I’m very font of this method.
Today, you are going to learn how to do THIS.
There are a lot of ways to turn your handwriting into a font, but this is hands down the easiest way. It takes FIVE MINUTES.
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Don't use a ball point pen. Use a marker! Also, you really do have to stay in the gray boxes. The bottoms of my g's got cut off. Sad.
Scan it at 300 dpi in grayscale, not color.
Unfortunately, you can't just take a picture with your phone, you have to use an actual scanner. I tried and failed miserably.
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Upload the template to MyScriptFont.com and then you'll get this:
Looks good? Proceed. Looks like a buncha weird boxes? Make sure your template file is properly rotated (portrait, not landscape).
If you're wondering whether you should download it as an "OTF" file vs. "TTF" file, consider that .otf is a relatively newer format, so more tools work with .ttf font sets.
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