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Handdrawn fonts
Posted by deluxehorror in
25 Feb 2004 — 2:46am
25 Feb 2004 — 2:46am
where can i find handdrawn fonts like action jackson?
http://www.dafont.com/en/caracteres.php?size=33.75&y=50&fichier=action_jackson&libelle=Action+Jackson
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25 Feb 2004 — 3:05am
Kenny - Max Kisman has a couple of nice ones.
http://www.hollandfonts.com/CAT.html
Maybe Chank or Brian Bonislawsky?
http://www.chank.com/
http://www.myfonts.com/person/bonislawsky/brian/j/
You could also draw your own, depending on what
flavor you are looking for.
bj
25 Feb 2004 — 3:33am
I've never made my own fonts before (i know, shame on me). Maybe I should give it a try.
Is it difficult? :p
What kind of program do you recomment, after I have made sketches?
25 Feb 2004 — 3:38am
you might check out
http://www.fontifier.com/
In lieu of that, you scan your stuff into a raster program
such as Photoshop.
Streamline the raster to get vector.
Then the vector you can turn into a font using
FontLab or Fontographer or FontStudio.
25 Feb 2004 — 3:45am
great thanks mate!
25 Feb 2004 — 8:40pm
Kemie's pixilate.com.
27 Feb 2004 — 9:45am
>What kind of program do you recomment, after I have made sketches?
Seeing as no-one else mentioned it, if you're new to type design and want to experiment before investing the $600 for FontLab, you could try TypeTool, FontLab's smaller brother, at a fraction of the price, with the added benefit its not nearly as scary to use!
http://www.fontlab.com/html/typetool.html
27 Feb 2004 — 2:07pm
Action Jackson is a Tom7 font, there's a link to his site on the page that lists the font: http://fonts.tom7.com/
All of his fonts are hand drawn like that. I've found several of them useful before.
28 Feb 2004 — 7:55am
great thanks david and chris! just what i was looking for
25 Feb 2004 — 5:41am
Blockhead
25 Feb 2004 — 9:09am
Point Central has some. Their site is down right not though. Astigmatic too.
25 Feb 2004 — 11:39am
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