First thing you'll need is the hardware:

• A pen or some other device that makes a mark on paper.
• A piece of paper. A napkin will do if you can't find any paper.
• A Macintosh with a scanner. Are you stuck on a PC? Geez, that's too bad. I can't help you. Go away.
  
  [No, don't go away. PC users: Most of the software is also available for you. Scan in the drawing, just as you would for a Mac, then use Adobe Streamline or Corel OCR-TRACE. Next, use use CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, or any other advanced vector drawing program to draw the "box" and to do the final selecting and formatting. Then export the "A-J" sections to EPS (or AI) files and import them into Fontographer. This should all make sense with Chank's instructions.]

Here are two pieces of specialty software you will need for making fonts:

• Adobe Streamline: Converts your grayscale scan into an EPS (Encapsulated Post Script) file which you can open and edit in Illustrator.
• Macromedia Fontographer: This is the program that makes fonts.

Also, you should be somewhat familiar with the following software:

• Adobe Photoshop: Use this to scan your artwork in and clean it up if you want.
• Adobe Illustrator: Use as a clipboard for importing your outlines into Fontographer.

Got all that? Great! Let's draw the alphabet...

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