Not sure it's practical, but it's a fun toy!
If you're so inclined (and your machine supports TrueType), download and install this TrueType font. (If you don't know how, maybe you'd better not try. I can tell you how it's done on a Windows XP machine, but not on others.)
Once you've done that, refresh this page, and look at this post again.
Now most of you, no doubt, are saying: "What the heck sort of unreadable font is that?" Students who have attended one of my UML classes may be saying: "Hey, I recognize that chicken scratching!"
But what I say when I see it is: "Hey, I don't remember writing that! I mean, yeah, I wrote it; but I didn't write it!"
See, this font was created with My Font Tool from the PowerToys for Tablet PC from Microsoft. It's as simple as it sounds: you use a Tablet PC (of course) to write each standard character from the keyboard, and the tool converts them into a TrueType font. It also lets you tweak line, character, and word spacing for better readability.
Now this is only really practical if your printing's good. I don't think anyone could stand it if my whole blog was done in this font. But it's still rather neat to look at this page, and see what's recognizably my printing. (I especially like the way it handles bold, italic, and
I haven't decided which ones yet; but I'm gonna convert some of my utility apps to use this font. It will make the machine more recognizably mine.
Posted in Amusement, Personal, Tablet PCs, Tech Toys by Martin L. Shoemaker on
Thursday August 25, 2005 at 11:22pm. 0 Comments 0 Trackbacks
