a font made with FontForge

https://fontforge.org

todo:

• letters start on the baseline (not the descender)
• there are no symbols
• there could be variable letters? (e.g., first variation as uppercase, second as lower)
• M and N have been simplified as they were too complex (too large a filesize) when auto-traced by FontForge. They were traced with potrace -s M1.bmp -t 10 -a 1 -O 1 and potrace -s N1.bmp -t 15 -O 2

notes on texture

most blocky fonts do not have a lot of white, and some are all black. One can open an all-black font in Photoshop/Illustrator/Gimp/etc and apply a mask/pattern that looks like "print speckling", instead of trying to build it into the font

some fonts with some light speckling from printing:

• https://www.myfonts.com/collections/larrikin-font-headfirst
• https://www.myfonts.com/collections/appareo-font-kimmy-design

scripts

transform .png images to .bmp for tracing:

rm -rf images_bmp
mkdir images_bmp
while read -r image; do
  bn="${image##*/}"
  echo "${bn}"
  fn="images_bmp/${bn%.*}.bmp"
  convert "${image}" "${fn}"
done <<< $(find images -type f -name "*.png" -not -name "*all*" | sort)
# for some reason "?.png" makes thing go weird. manually update with
mv "images_bmp/.1-0.bmp" 'images_bmp/?.bmp'
rm "images_bmp/.1-"*".bmp"