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Add a personal touch to your computer

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a font made up with your own handwriting? Now you can have one - although having seen mine, you can see why I'm better off typing than writing! Seriously though - how cool is this? It's completely free too! My friend and colleague, Garry Martin, dropped me an e-mail a few days ago to tell me about YourFonts.com. Basically, you download a template into which you provide an example of each character, then scan it, upload it, and wait for the site to generate a TrueType Font file based on your sample. It took a few tries to upload and generate my font as the site was featured on LifeHacker but it's worth persevering. Don't worry, I won't be writing all of my future blog posts in this scrawl!.

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2 responses to “Add a personal touch to your computer”

  1. Chris Duck avatar
    Chris Duck

    There is also an XP Tablet PowerToy (which I used on Window 7, I assume Vista would work as well) called “My Font Tool for Tablet PC” that you can do the same thing with if you have a tablet or other pen input device.

    You can download it free here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx

  2. Mark Wilson avatar
    Mark Wilson

    @Chris – that sounds interesting. Sadly I don’t have access to a tablet PC (and I’ve never really got used to using my graphics tablet).

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