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DMAC · December 2016

After a bot reposted a photo of my printing on Reddit which led to a fairly lengthy discussion about whether or not I'm a robot, I wound up making a post myself which hit the front page.

And the discussion on that post led to my second post.

One of the things I got asked for several dozen times was a font based on my handwriting so today I used an online generator to make one:

Here's a link: www.darrencalvert.com/DMACFont.ttf

You can download a template at myscriptfont.com, fill it out, and make your own.

Do you print neatly, scrawl like a crazy person, somewhere in between?

knitdan · December 2016

I used to have pretty neat handwriting, I did allcaps for a while. Got into the habit when I thought I might become an engineer and was doing a lot of drafting. Never as nice as yours though and now I do mostly chickenscratch.

OnTheLastCastle · December 2016

Awesome!! Since you ask..

I was writing in my journal today (poorly, it balanced on one knee while I reclined, a fact I knew future generations would puzzle over) when I considered how my signature had boiled down to a very quick but precise shape. I'm fairly confident no amateur could make this but it was not at all my name.

How'd I slowly evolve this beautiful hieroglyph, I wondered.

So I signed it three times at the end of the journal entry with a smug face.

Your handwriting is gorgeous of course.

DMAC · December 2016

knitdan wrote: »

I used to have pretty neat handwriting, I did allcaps for a while. Got into the habit when I thought I might become an engineer and was doing a lot of drafting. Never as nice as yours though and now I do mostly chickenscratch.

My printing basically came from being bored in class + drafting + comic books. I would occasionally change "fonts" while taking notes just to keep myself entertained.

DasUberEdward · December 2016

i do not have the hubris to t h i n k that i have the intelligence to make something as nuanced as a font.

Gustav · December 2016

Oh hey that's how I made my fonts for my comic.

so thats what fontscript looks like with decent handwriting

DasUberEdward · December 2016

Virgil_Leads_You · December 2016

I've never adopted how to hold a pencil correctly. I know how to do it, but it's the worst? (those pencil gripper things were bad growing up)
It's all printing with a claw as an adult. Always have hands covered in Ink/Graphite, and smudges on my work.
(Painting and drawing with a claw about the same)

Prolegomena · December 2016

I was taught how to write by someone extremely incompetent and have never recovered. I did get a handwriting book a couple of years ago with the intention of sorting it out but.... playing guitar or drums is more fun.

Virgil_Leads_You · December 2016

I like the lower case lettering the best in DMACFont.ttf
Thank you for sharing it!

DMAC · December 2016

I hold my writing/drawing utensils right down at the end too which can cause problems. I usually put a second piece of paper under my hand when drawing to avoid it turning into one giant smudge.

Speed Racer · December 2016

My handwriting stopped developing somewhere around the fourth grade

Knight_ · December 2016

I frequently can't read my own handwriting.

It's a problem.

DMAC · December 2016

Knight_ wrote: »

I frequently can't read my own handwriting.

It's a problem.

I had a university teacher who handed back our essays with half a page or more of feedback on each one and nobody could make out more than a few words. When we finally gave up and brought them to him to interpret, he couldn't read them either.

Duke 2.0 · December 2016

I feel I'm lazy about how I write. Looking at the letters my hand makes the general gestures as in cursive, but other letters will morph how much my hand will bother depending on where the pencil needs to move next. And I don't keep my hand directly over the letters being written, I tend to park it in a place, write until I can't stretch the pencil head all the way to the right anymore, and then move my hand over a few inches.

Attempts at fixing this while bored in college led to immense frustration and the idea that I'm just wired to be shitty at art. No point in practice my brain and hands just ain't gonna improve

Been trying to get into improving this as of late, no real improvement being observed

Lost Salient · December 2016

My handwriting looks A RIGHT MESS unless I concentrate on legibility.

Needs to be vaguely legible:

Actual scribble with bonus kitchen stains:

I'm so jealous of DMAC and people like my father, whose handwriting is tidy.

