Very Happy. Not fancy. I've been wanting to do this for some time.
I wasn't aiming for a smoothed-over, high-gloss font. Comments welcome.
Shawnself
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shawn daniel hendricks
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Shawnself
Created a font. Here it is.
Very Happy. Not fancy. I've been wanting to do this for some time.
I wasn't aiming for a smoothed-over, high-gloss font. Comments welcome.
Very Happy. Not fancy. I've been wanting to do this for some time.
I wasn't aiming for a smoothed-over, high-gloss font. Comments welcome.
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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A bit of work needed on the spacing of these characters:
F L h and 1.
The period could do with being further left.
The hyphen is a bit too high — vertical centre of x-height or slightly higher is better.
The em-dash is a bit too heavy and the en-dash is a bit too short.
The single dagger † and £ sign seem to be missing
F L h and 1.
The period could do with being further left.
The hyphen is a bit too high — vertical centre of x-height or slightly higher is better.
The em-dash is a bit too heavy and the en-dash is a bit too short.
The single dagger † and £ sign seem to be missing
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William
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A stylish font: yes, it does convey a feeling of happiness.
I notice that you have mentioned Shawnself.ttf in your text.
I notice that that is nine letters, mixed uppercase and lowercase with the extension in lowercase.
That may be fine, I am unsure. However, if it were named SHAWNSLF.TTF with eight letters all uppercase and an uppercase TTF it might avoid the possibility of some problems. That is something of which I have no proof yet it is a precaution which I try to take with my own fonts as I have a residual feeling from the way that Windows sits on DOS and the origins of DOS goes back years and fonts can be used on older machines and non-PCs as well, that maybe it is safer to make the file name compatible with the earliest versions of DOS, just in case some software routine builds on some early DOS specification.
In your font, I particularly like the following designs.
b d q 3 5 zero $
William Overington
I notice that you have mentioned Shawnself.ttf in your text.
I notice that that is nine letters, mixed uppercase and lowercase with the extension in lowercase.
That may be fine, I am unsure. However, if it were named SHAWNSLF.TTF with eight letters all uppercase and an uppercase TTF it might avoid the possibility of some problems. That is something of which I have no proof yet it is a precaution which I try to take with my own fonts as I have a residual feeling from the way that Windows sits on DOS and the origins of DOS goes back years and fonts can be used on older machines and non-PCs as well, that maybe it is safer to make the file name compatible with the earliest versions of DOS, just in case some software routine builds on some early DOS specification.
In your font, I particularly like the following designs.
b d q 3 5 zero $
William Overington