Thursday, June 21, 2007

S'mores and kerning

I thought I was kind of a nerd, but at least I'm not showing up to this (full disclosure: I did, however go here.)

Alternately, check out FONTSELF. This is a pretty alpha project that seems to be aimed at providing the ability to create fonts that preserve the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.)

Looks like they're promising an online tool for uploading drawings, adjusting metrics and kerning, and possibly an adobe plug-in for using the faces off of the interweb. As of now, you can look at it online and wish that it existed -- like the iPhone!