Since I’m running on about four hours of sleep, two nights in a row, I found it incredibly difficult to remain focused in class this morning. So, instead of listening attentively to presentations about conceptions of race in the eighteenth century, I resorted to writing the alphabet in my notebook in both print and cursive forms.
I think my grade school teachers would be proud of my printed hand, and I think my mom would be proud of my cursive hand. I remember, one morning when I was little, sitting at the kitchen counter and asking her to write out the alphabet for me, so I could learn to write it, too. I think her sample, along with a few of mine, is still neatly folded, crammed inside the pocket of an old blue pencil case that I had. I should work on finding that.
I wrote out the alphabet in uppercase cursive letters, too, but it didn’t come out perfectly. And while the following are not as perfect as I’d like them to be in this representation of my penmanship, I think they’re good enough to post here.
One day, I hope to turn my handwriting into a font that I can use on the computer. How awesome would that be?
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You can turn your handwriting into a font. For free.
I know you love procrastinating, and it’s only fitting that I stumbled upon this while procrastinating myself. Check out the lifehacker post with details on the making your handwriting into a font: http://lifehacker.com/5144665/yourfonts-turns-your-handwriting-into-a-personlized-font
Wow, that’s gotten so much easier than it used to be! Back in the ’90s I subscribed to this magazine called MacAddict and one of their earliest issues had a how-to on turning handwriting into fonts, and it involved the use of expensive scanners, expensive image editing software, and expensive proprietary font creation software. The fact that it can all be done for free through a single website with no outside apps is phenomenal.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll let you know when I procrastinate enough to get it made!