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MAKEY OUR OWN HANDWRITTEN TYPEFACE LICENSE
MAKEY OUR OWN HANDWRITTEN TYPEFACE PLUS

It should fit perfectly within the window.Ĥ.

Paste the “A” you copied from Illustrator (command-V).

Double-click the A character box to open it.

Choose File > Font Info (command-I) and choose a name for your font.

Open Glyphs Mini and create a new font (command-N).

Then click up and to the right of the “A” and drag up and to the right until the “A” roughly fills the document bounds.Ĩ. Select the scale tool and click on the bottom left corner of the document bounds. Select all (command-A) and move the block of characters so that the bottom corner of the uppercase “A” is near the bottom left corner of the document bounds.ħ.

Click the “Expand” button at the top, then Object > Ungroup. It will take a few seconds to re-process each time you move the slider, so be patient. Check the Ignore White box, the Preview box, and if necessary, slide the Threshold slider to the left or right until the letter strokes look solid but the holes in the letters are still wide open. With the image still selected, choose the dropdown arrow to the right of the Live trace button, and select Tracing options.Ĥ. Choose File > Place and select the photo.ģ.Open Illustrator and create a new file (command-N) with dimensions of 700px x 700x (9.72″ x 9.72″).Transfer the photo to your desktop computer.Take a picture of the sample in bright but indirect light, making sure the phone is level, and the bottoms of the letters are as horizontal as possible (not rotated in the photo frame).(Use the computer keyboard as a guide.) Group the letters in a shape roughly the same proportions as your cell phone camera.

MAKEY OUR OWN HANDWRITTEN TYPEFACE PLUS

Write out the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case, plus numbers and punctuation.Ready to create your own? Follow these steps: Writing sample Here are a couple of fonts I created out of other people’s handwriting: So let me show you how to make a handwriting font. Trust me: Typing out words in a font you’ve created is a thrill.

MAKEY OUR OWN HANDWRITTEN TYPEFACE LICENSE

You can buy a license for Glyphs mini from the Apple App Store or the Glyphs site for $49, or try it free for 30 days. It’s actually not too hard to get a basic font up and running using your smartphone camera, Adobe Illustrator, and Glyphs Mini, a low-cost but remarkably powerful little font editing app. The answer is “of course!” But even better, you can create a font out of your handwriting! When people find out I’ve created hundreds of fonts for the comic book and video game industries over the last 20 years, one of the first things they ask is, “Can you make a font of my handwriting?”