That font doesn’t suck.
However, I can tell that you’re introvertive (retalics), a little ADHD (open/unconnected O character), have OCD tendencies (highly legible script), and borderline type A (lines in top of x close together and Fs)
Making a font of my handwriting
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Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#42I 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)
Nice story. Most people dont meet in a "fate" kind of way but you did.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#43They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it? I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like th…
This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get super fidgety Not to mention my handwriting stinks For me it’s a lot easier to remember when I’m fully immersed and processing ideas vs tediously writing I do think this is probably ju…
> It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said
AFAIU, if you're trying to take notes capturing what was said in a conversation between people.. to some extent you're going to need to focus and summarize anyway.
For handwriting notes for your own work.. I think writing stimulates & catalyses thought.
If you're in the flow, it doesn't make sense to stop and write notes. (Other than maybe so as to dispatch distracting thoughts, to preserve flow, or to enable flow for later).
If you're not flowing.. IME writing notes can help draw out thoughts: identify what it is you're confused or unclear about, what doesn't make sense, or what needs to be prioritised. -- For some reason, I've found pen & paper (especially 4-5 colours) to be more effective than just using a keyboard.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#44I 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)
Hell yeah, keep that site up. What a marvel in this age of link rot.
Thank you, I’m never letting the domain go.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#45They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it? I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like th…
> They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing
I believe that too.
Writing is one of my tools for taming my ADHD tendencies. I have journals of different sizes and when I am in the zone, I capture the moment in my own words and in my own way. I draw lines and art on my notes and just scanning a few lines on another day instantly immerses me back in the moment when the ideas/words/thought hit me.
For those who type better than they write, I don't see any reason to not do that, even though for me, it's pen on paper.
We're all different and I am a strong believer of the idiom that goes "One man's food..."
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#46Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#47When I was a teenager I made a ttf-font from the handwriting of a girl I was in love with as a gift for her. Man I underestimated that task seriously. I used some tool that was included in the Corel Draw Suite, scanned a sheet of paper on which she had written me the alphabet (in upper and in lower case) and vectorized everything by hand. It was so. Much. Work. Since then a quarter of a century has passed and it is o…
Sure beats a mix tape.
Writing my handwriting would be a punishment.
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#48Kudos to you and the journey. I appreciate your honesty honestly about giving up on open source alternative for a quite cheap alternative for something you get to keep as your own is not a bad tradeoff.
Your story resonates. I am a self-taught creative and I get stubborn at times about wanting to use/bend a specific technology/tool to achieve a task; maybe it's a sunk cost fallacy OCD thing.
Your site design has character.
PS: Bookmarked your site with the tags - fonts, developer-blog, creative-sites, boutique-designs... on my firefox browser.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#49They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it? I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like th…
This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get super fidgety Not to mention my handwriting stinks For me it’s a lot easier to remember when I’m fully immersed and processing ideas vs tediously writing I do think this is probably ju…
> I type 121 wpm
Your comment had me wondering how quick various systems are for writing. Shorthand can apparently get comfortably over 200wpm, but the bit that is I found wild is is how it looks.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#50Hmm. A font of my own handwriting sounds like unbreakable encryption!