Create Your Own Fonts – I Tells Ya!

After reading a number of geeky tech newsletters last week, I’ve decided that learning should not be droll. It seems that most technical newsletters are out to impress you instead of helping you learn. So this week I’ve attempted to make you smile will stuffing your skulls with useful or fun information…which leads me to this particular piece of rambling.

How many of you like fonts? Wow! All those hands in the air! It looks to be like most of you like fonts. Well, I like fonts too. Whereas my partner and nemesis EB likes one font – Verdana – I like a myriad of fonts and I change my email font regularly. Like a few months ago I stuck with the boring but serviceable Arial font. Then I became enamored with Calibri. Now I’m into Segoe UI. Who knows what I’ll be into next month.

Maybe some of you still don’t know that if you use fonts other than the ones most people have installed on their computers, they will see your fancy font as whatever their default font is. So using a fancy font like Witches Brew Sans might look swell to you, if you sent a email written in that font to a friend who does not have Witches Brew Sans installed, they’ll see it as Arial or whatever their default font is. And yes my intrepid friends, there are ways around this, but none of them are particularly easy enough you’ll want to do it just to write a fancy email in some weird font.

However, you can create images and use your fancy fonts in them and everyone can see them the way you see them. Which leads me to this — and don’t worry, I’m quickly (gradually?) coming to the point. Since most of you like fonts and graphics, what better way to demonstrate your computer superiority and your magnificent and deep well of creativity more than creating your very own font and sticking it in a graphic and pasting your work all over you favorite social media site?

Until now, creating a font took many hours of work and a lot of skill and patience. But as Picasso once said – “Good artists borrow, great artists steal” The site I am about to present to you — don’t you love the suspense? -lets you take an existing public domain font and modify and goof around with it until you’ve created your very own font. What site lets you do this, you say? Not so fast! Not so fast! You have to look at my font first!

Isn’t it sweet! Remember – good artists borrow and great artists steal. I am only a good artist I guess – I borrowed a public domain font and modified it to make it my own. I call it “Bad Bad EB Sans”. You like? Of course you do!

Now, how would you like to make your own fonts and make dazzling, eye-catching, colorful graphics like mine 🙂 to show off your font-making skills? How easy is it to make a font on this site – can you slide a slider? Yes? Then you’re golden.

The site is called Metaflop – and no, I don’t know why. Go forth now and create fonts and dazzle your friends and frighten your enemies. Visit Metaflops  font modulator here.