Strangetimez

Okay, something I should explain to anyone who may stumble upon this blog… I mostly use it to vent my frustrations at the world.  If you judge me as a person from this then that’s your problem, not mine

Have you ever wanted to put your own handwriting into a font?  Well, I hadn’t really thought about it myself, but I saw this site and had to give it a try:  http://www.yourfonts.com/

The kind people at yourfonts.com have a FREE process to convert your handwriting to a typeable font.

I did some exeprimentation and I learned a few things, including just how messy and bad my handwriting is!  We are in the age of the computer I suppose…

When you create your font, you need to print out their provided sheet, and fill it in.   If you look closely there are markers on them:

 The 4 markers are in each section.  Think about characters like a Y as opposed to y.  The capitals should fit from the top markers to the third marker down.  The lower case letters like a, e, c, s etc should fit from the second to the third marker.  Letters like y will fit from the second to the 4th marker.  Im sure you get the idea! 

Well, I didnt get the idea initially when I generated the font, as I am sure you will see:

 So, I went back to the worksheets and started a fresh one.  This time I used a sheet of paper to act as a ruler to make sure I didnt go outside the markers (too much).  Version 2 was a little better:

The difference isnt major, but it does make a difference.  You will notice the sample text “This is my own handwriting!” sits neater on the line.

So, then I decided to have some fun with the font and just do one more messy / child like font with a texta:

The great thing is that I can now personalise cards etc when I want to give them to people.  If they dont look too closely they may even think I actually wrote it.  Also, if you are after a handwriting style of font, then you can have some fun and create your own!

I was surprised to find someone had joined the site… so I checked on them. Turns out “alina77vere@gmail.com” is a spammer and Im not the only one. After googling, I found this blog, and this one, both have mentioned this account.  So – its deleted and hopefully the world is now spinning correctly on its axis again

Well, I dont know if this blog will survive like my other iterations didn’t.   But here goes anyway.  Ill try and keep this up to date with info about what Im up to, photos, and any random rantings that I feel I need to get out.

 :)