A New Font for a New Year...
After a highly entertaining half an hour with my work colleagues and fontifier, I now have a full operational font of my handwriting. It looks a little childish and insane, like the kind of thing you'd write threatening letters with, but it looks great as the default font on OSX's Post-It equivalents. Should you be foolish enough to want my scribblings on your computer, feel free to download it from here: Coates.ttf.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I suggest that your next project should be a 'Coates Signature Font', an exact likeness of your signature as used on, say, cheques and important documents.
I also think that using a handwriting font on computer 'stickies' is going one step too far...
→ Posted by: Dave at January 13, 2004 4:53 PM
You should try to get hold of an architect to do this with. They train them to annotate sketches in this architect-specific "angular" style of writing. The moment you've seen it, you know a trained architect scribbled it -- it's really quite nice...
→ Posted by: Deek at January 13, 2004 6:50 PM
Weird - I was just dling free handwriting fonts like mad two nights ago. And here is a fine one.
Question, though -- you include any punctuation with it? Quote marks and dashes and such are so important when I use these things.
I really need to get a font-making program for myself....
→ Posted by: grant at January 13, 2004 8:43 PM
It would be nice if you could get a handwriting font that could do cursive (you know, all the letters joined together). That would be excellent.
→ Posted by: Barfle at January 14, 2004 12:13 AM
"Flygande bckasiner ska hwila p mjuka tuvor" is sort of Swedish. Flying (strange word) will rest upon soft tussocks (almost). why the (quasi-) Swedish, Tom?!
/a swede
→ Posted by: Harry at January 14, 2004 2:49 AM
See, that wouldn't work with my handwriting, it's too varied, and joined up.
→ Posted by: dvboy at January 14, 2004 2:26 PM
I used fontifier myself to create a font, only it didn't turn out as well as I wanted to. Still, it's a cool idea, and I like it.
→ Posted by: Daniel at January 15, 2004 9:36 PM
ha! I did that handwriting thingy over a year ago! and implemented it into my web site! but it looked crap, so took it off... best of luck in the bloggies, fellow nominee
→ Posted by: Max at January 19, 2004 4:20 PM
"See, that wouldn't work with my handwriting, it's too varied, and joined up." - Hmm. I'm pretty sure Tom can write joined up, just that for the purposes of this font he didn't. He's, like, a fully-grown adult and everything :-)
→ Posted by: Paul Farnell at February 15, 2006 5:23 PM
I cannot open Fontifier.com on a computer in Canada. Why is that??
→ Posted by: Daryl at September 23, 2006 6:04 PM