If Swash is grayed out, then you don’t have any Open Type fonts installed that include swashes such as Lovely Melissa, which comes with 1,372 glyphs and swashes for the reasonable price of $25 ...

Some fonts also include more typographic substitutions in the form of additional alternate glyph sets named contextual alternates, swash alternates, and titling alternates.

Even with these tools to help you, don’t expect Type Light to create your font glyph for you.There are few shortcuts and no fancy tricks to help out. Type Light omits some of the most useful ...

If you want more control, and are willing to spend $30, have a look at FontLab’s SigMaker, which lets you convert your handwritten letters or any other line art into a font, or add new glyphs to ...