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How to Create Your Own Handwritten Font (in 30 minutes or less)
How to Create a Handwritten Font:
If you’ve ever been too intimidated to make a font, please stand up!
Well today, we’re going to show you a super quick and easy way to create your own handwritten version. (Sounds too good to be true, right?)
Supplies/Needs:
- Trusty iPad
- iFontMaker App ($7.99 on iTunes)
- About 30 minutes
- Stylus
Step One: Download the iFontMaker App and instantly start creating your own font, based off of a host of popular pre-existing fonts. Don’t worry about perfection – the app smooths out bumpy lines for you. Use the editing function to adjust your strokes with the bezier handles. Create the Latin Alphabet, as well as numbers, symbols and a host of other scripts.
Step Two: When finished, upload to “Configure and Build Font.” You’re done! iFontMaker will send you a link to follow. Here, you’ll name your font, download it and choose whether or not to make it available to their audience.
Here’s how mine turned out:
Want to download my font? Please do so here or here >> SakaiHandwritten
Have fun!