It's hard to believe, but it's amazingly easy to create your very own and great looking computer fonts!
The easiest way is to use a template – for example from the Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek (German Digital Library) or from the Deutsches Zeitungsportal (German Newspaper Portal). Anyone can do it!
I also managed to do this, for example:
It's surprisingly simple to create your own fonts - with the ddb-werkbank and the software birdfont
Convinced yet? Go ahead: We've created a couple of short tutorials, below, to help you learn how to typeset such fonts using the free software Birdfont (thanks to its author, Johan Mattson!).
By the way: You are welcome to download my font, and install it on your own word processing program: Download font "sachsenspiegel";[1]
(I used the Heidelberger Exemplar of the "Sachsenspiegel" as a template.)