Start from a complete font and make it yours, or fill only the letters you have not drawn yet.
Fill the gaps
Copies letters you have not drawn yet from a template, scaled to your metrics. Your own letters are never touched.
SVGOne drawing fills the current letter. A sheet with elements named after letters (id="A", data-char="b" or an SVG font) fills many at once.
ImageTraced into the current letter. Adjust the threshold below and trace again.
Font fileOpens TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 fonts for editing.
Handwriting sheetPrint the template, write, take a photo.
Trace settings
SVG sheet: drawings
Each drawing goes to the letter shown. Change a letter by typing in its box.
Print the template, write one character in each box with a dark pen, then take a photo or scan it.
letters found, need a look. Click a letter to fix it.
Your font is built right here in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.
WOFF2, WOFF and TTF files, a ready @font-face stylesheet and a specimen page.
Use your font
- Windows: open the file and click Install (or right click it and choose Install).
- macOS: double click the file, then click Install in Font Book.
- Linux: copy the file into
~/.local/share/fonts.
- Open your apps again. The font is listed as .
- Install it: on Windows open the file and click Install; on macOS double click it and click Install in Font Book.
- Close Word and open it again, then pick in the font list.
- Sending the document to someone without your font? In Word for Windows, turn on File, Options, Save, Embed fonts in the file. Word for Mac has the same switch under Preferences, Save. You can also send them the TTF.
- Canva also takes the TTF.
- In Canva, open Brand and your Brand Kit, find Fonts and choose Upload a font. Uploading fonts needs a Canva plan with Brand Kit, such as Pro or Teams.
- Choose the file and confirm you have the right to use it. You made it, so you do.
- In any design, open the font menu: is listed with your uploaded fonts.
- Menu names change from time to time. If you cannot find the button, search the Canva help for “upload fonts”.
- Unzip it and copy the
fonts folder and font.css next to your pages.
- Add this to your page:
- Site builders that accept custom fonts usually ask for the WOFF2 file; some ask for the TTF.
Project file
Projects save automatically in this browser. Keep a copy or move it to another device as a .fontsketch.json file.
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