I checked a while back PS 5 LE is too old now - I'd have to buy new rather than upgrade - so for right now I'm just going to have to keep learning PS 5 (I still have a ways to go anyway). I had assumed Illustrator would make fonts - sorry about that, but in any case you need to be able to make closed loop vectors out of your characters and it should do that much at least. When I decided I was going to try to learn how to do fonts and before I realized that Corel Draw would do them, I looked for free fonting software but I didn't find much; the very cheapest was 30 bucks very old and I'm not sure how well it worked. It was a hard subject for me to google but perhaps someone else had better luck with it; I did find out in that nightmare of a google however that there is a part of TTF that is patented and not at all royalty free regarding smoothing curves in smaller typefaces (forget what they call it), so before putting fonts on the web it would pay to look at that to make sure you're not violating patent law. If anyone has Corel Draw 7 or better and wants to try making fonts, let me know here and I'll try to dig up and post here to the urls to 2 tuts I found which give you a good idea of how to do them in Corel. (I don't think Corel uses the patent infringing part of TTF so one should be safe on that front anyway.)