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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Make: your own font

This was posted here on Designing Moms today, but I thought I'd post it on Libby Dibby too. since I am so excited about it...
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I just learned from this great blog about fontcapture. I learned about it late at night and ended up making two fonts of my own handwriting in the middle of the night... (when else would I do it?) and when the kids woke up in the morning, I had them fill out the cool templates (it was very similar to what they call "homework" - which is anything that has a task to be done on paper) to make their own handwritten fonts. My kids are 3 1/2 and 5, and the 5 year old found it easier than the 3 year old, but after some cutting and pasting, I was able to assemble for my 3 year old son a font of his own with his own letters (it just took a few tries).


I'm just bubbling over with ideas now for how to use our new fonts... thank you cards, iron on transfers, scrapbooking, card making, printing big signs, labeling... the possibilities are just endless and I am really loving having their little handwriting samples preserved and USABLE! After I got the fonts loaded (did I forget to mention this is all free?), my kids fought over who could sit down at the computer and type in their own handwriting. There is something so magic for them to see their handwriting showing up on the screen in front of them. I foresee hours of fun with this.

2 comments:

Anamaria said...

I was on my way out from work and just saw this...It's so cool. I'm going to try it tomorrow. :) So excited!!! thanks Libby! What would I do without your many finds, resources, creativity, ideas, etc... :)

Christy said...

Very cool. I'll have to check this out (even though I don't have great handwriting). When I had to take tons and tons of notes in college, and the pages were filled with my script, it would look very neat and organized. But that's about it. Otherwise it's totally not something great at all.

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