for my upcoming paper because my handwriting was "terrible". He said it needed to be typed and printed. I spent days in the lab creating a font that mimicked my hand writing. He gave me an A for the assignment and some new "professional" font suggestions for the future. We are 2 peas in a pod Crafsman

"It's just as bad as I normally would do it!"

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid. So wholesome. And his voice is mega comforting to me

The rain on the mini shop window is the perfect example of why I love Crafsman so much.

could we get a 10 minute loop of the patreon background with the thunderstorm going and the little TV? I could watch and listen to that all day

I appreciate the thunder in the background, I like it when you don't go crazy with the colored lights too.

THE TRANSITIONS ARE AMAZING! The amount of production quality and effort that i’m seeing more and more of, each video is more and more exciting!

I love the sound of a monsoon rolling in. It's one of the most relaxing sounds out there, as long as the lighting doesn't strike near my house.

THAT is phenomenal my friend. I am making my own font. After I join to get your font. - Eric.

I'm a calligrapher, but I use old school pen and ink. This is awesome!!!

Crafsman you never fail to completely blow my mind. I have learned how to do SO many cool things from you -- and I actually do them. I learned how to 3D print from you, I learned how to cast in silicone molds from you, and now I learned how to make a font from you. I'm gonna make one right now.

I'm watching this in Texas in the middle of a big thunder and lightning storm so I feel like I'm right there with you, Crafsman! Loved this video so much! You might say, I'm very font of it! :-) Love your sense of humor and thought this was a really cool idea. I'm going to try it for sure. Congrats on your very own font!!

Douglas Hofstadter goes into this. Try his book Metamagical Themas. The idea of the Spirit of a letter and font is really intriguing. What makes an "A", an "A"? And so forth.

Hi crafsman, I love you, that is all okay bye!

This could be perfect for making D&D handouts for my players.

I knew I didn't need a custom font. Watched it anyway. Somehow, my brain took this random input and turned it into a thousand ideas for custom 3d printed fridge magnets. Thank you for that!

I seriously have always wondered if I could make a font of my handwriting... thank you CrafsMan!!!

As someone who has wanted to make their own comic books for a long time, but did not want to pay for a font. I thank you Mr. CrafsMan for this video.

"Remember to not unsubscribe, please." Have a little faith in us, Crafsman 🤣

I can’t believe I’ve only just found this creator. One of the best videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. Subscribed and Telling all My friends now

Craftsman in the morning!

I always used to ask myself, "hey, how do they even MAKE fonts?" Now I know. Thanks, Crafsman!

I love this font! Can't wait to see what words will be popping up on screen. I can almost see it now, "press and peel blue, ooooohhhhyeaaah" but the "ooooohhhhyeaaah" is all written out as it's said!

Cutting letters from different magazines and catalogs would be an awesome way to make a ransom note font. Love you, CrafsMan! Your videos are helping me get through a really difficult health crisis right now!

I really like how you can just decide one day that you want to learn how to make a font and do it. Also the montage with the gummy letters was super cool!

So... Relaxing... I could listen to him talk about literally anything

Love me the sound of that thunder in the background, and I had no idea making a font could be this simple. I always thought artists were making super precise mockups for hours and hours, maybe some are, but this is awesome!

Was that the “speak and spell” guy cameoed? “That is correct.” I loved every second of this video. Thank you.

Crafsman have you ever seen the documentary called "Helvetica"? Its a trip how popular that font was/is.

Man.. 5 years ago I wanted to make a font, but couldn’t then gave up, now you made my dream craftsman

the music youve been making is such a nice touch to all these videos

Turned out better than I thought it would! Also rain sounds in the background

Oh Crafs.... you gotta fill those notebook pages up baby! Put some doodles on the paper. Don't let them go to waste! Also Procreate has opened up SO many possibilities for artists like myself. To those who can't do an iPad price, but can get an iPhone, they also have an almost-perfect version for your handhelds too to use (and if you have a phone touch stylus similar to an Apple pencil with a fine tip you can draw on your screen too!) I've got a few fonts I designed a decade plus ago. Now that there's a place I can take my hand-drawn ones and put somewhere digitally, that'll make it SO much easier. Trouble is I've got like...30+ sketchbooks to go through now to find them. XD Thank you sir! Keep the rain coming. We just need like a 3 hours of rain and your voice video to put us into a comfortable Rip Van Winkle sleep.

