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Making a Handwriting Font with Calligraphr and FontForge
25 August 2020Post 1 of 1 in Handwriting FontI have been reading about font design and evolving font technologies for a while, and I finally succumbed to the lure of making a font. I decided for this first foray to try to replicate my handwriting. This is the result!In this video I walk through the process, from using Calligraphr to capture the glyphs to using FontForge to fine-tune the spacing.
I took the time to write out the common characters multiple times, so there are plenty of variations of each one (called “contextual alternatives” in font lingo). I also added some extra punctuation, math symbols, and common European language characters.
Here are some fancy character examples:
“This is a quoted phrase.”
Here's some code:let x = 0; if (x < 10) { // do something }
And how about some nonsensical math:
δχ/δt = 10; ∀a∈A, ∃x s.t. …