We challenge you to:

Design your own font
(just a few letters)

If you are new to Inkscape, feel free to keep it simple.

Multiple entries are welcome, and please do stick around for the chat!

All abilities are invited to get involved. The complexity of your entry is down to you.

Please post your finished artwork below. 

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Please see CHALLENGE RULES before submitting your artwork

Instructions/Information

• To submit your artwork, scroll to the bottom of the page and while logged in, click the paperclip (bottom-left) to upload your image, add a description in the text box (optional) and click "Submit Reply".
• If you'd like to post work-in-progress artwork, create a thread in the "Work in Progress" section of the forum, and post your images there, with the title "[Month] [Year] [Challenge Title] WIP - [your artwork title]" (you are welcome to ask for help there if you get stuck). When finished, post the final graphic to this thread.
• There are no winners (HOWEVER, WE MAY SHARE ARTWORK WHICH STANDS OUT WITH THE INKSCAPE COMMUNITY). These challenges are intended to inspire, to encourage you to share your work and to build a supportive community.
• If you post your artwork here, you agree for us to share your artwork and use your artwork to create a banner for social media - to opt out, add "Please don't share" to your post.
• Please don't post artwork containing AI generated graphics or 3rd party images. as it can be hard to see what you (the artist) has produced using Inkscape.
• You're encouraged to discuss and offer feedback/constructive criticism to others, but please be respectful.
• Most importantly, be creative, give your best, and have fun!

We look forward to seeing your entries!

Challenge entries (so far)

Just to start this off, made this one about a year ago: https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85nautic-alphabets-color-font

Thanks for sharing that @Moini

Very interesting.
That must have taken some time.. Was it hard to convert to a working font?

I created the font shown in the banner a little while ago (all the lower case letters) but only in SVG, so far.
It is also, currently, without a name.

@pacer Yeah... it took a lot of research and finding the right scripts on GitHub, and correct formatting of the input... It was a long journey to get to a working color font (many days, from ancient public domain image to color font). It's quicker and much more streamlined with 'normal' fonts - although I think kerning is a tricky thing to get right with those. That, at least, was not an issue for this one above.

Created in September 2024 using inkscape and font forge.

You can download here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/209026745/Fonte-Comics-Free-Regular-e-Bold

That is a lovely font @eddy.dsgn

It's always good to see finished projects created with Inkscape.
Thank you for sharing your font with us.

Was this your first font design?

@pacer No. The image below shows the fonts I already made. The first was the one marked

Some ressources to begin with font making in Inkscape :

• Font terminology : https://kettlefirecreative.com/typography-explained-font-terminology/
• Interactive font cheat sheet : https://codepo8.github.io/typography-cheatsheet/
• Using the font editor in Inkscape : https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/creating-custom-fonts.html
• Video tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHwLLJC9wUw

This shows two fonts that I made last year. The smaller font is called Ebbtide. I made it using Inkscape and Birdfont. Unfortunately, the spacing and kerning in Birdfont doesn't work when used in MS Word or Inkscape. It is really frustrating. I have tried FontForge, but I'm not a rocket scientist! 🙄Maybe someone will develop an AI that allows one to upload fonts and automatically aligns spacing and kerning. 

I made the 'fancier' font merely using Inkscape. It is really a design and not a ttf. 

@Errol2003

Thank you for sharing your fonts...
It would be interesting to learn more about the issues regarding spacing/kerning to see if a beneficial workflow can be devised.

Rubber stamp font set incl bookbinding case made for a special occasion. Everything manufactured in our own workshop:

@Polygon That is incredible and the whole project is very well presented. Thanks for sharing!

Could you tell me more about how the rubber stamps were produced, if you don't mind?