How can I create my own font?

On Dec 24, 12:17 am, "ITNews" <ITN... RemoveThis @net.it> wrote:
> "tom" <t... RemoveThis @tom.tom> wrote in message
>
> news:490a2707$0$31221$e4fe514c@dreader17.news.xs4all.nl...
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> > Character wrote:
> > > If all you want to do is create that one font, you'd be better off using
> > > one of the 'handwriting to font' services such as
> > >http://www.fontifier.com/
> > > For only $9 and a little preparation effort, you could have your font!
>
> > Or generate your font for free at
> >http://www.yourfonts.com/
>
> > tom
>
> YourFonts.com is a FREE online font generation service that allows you to
> create your own fonts within a couple of minutes.
> Make fonts that cover one or more of the following languages:
> English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish,
> Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Estonian, Faeroese, Frisian, Irish, Galician,
> Hungarian, Icelandic, Albanian and Esperanto.
>
> What about Arabic fonts, please?
>
> Thanks in advance!

A _lot_ trickier. You'd have to master OpenType in order to get the
contextual forms, not to mention the semi-optional ligatures, and the
positioning of the vowels etc.