Making a custom font to use in Captivate.
In this post, I demonstrate a little bit about how I went about actually making the font.
This custom font is actually a set of images that are all imported to Captivate and used as states.
This will allow you to use the font in your own projects without the customer having to need the font installed on their computer in order to enjoy it.
All of the characters are sized the same way so that they can scale and still be aligned and spaced out easily.
Take a look at the video which is about 9 minutes and gives an overview of the creation process.
Feel free to ask any questions that you may have.
I suppose I could have made them within Captivate but that would have been 7 or 8 objects for each character which seemed like it might become problematic in the long run. I figured with single images for each character that it would be an easier burden for Captivate to bear.
I do not have InDesign or Illustrator or Photoshop to use – so PowerPoint has been forced to become a pretty decent graphic design tool for me.
Easier burden would certainly be to use SVGs. They have incredibly small file size especially for that type of shapes. Since you need the characters in states, it would be possible with a similar workflow as used in the PPT: create a first state with the number 8, duplicate that state as many times as needed and set alpha for the not needed shapes to 0.
I have been teaching PPT (never liked it), and know about its graphics functionality. Understand you use it for that goal.
Thanks for posting this series about a custom digital font.
Already figured out your workflow. Will probably try it out, not in PPT (of course) but in AI and create SVGs instead of GIFs. BTW it would have been possible right away in Captivate to create the fonts as well. For responsive or scalable projects SVGs qill always be crisp, and in 11.5 you can easily edit the color of the fills.
Will post back with feedback.
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