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R E K

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~

a scanned sketchbook page with tests for a handwritten font, above is the final processed letters that were put into a font.
the font used in the comic.
10 comments
Paul Lalonde

@rek I want a font and engine that can lay out glyphs probabilistically from a variety of provided glyphs, spacings and kernings.

la ninpre

@rek i've seen one font that did some opentype features magick that made repeated glyphs vary in a word, so it looks very very real. i don't know how it works, but i once wanted to do something similar for my handwriting font.

R E K

@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).

Lizbeth

@rek oh yes love it, it really does have something to start on paper I find for that kind of handwriting font, love to see your process and iterations :D

7047741

@rek You and Devine have this in common hahaha love it

R E K

A short write-up on making a handwritten font with FontForge.

kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_fon

screenshot of the fontforge character view with the word Platypus in big letters on the canvas.
lhp

@rek Thank you! I was looking for a similar article after seeing your earlier posts but couldn't find it.

Now let's see whether I can get my scanner working again...

Corentin

@rek hey I did that a few months ago, and now I use this font on a few places (like on projects logo) :D

Share Links logo, written using my custom font.
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