It’s hard to believe — unless you’ve spent hours and hours vainly trying to find the perfect font —  that the ideal font may not exist until you design it. Once the domain of 17th century men with long beards and funny hats, designing fonts is a difficult, but doable task, if you have a serious knowledge of typography and the time to design and create all the variations needed in a typeface. Yes, there are books on the subject, but the best way to get introduced to the process (in our highly biased opinion) is to take a class. SVC offers one from time to time, and you can admire some of the fruits of a recent class’s labor in this Flickr album.