When I found that notepad, about seven or eight years later, it took me a few hours to figure out what it all said. Mostly I had to get a few words here and there and simply remember what the guy being interviewed was saying, and what happened in the race. That helped me to figure out the rest of it. That sort of pseudo-shorthand of mine was only meant to be good enough to remind me of what a guy had said. Since I was writing the article within a few hours of the press conference, my memory was good enough to remember what was said so long as I had just enough to jog it.
I like the font! I printed a template, wrote letter samples on it (each box has four marks on each side, indicating cap height, x-height, baseline and descender line), scanned it, did a little cleaning up (apparently my scanner bed wasn't quite as clean as I thought it was and there were a few globs), saved and uploaded, and then the font creation process was totally automatic.
The letters look just like my handwriting, although if I set it to a very high point size, I can see some odd tiny bumps on some of the edges, but it's nothing noticeable at normal sizes.
The term "ambigram" is correct for both rotated and reflected designs.
How extensive is the character set? Does it just cover the normal ASCII set, or does it cover at least some diacritics (umlaut, grave, acute, cedilla, tilde, etc.)?
See for yourself. The template is two pages, with page 1 being the standard ASCII stuff, and page 2 being a whole bunch of fun foreign-language characters. The site will let you use just page 1, or both.
No Greek or Cyrillic, alas. I may install a font editing program (the site offers FontCreator) and put them in. :}
But thats cool to be able to make your very own fonts ^_^
I have to agree with aerofox, KT handwriting seems more like what you use for diaries and pics.
http://users.sfo.com/~keeper/scribble.j
What do you think of the quality of the font itself? Did the digitizing process seem to work smoothly? The results certainly look nice.
BTW, love the ambigram sig (if that's the correct term when it's rotational rather than reflected.).
The letters look just like my handwriting, although if I set it to a very high point size, I can see some odd tiny bumps on some of the edges, but it's nothing noticeable at normal sizes.
The term "ambigram" is correct for both rotated and reflected designs.
No Greek or Cyrillic, alas. I may install a font editing program (the site offers FontCreator) and put them in. :}
Edited at 2009-04-23 12:43 am (UTC)