I Made a Dingbat Font with Inkscape

Buried in Inkscape .47 is the ability to make your own SVG fonts. Kay at cleversomeday has been nice enough to take the time to figure out how to use the inkscape tool to create the SVG fonts and how to convert the svg font into a ttf font that you can use in inkscape and Sure Cuts A Log and Make the Cut to make cuts! Please go to her blog and get the tutorial if you are as excited as we were about making our own fonts.
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/inkscape-dings/



Buried in the directories on my computer I have many svg files with silhouettes in them. I decided to turn them into some fonts. What is the advantage? Now I only have one file for each group of svg files, and it is a font file. I can access the images in the font just by selecting the font within Scal or MTC and typing in the letter corresponding to my image. That image can be welded to other images or words. I could even make a border out of my images by welding multiple ones.

To use the fonts, just open the font before you open your application program OR install the fonts on your computer. The fonts will show up as DANCE_SVG, SPORTS_SVG, CHILD_SVG.

Today I am premiering three fonts.

The CHILD_SVG font contains silhouette images of children and families.



Child character map
http://www.mediafire.com/?mz0ndmowynm

CHILD_SVG font

CHILD_SVG font:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mimizcuzzjm

The DANCE_SVG font contains dance, skater and gymnastic images for both males and females.




DANCE_SVG font character map:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uaom4zemkuq



DANCE_svg font:

http://www.mediafire.com/?tjymylytyaj


The SPORTS_SVG font contains sport images for soccer, basketball, lacrosse, baseball, softball, football,hockey and golf.



SPORTS_SVG character map
http://www.mediafire.com/?bjyd2ikycit

SPORTS_SVG font:


http://www.mediafire.com/?yenihdwzch5

It took me about 30 minutes to create each font AFTER I had copied all my images into the file. The gathering and resizing of the images took the most time.

Please try out my new fonts and see what you think. Even better, make YOUR OWN FONT!