u/RobotAlienWizard

Image 1 — I made my handwritting a font
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I made my handwritting a font

I scanned a page of my own handwriting and spent a while turning it into a proper typeface: Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic, with an extended Latin set (~330 glyphs) that covers most Western/Central/Northern European languages/accents, ¿¡, ß, æ/œ, ð/þ, the Romanian comma-below letters, smart quotes, €/£, etc. I added 3 alternates for each letter and number so it looks more natural.

The goal was to keep the natural irregularity of real handwriting while normalizing the baseline and spacing so it still sets cleanly as text. Specimen + a few language samples are on the page.

I'd appreciate all kind of feedback, and if you happen to like it enough to use it, it's up on my Gumroad (link in comments / below).

u/RobotAlienWizard — 5 days ago

I turned my own handwriting into a 4-style pan-European font — would love your eyes on it

I scanned a page of my own handwriting and spent a while turning it into a proper typeface: Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic, with an extended Latin set (~330 glyphs) that covers most Western/Central/Northern European languages/accents, ¿¡, ß, æ/œ, ð/þ, the Romanian comma-below letters, smart quotes, €/£, etc.

The goal was to keep the natural irregularity of real handwriting while normalizing the baseline and spacing so it still sets cleanly as text. Specimen + a few language samples are on the page.

Being upfront since this crowd will notice anyway: it ships without pair-kerning, and a handful of rarer glyphs (thorn, eth, some currency symbols) are constructed from existing letterforms rather than drawn from scratch. Those are my next polish steps.

Genuinely after feedback: spacing, the italic slant, anything that reads "off" to you. And if you happen to like it enough to use it, it's up on my Gumroad (link in comments / below).

u/RobotAlienWizard — 8 days ago