The most wonderful things come to me from Twitter, such as this:

If you like your handwriting, here's how to turn it into a font http://t.co/4vvy3sUt7Y http://t.co/il4UmaBfCf

— mariusthefrog (@mariusthefrog) March 21, 2015

That link (eventually) takes you to www.myscriptfont.com, where you can make a font based on your own handwriting. Best of all, it’s free.

Here’s how my own font turned out:

Yeah, I got excited and screwed that up a bit. And it really doesn’t look a lot like my handwriting, because I don’t normally write a single letter at a time into little boxes, and was doing the whole thing in a rush. But it’s awesome!

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