Handwriting, the Digital Way

This new campaign for Pilot pens just came out. “Type on a computer with your own handwriting” is a way of romanticizing the handwritten note and quite a clever attempt to invigorate what might appear to be a dwindling market: the writing instrument… You know, with most of us being permanently glued to our computers, the handwritten note has now become a rare sighting.

It’s a charming idea but this particular application didn’t really work for me and it does not create a downloadable font. Now that I was teased with this idea and really wanted my own downloadable personalized handwriting font, I remembered bookmarking this site some time ago: Fontifier.com for “your own handwriting on your computer”.

After some experimentation and examining various iterations of my handwriting rendered as “The quick brown fox jumps….”, I settled on a non-cursive style. It looks like this:

I think that I will try a stylized font next. The Fontifier is a great idea for people with beautiful, calligraphy-like handwriting, or for those looking to create that distinctive style. Or, like me, just for fun. I will set it as my default font for email. It was $9.