Fun & (mostly) Free Tools for Nonprofits: 5 Sites to Create Your Own Font

As a nonprofit, it’s not a bad idea to take advantage of affordable, if not free, tools, especially when they help provide originality to your site and social posts. One method to improving your creativity? Font. A method to improving your font’s originality? Creating your own. That’s why we’d like to review a few of the best sites to create your own font. There are options for several different preferences.

iFontMaker

  • This is specifically designed for iPads so you can draw your own font by hand with a stylus, making it efficient as the learning curve is lowered
  • You can then adjust the font’s strokes with bezier tools
  • It also allows you to upload your new font into Photoshop or other Mac software systems
  • If you love your original font, you can make it public and see what traction it gains
  • Cost: $7.99

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CR8 – Type Light

  • If you don’t like drawing out a font by hand, this may be a better option. Type light allows you to create and/or edit OpenType (scalable for Microsoft & Mac systems), TrueType (looks the same on screen as it does printed) and PostScript (for professional use, Adobe products) fonts.
  • Unlike iFontMaker, it was designed for desktop so it might be a better option if you don’t use a tablet
  • Free for non-commercial use

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Font Constructor

  • If you like the idea of using pre-designed pieces and simply moving them around, this is your guy. Designed as an instruction tool for students, it allows you to understand the relationship between shapes throughout the alphabet.
  • Provides you with shapes / pieces of fonts so you can easily move them around to create an original font
  • Free

My Script Font

  • Takes a font that you create by hand – on a sheet of paper – and downloads it onto a computer to input into digital documents
  • You don’t need a tablet / stylus to design a font by hand – My Script Font allows you to go old-school
  • Gives your notes, thank you letters and the like a more personal feel than typing them out in a typical font would
  • Free

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FontStruct

  • Using geometric shapes (similar to Font Constructor), you design fonts by inputting the shapes into a grid
  • Downloads the font as a TrueType Font, allowing you to plug it in to many applications
  • Like iFontMaker, you can make these fonts public
  • Free


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For some help on generating the right font for your nonprofit, contact ArcStone today. You can also take a look at the blog, “3 Questions to Ask When Picking a Typeface.”