Fontaholics

Chris,
The new design is great, I agree that the content on the right side kind of interferes with your Prillo font and ultimate design style. Thank you for returning to a date and time heading for your posts.

Hey everyone:
I got really motivated last night when I saw the handwriting font and set out to learn more. After much looking at software, I decided that the co$t and learning curve were not worth it so I looked for services to do it for me.
Most of what I found was WAY to expensive ($100-200) for a person to do for “fun”, but I did finally find a site that appears to do a good job at a VERY resonable price.
Check out http://www.fontgod.com to see what I'm talking about. I just thought with all the requests in the earlier post that I'd try to help you all out. It's amazing what you can find when working graveyard shift and have internet access :)
Chris-
If you would rather do this yourself, feel free to delete this post :)

as cool as having your hand writing on the screen, it doesn't help the readability of the site.

I really don't think I'm important enough to the internet world to get my font TrueTyped OR OpenTyped. That's the magic of it, my words should just be typed. Right now, I'm too busy battling MovableType. I've engaged in all out war with Tux..he's winning.

Nice background, font makes the readability go down the tube. Doesn't make it any less entertaining though :)

I can read it just fine and it looks GREAT! :) You all need to install Chris' font and then you will all be able to read this as intended. :)

If I did this with my handwriting I don't think anyone (myself included!) would be able to read it! Your handwriting is very legible though. This is such a cool design, totally different than anything I've seen elsewhere.

Lisa: I do have the font installed and it is readable just not as readable as a true-type font would be.
On a positive note I love having the posted date available.

Gee I hope this doesn't become a trend, there's a reason people have been using typewriters and computers to communicate instead of handwriting. It's called readability. Your's isn't too bad, but I still would rather not have to install fonts on every website I visit and then try to decipher the handwriting of anyone, even you. :)
BTW, if you included all of your post content in your XML feed I would be able to view the text the way I want to, in my aggregator, just a thought…

I'll ditto Mike's comments as it takes me twice as long to read the posts in the font (and capitals is considered shouting remember! :-)
Posting the entire content would also be cool – and if you could do gretchen's whilst your at it even better :-)

I like this site much more than the previous version. This one is faster on PC's and actually works on Mac's
Cool!

On our Linux machine the font doesn't show up but on Windows it's fine – though a little hard to read. Maybe if you redid the handwriting a little more carefully? The letters sort of have that shaky Parkinsons thing going on. I like the idea, though, personal touch and all that.

The squished face thing I got after I clicked “preview” scared the crap out of me, by the way. :)

Chris, this new design is pretty neat, unfortunately it doesn't look so hot in the non-IE browsers I use at home on my Linux box.

Another font making program is Font Creator from high-logic.com ($50 shareware). I haven't used it, but my sister made a font out of my handwriting that looked pretty good.

I doubt that anybody would be able to understand my writing anyhow…

How do you convert the TrueType to OpenType?