I made a completely unnecessary font of my own handwriting.I’m not sure what came over me, but yesterday I decided that I needed to turn my handwriting into a font. I poked around the internet and landed on FontCrafter: one of seemingly endless fun projects from Chris Pirillo that lets you write out characters on a grid, upload the filled-out sheet, and wait a few moments for a font you can preview, fine-tune, and download. There’s support for ligatures, interpolated glpyhs, and more! I used an iPad and Apple Pencil to draw my characters in annotation mode: My filled-out PDF template after quite a few revisions. Each time I uploaded and waited a few seconds to see a preview, I’d go back to redraw characters that were too big or sitting weirdly. I really fell down a hole going through revisions. (Remember, I don’t even have a reason to need this!) I drew a typeface a long time ago that was frankly pretty bad, but I had fun making the many iterative adjustments that start to reveal a…
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