#Fonts & Monkeys
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Howdy all, I'm new here… I'm a cartoonist, looking for info on turning my
cartoon lettering into a font. (basically for my own use, but I'm open to
suggestion). In the meantime, has anyone else seen the wickedly funny Sony
Walkman commercial withe the Japanese Macaque (sort of a gibbon) standing
by the lake? It's too much! Best wishes, Chris Browne.
Assuming that you want to create high-quality PostScript fonts, the only
reasonable way (presently available to those outside Adobe) is to use
Fontographer from Altsys. It is a good product, designed expressly to help
you build a consistent look for your entire character set. The folks at
Altsys are supposed to be releasing a program that will allow Adobe
Illustrator88 images to be built into fonts, so if you prefer to work with
Illustrator88 this may provide a good alternative.
Many artists and calligraphers understandably prefer to work on paper first
and transfer their images to the computer. Illustrator88 (and I believe
Fontographer as well) allows you to use a scanned image as a template. The
"auto-trace" facility of Illustrator88 sounds better than it is in real
life, at least for this type of work. But the use of a template will be
very useful to you.
By the way, are you the Chris Browne that does "Cruiser" in Playboy? If so,
I've enjoyed your work and your humor for some time.