Yesterday I was doing some writing about food and produced some text for a forum using Microsoft WordPad.
Later, after I had written the text and produced a title, I decided to try to make a pdf version.
During that process I decided to put the title in the Sonnet Calligraphic font and to try to use some swash glyphs.
Thus the attached pdf is not an example devised to display some particular glyph or glyphs of the font, it is a document starting from the text and then using the font with the text that is there.
The body text is set in a font that I produced some time ago using Scanahand, during the original beta test, and modified slightly using FontCreator. The modifications are small, I produced individual glyphs for some ligatures by extracting them from the signature glyph where I had drawn their artwork. The Gallery Plus version, used here, has the lowercase h moved vertically as I had drawn it too low and it stood out. I use the font as my personal font in situations where I wish to combine the functionality of a serifed book typeface with the personal look of a handwritten typeface.
Thus the document displays text that I have written myself using fonts that I have designed myself with those two aspects independent of each other.
oven_chips_pasta_and_rice.pdf (14.7 KB)
William Overington
20 October 2010