HOW ARE FONTS DESIGNED? Typeface designers regularly face questions about how fonts are created, and rightly so I would think. It is fairly understandable for this obscure profession to appear somewhat mystifying to the vast majority of peopleβ. And truth be told, even for many professionals in the fields of design or publishing the process of drawing and producing a novel font is a small enigma.
Whatβs this process like?
Fonts are created on the computer, right?
How does one come up with ideas for a new font?
Johannes Neumeier of Underscore Type elucidates the process of type design
here.