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Fix, Fix a Font, Fix a Font Next To You

And sing "La la", I suppose: as boring and stupid as that sounds.

I need to fix my handwriting font, but I don't feel like it. I slopped it together in CorelDraw just so I would have something to work with. It's really not all that bad. There are a few letters that are spaced a bit oddly, but it's not horribly noticeable since it's handwritten. Such a mistake would be unforgivable if it was a regular font with nice lines and curves. The worst thing about the font is that the line height, font size and baseline are all messed up. Adding underlining to a section makes a line ridiculously low, in front of the next line of text.

Oh well. One of these days I'll fix it. I am considering loading Ubuntu (Linux) on my computer alongside Windows. There is a cool open source font making program, FontForge, that I'd like to try. I tried loading the Windows version a while ago, but it requires too much technical fiddling to make it work, since it's not a native Windows program.

And you ask, "Why on earth would you write a blog entry about something you're going to do, instead of waiting until after it's done, so there's something to show and tell?" Very good question. I guess I don't care about writing quality content anymore. Nobody reads it anyway :) Besides, I've been writing in my journal more lately, and I tend to journal in segments and interrupted thoughts (or in overly expounded and huge arguments).

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