TheStig · December 2016

I never learned to write cursive. Everyone in school who told me I would have to lied.

tynic · December 2016

my cursive is great
my printing sucks balls

Dedwrekka · December 2016

The DMAC will be the next ComicSans.
Really good for a few things, intended to copy hand lettering, and really overused because it's free.

Virgil_Leads_You · December 2016

One issue I discovered in college was that I couldn't write fast enough.
I enjoy taking notes but there is a sense of despair when you go 100% on speed and you still lose ground to the professor.
Then look back on your notes and find them half illegible, and hope that by trying to write it out, ya at least absorbed some info.

Veldrin · December 2016

Donovan Puppyfucker · December 2016

I remember years ago somebody found that font generator and heaps of people took turns making fonts, somebody made a font that was all bones, and I think it was Belruel that made of font composed entirely of cocks?

Good times.

Also, my handwriting is terrible. I have to concentrate for it to be legible for myself on a re-read, if someone else is supposed to read it, writing anything longer than a sentence by hand is slower than just typing it in notepad and printing it out:

Felt tip pen:

Ball point pen:

OmnipotentBagel · December 2016

chrishallett83 wrote: »

nislet lmornilig

DaMoonRulz · December 2016

chrishallett83 wrote: »

Ball point pen:

rusted lemonmelting

Echo · December 2016

honovere · December 2016

edit: With a big fat misspelling in it...

Echo · December 2016

Decomposey · December 2016

My husband has described my handwriting as "the marks left when a drunk chicken is chased by a monkey riding a velociraptor." Which I think means my handwriting is bad, but awesome?

Darth Waiter · December 2016

I think the best insult-pliment (compli-sult?) I have ever received about my handwriting was, "It looks like a serial killer writing a grocery list for a drunken hobo."

tynic · December 2016

I'm assuming that means it's pretty legible, cause I mean, drunken hobos aren't known for their ability to decipher hieroglyphics.

(and serial killers are notorious anal retents).

Echo · December 2016

Random trivia: the Swedish idiom for "chicken scratch" is "crow's feet". Also "writing like a crow".

RT800 · December 2016

My handwriting is shit. Legible, but shit. I prefer all caps when writing by hand.

Cursive can go fuck itself. I remember learning it in school and asking the teacher "why" I must learn a second form of writing.

Her answer was that it's "faster" since your pen leaves the page less often.

To this day that answer sounds like bullshit.

What, did some school board director somewhere think "Our kids can write pretty well but, damnit, they just aren't writing fast enough!"?

Darth Waiter · December 2016

tynic wrote: »

I'm assuming that means it's pretty legible, cause I mean, drunken hobos aren't known for their ability to decipher hieroglyphics.

(and serial killers are notorious anal retents).

Oh. Oh, God no, it's just terrible.

miscellaneousinsanity · December 2016

i only write in D'Nealian

SCREECH OF THE FARG · December 2016

i naturally write in comic sans

End · December 2016

my handwriting is bad
also I seem to have no working pens

I don't think those two facts are related, but I'm not sure

DMAC · December 2016

I love writing with a brand new pen. In a brand new notepad.

Oh baby.

#pipe · December 2016

I am also a graphic designer but I have literally zero illustration skills (thanks, Adobe Creative Suite!) and I've always been super embarrassed of my hand writing.

Here is a photo of the note that went with my Secret Satan gift

TrippyJing · December 2016

I can't recall the last time I wrote anything on paper that wasn't a form I was filling out.

DMAC · December 2016

#pipe wrote: »

I am also a graphic designer but I have literally zero illustration skills (thanks, Adobe Creative Suite!) and I've always been super embarrassed of my hand writing.

Here is a photo of the note that went with my Secret Satan gift

That actually looks quite a bit like my brother's writing. My dad on the other hand has printing I've always considered neater than mine. I keep meaning to get him to write something for me to post.

Also I like the idea of signing correspondence with "Your Satan,".

facetious · December 2016

I'm learning/practicing 18th century penmanship. Including the long 's'.

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