27 – “Abolition of cash solved every problem in the world”

26 – “Spring is very romantic”

25 – “Distr-action cam”

24 – “Do you want a premium account?”

23 – “Excessive enthusiasm”

 

22 – “The final frontier”

21 – “TV will never die”

20 – “And everything goes *awww*”

19 – “Working too much on pc”

Font for my comic

Every time I post a new comic strip I’m worried about the text in it. My handwriting isn’t good and people could struggle to understand some words. Even if I haven’t get any critique about it, I thought to create a new font from scratch.

The web is plenty of free fonts, even for commercial use, but to avoid the mess of licenses I decided to build up mine. It’s a work in progress, however I succeeded in exporting, installing and using the font. Below a screenshot.

As you can see, the font is based on my handwriting and there are only uppercase letters (because I used them in the comic), numbers and the most important symbols.

I used 3 software on linux to achieve this result:

• krita to handraw the characters (you can use any drawing tool, even pencil & paper and then scan it)
• inkscape to convert the .png file (raster) into an .svg (vector) and adjust every symbol
• fontforge to assign every image to the corresponding char code and export a font file

I will make the font downloadable soon.