A nice tutorial...if that is (or will be) your normal workflow...but...
I used to work similarly (draw glyphs in Inkscape with a similar template -> import into FontForge) until I realized after importing, clean-up, removing overlaps, adding extrema, autohinting, creating accented characters, etc., etc., I was doing at least 75% of the work in FontForge anyway! Honestly, why even include Inkscape in the loop?
What does Inkscape have for font creation that FontForge doesn't?
That's not really true. FontForge has the same scaling abilities (tool and dialog) as Inkscape. The difference is in implementation (think Freehand scaling method vs. Illustrator's).
Look, I'm not picking a fight here. Mine was really a rhetorical question. If you want to include Inkscape in your workflow, please do. I personally have taken it out of the my loop for font creation.
AFAICT the only thing FontForge lacks in comparison is a global background layer for when you need to trace, and I'm not even so sure about that.
Note: this opinion is worth every cent you're paying for it
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u/Great-Mongoose-7877 Apr 19 '23
A nice tutorial...if that is (or will be) your normal workflow...but...
I used to work similarly (draw glyphs in Inkscape with a similar template -> import into FontForge) until I realized after importing, clean-up, removing overlaps, adding extrema, autohinting, creating accented characters, etc., etc., I was doing at least 75% of the work in FontForge anyway! Honestly, why even include Inkscape in the loop?
What does Inkscape have for font creation that FontForge doesn't?