A great place to start (and it's free) is http://fontstruct.com/ http://fontstruct.com/. It's a grid-based system that gives you predefined shapes to build wit

A great place to start (and it's free) is http://fontstruct.com/ http://fontstruct.com/. It's a grid-based system that gives you predefined shapes to build with. It's very easy to get started and you can create some really amazing fonts with it.