How does one create a font ?

[Xer0botXer0]

Hi people,

I'm wondering how one goes about creating a font, with customized characters, is it created using sprite art or what ? I'd like to be able to use my own font for my games.

 

[Carnivius]

Sprite fonts are easily added to GM by setting them out like a sprite sheet and using draw_set_font to assign them and then displayed as text with draw_text.

 

[GVmG]

Carnivius is right.

And if you want to actually make a pixel/bitmap font, and download it as a font file to use it with other programs, you can use BitFontMaker2.

There's also a website to make normal fonts in a similar "grid-like style", there's FontStruct.

Both of those are completely free.

If you feel like trying something more advanced, controlling the font way mroe in-depth than the other two, you can try FontArk. Unfortunately it's only free for a limited amount of time, and I've never tried it so I don't know how good it is, but the concept seems alright.

EDIT: note that all of those create actual font files that you have to install (I think FontArk does that too, I never used it so idk, but that seems to be the case).

 

[Xer0botXer0]

Oh nice.. I'll have to see if there's a tutorial on this, could be fun creating the alphabet in a funky manner