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After about 20 minutes of writing my font into the template they provided (which I did in Photoshop so it would look like I wrote it with a tablet) I was able to create a TrueType font of my handwriting!

Even though it takes some time to set up the gridlines and write my notes on screen using my tablet, I do it anyway because it just looks right as opposed to using a refined font.įor a while I've put off making that font because of how long it would take for me to make one, but now there's. But now that I'm doing more concept art I wanted my handwriting font because using a font like Myriad Pro for notes just doesn't fit well with the loose sketches and paintings. Originally my motivation for this was out of novelty because having your handwriting as a TrueType font is just plain cool. It now costs $12.50 + $6.00 if you upload both template pages.įor years I've wanted to create a font of my own handwriting. Here's a couple of font tools that I've used in the past: automatically creates a TrueType font from a scan of your handwriting, and FontForge allows you to create fonts from scratch and of course edit existing ones.

We live and breath type and will search for hours trying to find the right typeface, and when we are not doing that we'll spend weeks trying to create one. Many of the designers I know are typophiles.

Fontforge rotate selection how to#

Scruss provide some information on how to do this under Cygwin (and Linux I'm sure) at I haven't tried it out yet, (when I do I'll post it here) but this could very well come in handy.