🎭 Likeface

Your typeface.
Not one that resembles it.

From a photo, a font file, one sentence, or your own handwriting, Likeface builds a complete, installable typeface — kerned, graded, delivered as an OTF in about a quarter of an hour. One coin.

Begin ↓ Finished fonts on Glyfs →
~200 characters kerned & graded OTF + specimen + character sheet see it before you pay
Four doors

Every typeface begins somewhere.

Each door is its own page, with its own steps. Behind all four: the same build, the same grade, the same one coin — reserved at the start, spent only when you approve.

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Photo

Saw it on a wall? Own it in fifteen minutes.

Five letters are enough. Photograph them cleanly and Likeface traces the shapes, reasons from those five to the whole alphabet, and hands you the family. The picture is inspected before a single coin moves; a brand's lettering is politely declined, and an original font inspired by it is offered instead. What is copied is never yours. What is made from it is.

  1. Upload a sharp photo or scan — plain background, five or more letters.
  2. We inspect, level, and trace, then grow the full character set in that hand.
  3. Approve the alphabet, spend the coin, download.
Open the Photo door 1 GET 1 →
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File

Fond of a font? Make one that belongs to you.

Upload a font you already own and we study it — weight, proportion, rhythm, character — without copying a single outline. What comes out is measurably different (we lay it over your reference to prove it) and rightfully yours. A footnote: upload a font you bought here and we expand it to 550+ characters instead.

  1. Upload your .otf or .ttf and say how far to depart.
  2. We measure it and draw three fresh directions. You choose one.
  3. Approve the alphabet, spend the coin, download.
Open the File door 1 GET 1 →
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Describe

Say it. See it. Carry it forward.

Write a sentence — "a warm, round bakery sans," "blackletter for a metal band" — and within minutes receive three drawn readings of it. Choose a direction; it steers the whole build. Give it a name; the name colours the design. The typeface speaks before it exists.

  1. Describe the font, and name it if you like.
  2. Choose one of three sketched directions — or let the art director choose after ninety seconds.
  3. Approve the alphabet, spend the coin, download.
Open the Describe door 1 GET 1 →
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Draw

Your handwriting, installable.

Print a sheet, write the alphabet in pen, photograph the page. Leave a box empty and we draw the stragglers in your hand. The extras sheet adds accents and symbols; the dingbats sheet turns doodles into a picture font laid on your keyboard. The hand does not lie — not even when it shakes.

  1. Print the sheet (Letter or A4) and ink it.
  2. Photograph it flat, straight from above — up to four pictures.
  3. Upload. We read the codes, trace every cell, fill the gaps, and deliver.
Open the Draw door 1 GET 1 →
What is in the package

Not a sample. Not a preview. The whole typeface.

One zip lands in your Inventory. Inside:

🔤An installable OTFAbout 200 characters: all of ASCII, accents, currencies, punctuation, kerned pairs.
🖼️A character sheetEvery glyph, laid out — the whole set at a glance.
📄A specimen PDFYour typeface set in words and sizes, ready to show someone.
🧐A gradeEvery font is inspected glyph by glyph before delivery. Nothing is delivered unread.
🔏A provenance sealInside the file itself: built here, for you.
The honest trade

See it before you pay.

GETOne coin per font. Your GET is set aside when the build starts and spent only when you approve the alphabet.
GETDon't like it? Walk away. The coin falls back into your purse; the build is discarded.
GETWe grade every font. If a build misses our bar we do not deliver it; you run it again for nothing.
GETIf something breaks on our side, you run it again for nothing.
GETCoins begin around $6 and get cheaper by the bundle. Each week has one lucky day with a free coin. Coins never expire. Open the purse →
There is no yes that could not have been a no.
And then, onward

One typeface is a beginning, not an end.

🔧RefineName up to twelve characters you want redrawn and we redraw them — one round free.
⬆Expand (+1 coin)Grow to 550+ characters — Latin Extended, all of Vietnamese, ligatures, small caps, fractions — with Bold, Italic and Bold Italic as companions, each kept only if it passes its test. Every new glyph is built from the letterforms you approved. Nothing is added that did not come from you.
🏪SellPut your font on Glyfs, set the price, be paid in coins.
Proof

Built here. Sold on Glyfs.

Every one of these began as a photo, a file, a sentence, or a sheet of paper. Click any to see all of it.

Plain words

Questions people ask before the first coin.

How long?About ten to fifteen minutes. You can leave; the build waits in your Queue and the font in your Inventory.
Is it really mine?Yes — install it, use it, sell it on Glyfs. Photo and File ask you to confirm you hold the rights to what you upload; that responsibility is yours, and you take it on once.
And if my photo is bad?We tell you before a coin moves — and how to do better.
Will the File font resemble my reference?Related, not identical — that is the point, and that is the law. We lay the two over each other to check.
Do I need to understand type design?No.
What does a coin cost?Around $6 for one, less each by the bundle; and one lucky day a week hands you a coin for nothing.

Choose a door.

📷 Photo 🔤 File ✍️ Describe 🖨️ Draw