ooh, that second one is going to be tricky. I know ITG/ITG2 did it; if you have the theme for one of those there should be some insight in the [TextBanner] section of the metrics.
As for making fonts, your choices are pretty much all Windows-only,
Bitmap Font Builder and Texture Font Generator, which I don't seem to have uploaded.
(the wiki is back up btw, it just doesn't have all the information it used to.)