Christopher Souvey's Blog

Today, while I was supposed to be studying for my AP tests, I found all sorts of ways to distract myself:  watching TV, playing Super Smash Bros Brawl (unlocked every character & map and beat every event this weekend), and making fonts.

For the first one, I wrote out the alphabet and some characters, scanned them in, vectorized them, and made a font (using FontCreator).  It took a few hours, but it actually looks kind of cool.

This year in Latin, we wrote a fable, translated it into Latin, learned blackletter calligraphy, and are currently writing and illustrating it.  I found a sheet of paper in my backpack that I had been practicing calligraphy on (copying a random Latin passage), scanned it in, cut out the best of each letter, and made it into a font.  I actually really like how this one turned out.  Oh, and before you think, “ipfum? he is in Latin right?” know that it’s called a long, medial, or descending s, is often used in place of a short s everywhere other than the end of a word in blackletter calligraphy, and happens to also appear in the United States Bill of Rights.

Finally, for the last one, I just kind of threw something together from my cursive (which as you will see, is not very attractive).  This one was tricky, because all the letters have to attach to each other, so I had to modify all of the letters after vectorization so they would fit together with all the others.

If you want to download one of these, just leave a comment stating what you want to use it for, and I’ll mail it to you (as a TrueType font).  I’m not trying to moderate them or anything (I’ll let anyone who wants one take it), I just want to know what (if anything) people want them for.

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