MAKING A FONT

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The author shares their experience of creating a font for the first time. Previously relying on digital text drawing, which sometimes led to inconsistent text size and readability, they decided to design a font based on their own handwriting. This endeavor involved learning about font anatomy, such as ascenders, baselines, and x-heights, and experimenting with two iterations of the font. The final design was derived from writing sentences naturally on paper, scanning them, and cleaning them up digitally. They used software to successfully create a TrueType font (TTF).