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Create your own MicrosoftWord fonts for free

If you’ve been looking  in vain for the perfect font, why not create your own? Metaflop Modulator is a new website that lets you do just that. Simply by moving a few sliders, you can customise your font while constantly previewing any changes you make. Once you’re happy with the font you’ve created, you can download it to your PC and use it within any Office program, including Word and PowerPoint.

Go to www.metaflop.com/modulator. Here, you’ll see a list of ‘modulator’ options l and ‘parameters’ sliders . There are also three preview sections containing individual letters (Glyph), numbers and upper- and lower-case letters (Chart), and sample text (Typewriter). The ‘parameters’ section contains customisation sliders for ‘unit width’, ‘pen width’, ‘cap height’ and so on. Click ‘on’ next to
‘anatomy’ to see an illustration of what each of these options refer to.

Keep clicking the ‘flop it!’ setting to browse the various font types. For more font-type options, click the ‘bespoke’ arrow at the top left and choose ‘adjuster’ or ‘fetamont’. Once you’ve settled on a font type, start customising it by moving the sliders in the ‘parameters’ section. To preview another letter, click that letter at the bottom of the Glyph section. Click the left and right arrows to see options for numbers and lower-case letters. You can change the Typewriter sample text and its font size using the arrows . To undo your changes, click the ‘reset’ setting (beside ‘flop it!

To download and use your font with your Office programs, click ‘open type font’ beside ‘download’
in the ‘modulator’ section (top left). A file containing the font will download to your PC. Click the file to open it, then click Install Once it’s installed, open any Word document, click the Font dropdown menu and choose your new font (it will be named Fetamont, Bespoke or Adjuster, depending on the font type you chose). If this method doesn’t work, copy (Ctrl+C) the downloaded font file. Now click the Start button on your PC, type fonts, open the Fonts folder and paste (Ctrl+V) the file there. You should now be able to use it within Word.