Knocked this one out of the park! Thanks for the smiles

Hello crafsman, thank you for your videos! I have a severe disability. It affects a lot of my body and organs but the muscles are what relates to this message in particular. My muscles are so weak, I can't walk or even hold a pencil. I struggle to even use a phone but luckily I have some amazing tech that means I can use my wheelchair joystick as a mouse, or use my eye's gaze as a mouse if needed, tech is amazing! Anyway, back on topic - when I was younger I really loved hand writing letters to my loved ones. I obviously can't anymore. I can still text them, but it doesn't have the same personal touch. I'm so happy I found this video. I used a scan of my old writing to get a font of my handwriting. I can now use it to 'write' letters with my handwriting again. Every day it seems like I lose another ability but this gave me back one that I thought was gone forever, so I really can't thank you enough! I've spent all night in pain unable to sleep, so I've kept myself entertained by your videos. I love your style, humour and creativity. You are my new favourite RU-vid channel! I'll never be able to do these crafts by myself, but I love watching you create things. I think I may try doing some of the easier projects like shrinkydinks with my little sister. She can be my hands, and I'll be the instructor! Thank you again, much love and stay crafty!

It’s cool that you have your SC FILM font! It is very exciting!!👏🥳

This whole channel reminds me of Kindergarten arts and crafts. The creativity and simplicity of your videos just makes me smile. Thank you Crafsman🙂

Your videos are so joyful in a way that I can't quite put my finger on. Thank you so much for doing what you do!

Always wanted to make a font! Thank you for this video!

I love your videos and your humor! My husband is very humorous and after close to 35 years married, he will either make me laugh or eye roll..lol

I haven't made a font in forever. Done a few over the years. Poster fonts, pixel fonts. Recreated a couple of my favourites from games and such. Doing it by hand and getting it right takes weeks, but it's well worth it in the end.

I didn’t like some of the cursive capital letters they taught me in school, so I fixed them. Never thought about it, but you’ve made me realize that I made my own font years ago. You rock! 💕😎

As a graffiti artist, I loved this video. I suggest you to all my friends, thanks for being you.

Crafsman makes fonts more enjoyable, thank you Crafsman.

love love love thank you! idk why I was so amused and genuinely holding my breath to see if the font worked on your test sentence with the slow pan in and everything 😂 lol thanks again you brightened my search for font-making and I walked away with a new skill. love love

You have a wonderful voice and great videos that I find useful/relaxing. Have a great day!

The day is much better now. Thank you Crafsman 🥸

What’s great is how good the font actually is! Great job CM!🦾

Love the edits on these videos and all the b-roll footage. Music on point 🎵🎶

Sooooo excited to use this font & make my own! Thanks Crafsman!! Side note - that muffled rain at the end of the video soothed my soul.

Mr. The Crafsman, I am so glad you're back!!! I was missing my weekly dose of happiness!!!

I didn't know that I needed my own font until now. Thanks, Crafsman.

Craftsman! You're amazing. Never stop!

The crafsman is the 80est thing I have ever seen in my life!

Oh man these video qualities just keep on getting better

Everyday’s a good day when crafsman posts

Back in the 90's, I had a program that cost maybe $50 or so, that made ttf fonts based on the same idea. Now that I can do it for free, I have to get creative again. Thanks for making this and all your videos.

Thanks Crafsman. Now I have another rainy day project! :)

The thunder in the background is just... **chef kiss** So good.

Oh man, that whole patreon list of names looks fantastic in the new font ;)

thank you so much for this!!! I made a font the moment this video ended and I love it! it is a time saver!!!!! I used to have to cooy paste each letter and now I just type it! Thank crafsman!

My roommate once made a font entirely out of frogs and frog-like shapes, the madman. i used this site to make it a font for them. its unusable on a practical level, but i still love seeing "froggytype" in my font previews. reminds me to not take myself so seriously :)

Crafsman I'm really glad I found your vids, you do so much creative stuff and you're very calming. We just took in a stray kitty and I put on some of your videos and he is enamored with you, i think you're his favorite show!

TV in the shop? Nice Thank you for making this!

