Creating a Custom Handwriting Font for Personal Website Authenticity
By
kickofline
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Summary
The author describes their personal project to create a custom font from their own handwriting to make their personal website more distinctive and authentic. They discuss their motivation to avoid the generic corporate aesthetic of modern websites while not fully embracing the chaotic Geocities-era design. The article details the technical process of creating a handwriting font, including scanning, vectorization, and font generation tools.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledRecently I've been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more... personal
Little ways to make it obvious it's mine and personal, not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days
I don't quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with animated under construction GIFs, but I do want to capture some of that vibe
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