alternatively, how does one create custom fonts?

Let me get a local calligraphy expert on the scene for this one. @pussy_bacon

Search on adobe fonts 'cursive'

Custom fonts are time consuming because it implies everything is uniformly fitting together

Usually cursive script is handwritten and custom so youd want a calligrapher to consider the actual words used and 'flow'

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The cursive script for those tattoos definitely look custom made

Some typefaces that look similar:

Blosta Script Regular
Nightingale Regular
Bellisa Script Regular

Digital typeface designers tend to use dedicated font creation software like Glyphs and RoboFont

looks like wingdings

You getting yatted?

that's helvetica

hopefully

You can probably pay a lettering artist on instagram to draw one for you

OP getting a mid-2000s cholo tattoo

goes hard af