size 12 is unreadable), you can change the 'EM Unit Size' to be smaller.

You can fix this in Type light by going to Font > Metrics (in Type light).

I have found that MyScriptFont sets the x-height too large, and the descender depth too small.

Two free font editing programs are: Type light and Fontforge, although Type light has a much simpler interface for basic editing, and runs natively on windows.

To make it perfect, you will have to edit it.

Upload the template and save the font file MyScriptFont gives you.

JPG compresses images by default, which is bad for image quality. The template should be in TIFF or PNG and be at least 300dpi.

Print off a template from MyScriptFont (or just save and import the pdf into Gimp or Photoshop, and write/paste your glyphs into their respective boxes).

Although, if you have the glyphs already created, Fontforge can import svg files. This is the fastest, simplest, FREE method I've found so far to create a font from scratch. You still need to decide what your x-height should be but you might save a few seconds if you skip the step where you save the glyph as a separate SVG file.

You can also copy and paste glyphs between the two programs with newer versions of BirdFont and Illustrator.

Insert your glyphs in to the template file. Drag down new lines from the ruler to the bottom line, baseline, x-height and top positions. Open your glyph template in Illustrator and turn on rulers (Ctrl+r). (Import an Export -> Export glyphs as SVG) Create four rectangular markers at the bottom line, baseline, x-height and top.

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