Oooooouuuuuu Craftsman!! I'm so early! I love your videos!! Pure ASMR❤️❤️❤️

Craftsman I have been watching you for about 4 years now and I wanna say thanks for your videos!!!!!

I just got to finish watching this video because this week has been a challenge to say the least. This is so good Crafsman! I'm excited to try making my own font, but my wife is THRILLED that you did this video. She's going to create some custom fonts for her paintings!!! Super cool. I also LOVE the old school film opticals that you did with you standing in the middle and your hair all catawampused and font images floating around. Everything about that part was superb!

I got to find out a way to make fonts and through just the most cozy video possible thanks crafts dude you rule

CrafsMan - I thought your rain was a train. :) Wonderful video - I love your font. It was an especially nice touch to put your patrons names in it. Thanks for letting us know about Calligrapher.

I want to make a font, after doing some thinking. Thank you for the weather sounds. I grew up in a place with summer thunderstorms, but now live in a place with regular drought. I miss rain.

i would not have expected this kind of video from this channel....

This was actually VERY useful. Thanks Crafman!!

I enjoy your stuff crafsman. Something to clarify though. TYPESET and FONT. typeset is the actual design of the lettering, the shapes, sizes ,etc. FONT is the creation of the typeset using SOFTWARE. Typeset isn't covered in the US by copyright. FONT is very much protected by copyright. It's all about how the FINAL creation is done. If it is created and executed USING computer software..its a font. Letraset is the original creator of dry transfer lettering. It opened up a whole wide world of creative possibilities for graphic designers.

Aw yea! Monday morning crafs video

This is so funny, having a laugh whilst learning something....my life has changed, I thank you😂

Love the exciting camera work you used in this video! Thanks for linking the website in the description.

As someone who wants to make comics (eventually... Eventually i swear) this is a great tool to make everything look handmade without all the time! Thanks for sharing this mr crafsman!

The letters look great

This is awesome. And you made it very clear how to do it. Thank you sir.

this is my 1st time on this channel. And I did not expect to watch this video in its entirety. You got me, great job. This accent reminds me of home. lol

Everything about this channel is so aesthetically pleasing and so uniquely Crafsman. I love Crafsman :D

Thank you for making this video. I will be looking to making fonts. Thank you for finding this free program. Love your videos, they always cheer me up.

Letters and numbers. Beautiful. Thank you for just being there, being you. Today I had a awful day and this fixed it.

I've been wanting to make a font of my left slanting handwriting for YEARS! And now I can! Thank you CrafsMan!

Was really neat to see a bit of your set when it comes to filming, I'd watch an entire video on setting up cameras and lights.

Oh my goshhhh THANK YOU Crafsman!! I reallyy wanted to learn how to do this! You really inspire me ❤

Thought that said FRONT for a minute, Crafsman bouta show us how to make an illegal business 😂😂

Not exactly what I'm looking for but I can't stop watching! lol This is great content

What a great resource! And I can't imagine how much time it'll save for video work that uses things like stop motion animation titles.

Oh wow! I've been wanting to make a font out of a alphabet I created while doodling at my old job, but all the methods I found were REALLY time intensive. This is so exciting! :D

Totally re-watching because I accidentally watched on Facebook and I want to make sure it helps your results in the algorithm. Keep Steady Craftin'

I made my own font in the EARLY 80's it was bubbly. Fron 1988-1998 my career was centered around FONTS, many of you might have used my work. I was in publishing designing text books for Goodheart-Willcox, AutoCAD anyone? Then when the internet got popular I collected all the "free" fonts I could, somewhere is a CD of fonts.

Thank you for showing us how to do this. 😀

This is great stuff, I love your videos and all the stuff you show people.

love the new mini studio end card

I didn't know it was that easy to make a personalized font, thanks a lot !

Yeah ya right bruh. Reminds of my old Graffiti days. Trying out new fonts and then styling into my own. Never thought of downloading and inputting anything. Your lessons are more useful. This video was very helpful as well as information instructional and just out right fun. If you had a class I would definitely sit in on it to learn more. Okay. Eh Les Bah Mon Ami.

Succinct, accurate and wonderfully encouraging. This is going to be the next project I do with my grandsons! Thanks!