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Cool font-making site
I heard about this cool font-making site (yourfonts.com) on the conlangs community and just gave it a test run. The basic idea is that you print out a template page that has spaces for you to write characters on, then you scan it, upload it to the site, and they turn it into a True-type font. I did a test run with just a basic upper and lower case alphabet taken from the Peniarth 20 Brut y Tywysogion (14th c. Welsh book hand) and here's the result.
This is just a rough first attempt -- the spacing is a bit wide, I wasn't as meticulous with the calligraphy as I could have been, and for a serious attempt I'd want to use the extended character set to have fun with some of the alternate letter forms, ligatures, etc. But I've been looking for an easy font-generation program to play with ever since I messed around with one called Font Monger back a decade or so ago. This could be quite a lot of fun.
By the way, the site is set up to copyright the resulting font to the person who creates it. I'm not quite sure what their business model is (and I did do some research in advance to make sure there weren't any complaints about the site installing spyware or viruses) unless they're directly associated with the font editing software that they suggest at the end of the process (which costs fairly standard software prices).
ETA: Changed the example to jpeg format since there were some format problems in displaying. If you see this note but don't see the text example, please drop a comment so I can trouble-shoot.
This is just a rough first attempt -- the spacing is a bit wide, I wasn't as meticulous with the calligraphy as I could have been, and for a serious attempt I'd want to use the extended character set to have fun with some of the alternate letter forms, ligatures, etc. But I've been looking for an easy font-generation program to play with ever since I messed around with one called Font Monger back a decade or so ago. This could be quite a lot of fun.
By the way, the site is set up to copyright the resulting font to the person who creates it. I'm not quite sure what their business model is (and I did do some research in advance to make sure there weren't any complaints about the site installing spyware or viruses) unless they're directly associated with the font editing software that they suggest at the end of the process (which costs fairly standard software prices).
ETA: Changed the example to jpeg format since there were some format problems in displaying. If you see this note but don't see the text example, please drop a comment so I can trouble-shoot.
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