Apr 28, 2016
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Actually hating the way this turned out (except for the numbers and symbols), and I just noticed a typo 😒
myscriptfont.com
A few years ago, my brother sent me a link to this site – myscriptfont.com – He was encouraging my creative tendencies and had come across this page where you can design your own font. It is amazingly simple. All you need to do is download this form
Use this template to design your own fonts via myscriptfont.com
and draw your own letters on it in black ink, scan and upload and you get your own…
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What the Font?
I turned my handwriting into a font! My friend and fellow cartoonist Simon Fraser recommended this last year, and I finally got around to doing it! I've been told that the computer fonts I use as a short-cut on my mini comics don't fit with the hand drawn comic. The current comic I'm drawing ("Apartment Hunt") has LOTS of text, so this is a good time to test it out.
There are free sites that turn your handwriting into a font like http://www.myscriptfont.com/ Print out the sheet, write in the boxes, scan, upload, and voila! It did take 2 tries to tweak some weird letters, but the final result is awesome! I'll save tons of time but it'll have the warmer look of writing by hand! Also thinking about making an Aer Head font. I do pride myself on the fact that that comic is all done by hand, but as I get busier and time slips away, it's best to utilize tools like this!
If you're in Jersey tomorrow, check out the Super Heroes for Hospice show in West Orange! If you're in Philly on Sunday, check out the Philly Zine Fest at the Rotunda!
My free font creator update
You guys I made a font with myscriptfont.com! It was easy! Let’s do this!
FONT UPDATE: I used my handmade font extensively on my zine mailing this month, and it worked well. As freeware, I give it a B- -- a few special characters wouldn't load, but nothing important so NBD. I would like to continue tweaking it for style -- and it's really stupidly easy to make a new font, so why not keep writing out the alphabet until I can do lettering that I really like the look of?
Documenting my quest to find a good handwritten font. The top one cost me $15 at YourFonts (only $10 if you don't want special characters)
Bottom one was free at MyScriptFont.
(I've been told I write in perfect ComicSans, it's my secret shame)
I did that Handwriting Font thing.