(Clicking Save creates another project file, which is optional.) How to use your new font within Windows When you have everything the way you like, click the Create button to export your font. You’ll have a chance to tweak some things, such as spacing. Here’s a test page of sorts for how your final font will look.

Don’t worry too much about the size of the font, as you can always adjust it in an app like Word. If you see a letter that looks out of whack, you can retreat to the previous two screens via the tiny backspace or left-pointing arrow at the top-left corner of the screen, though you’ll probably want to re-ink those three test phrases again. This is the final opportunity to adjust the size of your font, the space between characters, and the space between words. (The phrases may vary from time to time.)įinally, Windows will present a page showing your font in action, with a page from Hamlet. Microsoft Font Maker will ask you to write a few phrases to fine-tune your spacing, and how you separate words. Note this is an English-language font guide I haven’t seen any options for umlauts or the French cedille, for example. Other lines will guide you in how large to make each character, as well as how to align each whorl and loop.

For each character, there’s a “guide” that quickly disappears when you begin inking within the box. Otherwise, you’ll be faced with a page of individual character templates, which may hearken back to your kindergarten days. Whether you choose to do so is up to you it won’t affect your ability to use Font Maker. Create your first Font Maker font in minutesĪfter first launching Font Maker, you may see a permissions screen asking you to allow Microsoft to anonymously collect your inkstrokes to improve Windows. Download the Microsoft Font Maker app from the Windows Store, which weighs in at a bit more than 50MB. Mark Hachman / IDGĬheck those pen settings within Windows before you begin.

Windows didn’t do a great job of ignoring my palm while creating my font, causing me to bounce out of the app on a few occasions. Here, I’d recommend telling Windows which hand you write with and ignoring touch input while using your pen. You can either click the pen icon on the taskbar or manually enter the Settings > Devices > Pen & Windows Ink menu to tweak your pen’s settings further.

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