Using a Personalized Font on the Computer

It is amazing how many things are being done 'for us' with technology.

Why bother learning handwritting when you can just type..or even now, just scratch a few letters onto some paper, and someone else will do the work for you.

The Christmas letter in traditional chickenscrathcing. All the more reason to just toss the damn things.
We still get many enthusiastic letters about how important our family members lives have become. So much so that I designed a family coat of arms with a brass horn coming out of the butt of a suited man and a woman in a cape and tights.

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I already have one; it comes free with a hand held word processing instrument that cost me 50 centimes d'euro.

More seriously, I can spot handwriting fonts a mile off, they are too regular, e.g. they use the same style for letters when handwriting would not, e.g the same style 's' at the start and end of a word which I certainly don't do when I write by hand. When I see marketing materials masquerading as handwritten letters, I tend to put them in the trash without reading them. Likewise family newsletters, a personal pet hate of mine.

shewolfnm- I find that the older that I get, the more difficult it is for me to write for any length of time in a legible fashion. Arthritis in my thumb can be thanked for that.

I don't have any problem typing though (except for the typos ). I certainly would not want to burden people with having to wade through my handwriting, so I think that I will stick with the popular fonts.

When I E Mail to a friend, I typically use the Comic sans MS font in italics. It is kind of a "friendly" font, not too dissimilar to handwriting, and seems appropriate to me for informal mail.

I, for one, am probably not in favor of it. The reason?

After 30 years + of sitting in front of "the tube" I can longer read my own hand writing. It has deteriated to a non-legible scrawl from disuse.

Printing is another matter due to my graphic arts background. One would never realize that the two came out of the same pen.

For instance, I copied two lines of poetry from a book the other day, came back two hours later to transfer it to the computer and honestly could not read it. Fortunately my memory was better than my script.

Pass.

Back in the late '50's my sister chose a "cursive" font for her going-to-college typewriter. It was standardized cursive but very legible even when she used green typewriter ribbon.

Personalized computer fonts? I'm getting resigned to mass produced originality, but I'm not going to embrace that sort of progress.

In my teens, my handwriting was a bit crabbed and confined (at the time I thought "dainty" and "precise"). Since I've typed every since then, my handwriting is a sprawling scrawl. By the time I finish a 150 word sympathy note, my hand hurts.

I don't do a Holiday Newsletter, but I do type individual notes on most of my Christmas Cards. I keep a typewriter in the house for this once-a-year chore.

This has been around for a while. Somebody encouraged me to do it (make my handwriting into a font) about a dozen years ago.

The Holiday Newsletter, oy. I struggle with this every year. (To do, or not to do?) I find the thought of hand-writing something for everyone on our list onerous. And most of the list sends me newsletters, so... E.G. had the idea of, this year, sending out every newsletter I've composed for the last 6 years (I did one the year sozlet was born and we'd moved to a new house, then I have composed but not sent them ever since). I'm thinking of doing it -- a paragraph here, a paragraph there, with the year it's from.

Maybe I'll do a combo -- holiday newsletters to those who seem like they'd appreciate it, handwritten notes to the rest.

I just don't knoooooowww!!! <tears out a bit of hair>

Using a Personalized Font on the Computer
I dunno.

I'm not a fan of those holiday news letters; it's not as if they were personal, or individual, or aimed at me.

As for those pseudo-personal letters, well - they're pseudo.

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They get on my tits as we say where I come from.

no to both.