Gregory's ServerWhen I draw comics I tend to write text by hand, but my hand letter work is a bit inconsistent, so I decided to make a font out of my handwriting!
First time making a font. Was inspired by Lizbeth(who's also working on a lovely font rn).
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I'm still going to write effects and people yelling real loud by hand though, cause no font can do this: Made a few tiny fixes to the font :>. Some letters were too uneven, did a bit of kerning(i literally learned what that meant yesterday haha~) too! It is strange to have a font of my own handwriting. OK, so when I rly get into something, I get into it and I can't stop. So I re-drew the font entirely from a hand-drawn scanned image (first font iteration was drawn by hand, but with a pen tablet digitally). Result is a bit more natural, just cause my writing varies a tiny bit on paper than with the pen tablet. Also means I need to make a bit of letter clean up, but wasn't that bad. I could have been more careful with my lines. SO pleased with this new variation! Now I have two fonts :D haha~  @rek I want a font and engine that can lay out glyphs probabilistically from a variety of provided glyphs, spacings and kernings.  @la_ninpre yea variation would be neat! I'll look into it at some point (i kinda burned myself out doing this, so im just gonna use the thing for a while instead of trying to perfect it XD).  @ritualdust so far so good! Had a few weird things happen earlier, but was easy to find answers online ^^! Also, like, the tool itself is rly good? I'm super impressed with it. Element->Find Problems & Element>Autotrace commands are SO useful!   @thacuber2a03 Hmm, not sure. Missing lots of characters (just did minimum id need for the comic), but also its kind of a wonky, very imperfect font. There's probably WAY better ones out there that are similar to this one. |
Also learned how to add fonts to Linux:
https://kokorobot.ca/site/spellbook.html#fonts