When I was little I really liked calligraphy. That led to just liking handwriting in general (there’s some crazy handwriting in my family). From there, I started noticing graffiti. Then it was hand-painted signs. And now it’s just typography in general. So, the other day I scanned my handwriting and turned it into paths in Illustrator (above) but if I wanted to use it I had to hand-set each character — cool, but not efficient. What I really needed was to turn it into a real font, and lo-and-behold, there was a link to Your Fonts starting back at me this morning. It’s free, quick, easy, and gives surprisingly good results (below). I highly recommend making yourself a font.

Via new/stuff.