Want to make a font of your own? Don't want to spent hundreds of dollars for a professional tool like fontographer? Well, try COREL DRAW! Even older versions, mostly legally available for very few bucks support TRUE TYPE FONT export! Here's the basics:

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Create a new document (duh), design a letter with the average tools like box, circle etc. (very useful: weld an cut operations!) and make it rather big. Make sure it's combined (for example "i" with it's dot) and position it on the zerocrossing or drag the zerocrossing to the lower left corner of your shape to determine it's baseline and starting point (use a vertical and a horizontal ruler and "snap to rulers" option to position zerocrossing and shape).

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If you haven't done it yet, save your document. Use the same name as the font you're making will be called because CorelDraw will suggest the documents' name in the export dialog. If it's not the name you want, it might drive you nuts as you have to export each type separately! Highlight your shape and choose file\export. Activate "export highlighted only" checkbox and choose .ttf as file type.
   A dialog window will appear, asking you for the font family's name. Choose one and click OK. Then the final export window will appear. If you haven't made any mistakes, you should see your letter in a preview window to the left , with a list besides it where you can choose to which key it will be assigned. Of course there's lots of options. Find out for yourselves what they're good for :)

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Make it so with each letter of your font (don't forget to reposition the zeropoint or the shapes!). Check your result on time, for example after exporting the first three types by copying your .ttf-file to to the windows\fonts directory, choosing your font from the text tools options list in CorelDraw then and typing the exported letters. Compare the fonts' size to a different font size at the same pt amount (that's the number in the "font size" field...duh).

TIP: As the export dialog jumps automatically to the following key in the list when you export the next shape, it might save you lots of time to write that list's order down. Design all of your types and export them afterwards in that order. It saves one click each time and reduces the job to a hacking routine ;)

That's it basically. Have fun and let me see your results :)