tiny font victory
Yes, it’s nonsense: But I made these character glyphs in a semi-automatic bitmap converter for tracing in scanned letters into FontForge. It’s currently only a proof of concept, but I want to expand it...
View Articlecreating a TrueType font from your handwriting with your scanner, your...
This looks more than a bit like my handwriting because it is my handwriting! Sure, the spacing of the punctuation needs major work, and I could have fiddled with the baseline alignment, but it’s...
View ArticlePoorFish: an apology font
Truetype font: PoorFish.zip. This is the first one I’ve done that hasn’t needed a printer or scanner. I exported the template to a single image (chargrid.png), then hand-wrote the characters using my...
View ArticleMeltdownHorrid – an unsettled, stereotyped font
I took the glyphs of an overused generic font, and subjected them repeatedly to the modern equivalent of stereotyping: rasterized them, then autotraced the bitmaps. As a side effect, all the character...
View ArticleHershey Writes Again
Update: very preliminary OTF font files are available here: scruss/AVHershey-OTF. These don’t yet even encode all of ASCII, so aren’t yet generally useful. Major breakthrough: yesterday (Feb 5th), I...
View ArticleFifteenTwenty: Commodore 1520 plotter font
For the impatient: download FifteenTwenty-Regular-OTF.zip Updated: now with all ASCII glyphs! The Commodore 1520 was a tiny pen plotter sold for the Commodore 64 home computer. It looked like this: I...
View ArticleFifteenTwenty UltraLight: single-stroke OTF for CNC/plotting
Following on from FifteenTwenty, I made a hairline/single stroke version of the font especially for CNC use. This is a slight misuse of the OpenType format, but if you’re plotting/CNCing/laser cutting,...
View ArticleTwentyfourSixteen – a 17-segment alpha LCD font
Download: TwentyfourSixteen.zip. Made in 2016 by Stewart C. Russell – scruss.com A mono-spaced font family derived from the HPDL-2416 17-segment alphanumeric 17 segment LED display matrix. Design size:...
View ArticleThreeFourTwoTwo
Yup, another highly impractical monospaced font. This one is based on a short-lived 22 segment display made in the early 1980s by Litronix (datasheet). It’s also on Fontlibrary: ThreeFourTwoTwo. Local...
View ArticleFutile Fonts
I make fonts sometimes. All of them have very permissive licensing. ThreeFourTwoTwo — In the early 1980s, just before dot-matrix displays became a thing, companies produced more and more complex...
View ArticleBlockTwo, a dreadful font
BlockTwo is a spectacularly ugly font mostly for playing about with 3D intersections in OpenSCAD. Not recommended for any but the most extreme display usage. Coverage is only A-Z caps, 0-9, heart and...
View Articlemnicmp: the DECwriter lives again!
I just made and uploaded this to FontLibrary: mnicmp. This is meant more as an exercise in learning FontForge‘s programming back-end, and definitely showed me that FontForge is incredibly powerful....
View Articlea font for the person you’re just dotty about
LoveMatrix is a lo-fi dot matrix font made of ♥♥♥s. It’s a seasonally-adjusted version of my mnicmp font. Local copy: LoveMatrix.zip
View ArticleLibrary Hand – Disjoint
LibHandDis — Based on scans of “Library Hand – Disjoint”, described in Dana’s A Library Primer, with some modifications. Major changes from scan: As the scan only covered A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and ‘&’, I...
View ArticlePoorFish, v2
On FontLibrary: PoorFish Local copy: PoorFish.zip Full Language Support: Afrikaans, Baltic, Basic Latin, Catalan, Central European, Dutch, Esperanto, Euro, Turkish, Western European. Terrible kerning...
View ArticleKeypunch029 — for all your punched card font needs …
A fairly accurate rendition of the 5×7 dot matrix font printed at the top of punched cards by the IBM Type 29 Card Punch (1965). Local copy: Keypunch029.zip. Fontlibrary link: Keypunch029 (may not be...
View ArticleFifteenTwenty: Commodore 1520 plotter font
For the impatient: download FifteenTwenty-master.zip FifteenTwenty-Regular-OTF.zip (or more options …) Updated: now with all ASCII glyphs! Update, September 2016: this font was officially squee‘d...
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