Handwriting font that you don’t care about

“FONTSELF a bitmap font and text engine.

FONTSELF is a type project about handwriting and drawn writing.

It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.).

FONTSELF proposes intuitive tools to create and edit bitmap font (scanned letters) as well as solutions to use them and exchange them.”

Basically it’s a font that look like it was actually handwritten.

I have tested out their demo and I must say I am impressed. The details are astonishing.

Here are some photo’s of their font[[close up]] :

These pictures are their examples, taken directly from their website.

I decided to test it out for myself.

There’s more I just don’t feel like uploading all the pictures.

“FONTSELF is a project conceived, designed and developed by a graphic designer, Franz Hoffman, and a software developer, Marc Escher.
Pierre Terrier, graphic designer, also took part in the early graphic design research.”

To see a complete list of their fonts go to: http://www.fontself.com/fontes_B_en.html

Or go to their homepage at : http://www.fontself.com

Sadly according to their website “No release date announced”

So don’t expect to see this project out anytime soon.

Either way I can’t wait till they finish this project.

~ by manny135 on May 4, 2008.