Something I Occasionally do

One of the things I enjoy doing on a computer is font creation. To create a complete set of fonts from already existing images takes anywhere from 45 minutes for a set of dingbats or printing, to several hours of editing and reworking for cursive fonts.

Here is an image that has several sets of "dingbats" I have done.

The top one is images taken from Archie Comics which I must be careful about sharing because of copywrite issues.

The second and one is based on military rank insignia followed by a third one consisting of rating symbols for the US Navy

After that there is series of Heraldic Images

The last one is based on the periodic table which I plan to extensively rework.

Then there are some true fonts. The first one is taken from my own penmanship (such as it is) and letter for letter it looks like my writing, but no person writes with such regularity as to easily turn there cursive into a font and the letters needed to be edited so that they could fit together. As a result the letters are my own hand, but they are not fit together naturally as they would actually look if I had handwritten the words.

Printing is actually much easier to make into a font because you don't have to line up the letters perfectly and the natural irregularity of human writing is not a problem. The first line of printing is my own, followed by the brother who frequently comments here, his daughter's printing and his "angel's" daughter's writing as well.

I got the software from TUCOWS and it has a 30 free trial period and costs $65.00. I purchased it about a year ago. It is called "High-Logic Font Creator".