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How to Make a Font from Handwriting or an AI Image

A step-by-step GLIPH walkthrough: generate a glyph sheet, extract and label glyphs, fix crops, adjust spacing, edit vectors, and export a TTF font.

Step 1: Create Your Font Sheet

Step 2: Upload and Extract

Step 3: Label and Sort Glyphs

Step 4: Fix Missing or Badly Cropped Glyphs

Step 5: Adjust Size, Position, and Spacing

Step 6: Edit Vectors

Step 7: Generate and Save Your Font

Optional features

AI font generation

Themes

GLIPH / ASCII SPECIMEN 001

  SPECIMEN / 001                              FONT FILE  .TTF

   .:::::::::.   ::::::::      :::::::::      +---------+
  :+:       :+: :+:    :+:    :+:     :+:     |  .TTF   |
  +#+  +:+  +#+ +#+    +#+   +#+     +#+     |         |
  +#+ +#+#+ +#+ +#+    +#+   +#+     +#+     |         |
   #+#+# #+#+#  #+#    #+#    #+#     #+#     +----+    |
    ###   ###    ########      ########       |    |    |
                                              |    +----+
   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t    |         |
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  & ? @ # % * ! + =    +---------+

   hand-drawn or generated  ->  extracted  ->  vectorized
   GLIPH / a sheet of characters becomes a working font

GLIPH needs JavaScript to run the extractor. Enable JavaScript to upload a sheet and create a font, or read more at gliph.us.