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Making a font of my handwriting

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Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by kragen »

I did this in a much more manual way in 02006: http://canonical.org/~kragen/oilpencil/

All the steps I did at the time should still work today, and they may be of some interest if you're trying to do the thing Chris gave up on in "Failing to do it myself", perhaps because you're dissatisfied with the results of the alternative approaches.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by pessimizer »

spcebar wrote: post #11
nartho wrote: post #4

>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive The font created is print, not cursive.

At least in the world of web, cursive is a typographic term referring to fonts that aren't sans or sans serif and are typically used for decorative purposes.

I'm pretty sure that's not true in the world of typography. Cursive there afaik mostly means that it has a ton of ligatures (i.e. a ton of "sorts.")

Fonts that are decorative, when I worked in prepress, were simply called "decorative." It just meant "not for body text" i.e. hard or annoying to read. I assume in the past it meant "don't buy a ton of these, and none in small sizes" because you weren't ever going to be putting a bunch on a page.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by Weetile »

jlev wrote: post #5

I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial cringe ahead)

So is it true that Ruth had champagne on the flight without you?

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jlev wrote: post #5

I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial cringe ahead)

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Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by OJFord »

spcebar wrote: post #11
nartho wrote: post #4

>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive The font created is print, not cursive.

At least in the world of web, cursive is a typographic term referring to fonts that aren't sans or sans serif and are typically used for decorative purposes.

Even like this where it's not just not 'joined-up', but not even independent cursive characters? This is just printed characters, as GP says, this seems particularly relevant because I'd think the hardest part of doing this with cursive handwriting would be all the combinations of the ways different letters flow together - if you restrict yourself to independent characters then you remove that problem.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by caminanteblanco »

jlev wrote: post #5

I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial cringe ahead)

So wholesome, and here's a belated congratulations!
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