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jdelman 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real fon...

I remember there was a service that would do this by mail in the 90s. You had to fill out a card with each block letter and then it cost a few hundred dollars. I wasn't even a teenager then so I couldn't afford it, but I always wanted to do it.

trentnelson 5 months ago [–]

Well now I’m curious how they did it in the 90s. Some poor schmo doing pixel by pixel font creation?

necovek 5 months ago | [–]

Vector tracing was a thing way back, and from there, it was probably some simple programming to make a font out of a number of vector glyph images.

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