Fontforge
Back in College I started the design of a font for a small project, and it was only ever created in photoshop, with many layers to create a word.
It has always been there and I knew when I got chance to do so I would attempt to create a proper font file to use. The professional program Fontlab costs around $700 so that was out of the question for something that I only wanted to have a play with. I turned to Fontforge which is an open source app, so here I began.
I’m not going to run through how to use this program as if you are interested in using it, they have adequate tutorials and hints (plus I’m a rubbish teacher) but I will try explain some of my experience’s.