Mar 1
You write, don’t you?
Then get a font of your handwriting.
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts such as Helvetica.
Link here to check it out. I’ll try it. For $9? Sure. I have Fontographer, but it’s a way old version and it’s not worth buying for a single use and I’m not a typographer, so the whole process of going through and making sure the fonts are kerned correctly and whatnot will quickly become tedious instead of fun.
Then I can use it to print “handwritten” notes on my lovely lovely Charles Rennie Mackintosh stationery. That’s a glamour shot of it over here on the right. It comes in a nice box that will be saved for… something. I don’t have any love letters or anything that would be suitable for saving in a stationery box. It’s just as well. That would run contrary to my personality overall.
Also, I think I will share my little mnemonic device for remembering which word is which in the stationary vs. stationery confusion.
Stationery - paper goods ‘n’ stuff.
I remember that it has “-ery” on the end, like “papery.” However, I would sometimes forget whether I should be paying attention to the “a” or the “e” in the word “paper” and use the wrong one. So I needed a double-check.
Stationary - as in a bicycle that goes nowhere or anything that stays put.
I use a visual for this one. I picture a sturdy cartoon-ey letter “A”, standing with its legs apart and hands on its hips (forming a triangle, like a capital “A” does) with a whole lot of attitude, as if to say, “And I tell you I am not moving!” See? STATIONARY. Not going anywhere.
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