I just had to share this nifty website that I found via Lifehacker.com. Ever wanted to make a font with your own handwriting? Now you can, with FontCapture. I’ve always wanted to do this, but it was usually expensive and/or complicated. FontCapture just needs a printer (to print out a single page PDF form), a scanner (to scan in the completed form), and a pen… and it’s free! I tried two different versions.. one with a medium point Sharpie marker, and one with a gel pen. Both of them came out great.
This is the Sharpie marker version of my handwriting.
This is the gel pen version.
This took me, from start to finish, about 15 minutes (if you don’t count the time I spent trying to make my scanner work with Windows 7). Aren’t they pretty? I think I’m going to experiment with different pen sizes to see if I can get the perfect one. I read that an ultra fine point Sharpie works best, but I can’t find mine at the moment. I’ll have to look for it.
Go try it out!
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Suddenly, I really want a scanner
I have a cheap HP scanner/printer/copier/fax that has completely paid for itself in faxes. Faxing 50 page documents can get hugely expensive if you have to pay at a copy shop.