27/02/2008

Type, handwriting, and lettering

Notes on type design

Would you like to make your own?
Take your characters and turn them into fonts. Create lettershapes that work together, and print them. Sounds like fun? It can be.The skills of designing letters can be learned, just like other skills. The techniques of fitting them together are no secret. The tools are better than they used to be. Alchemy probably helps, but managing without that is the purpose of orderly work. You can digitize almost any shape you imagine. The big question is this. What do you want?

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