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I was always a high achiever academically in school, and my favorite subject was math. I got into a “fast math” program that taught Algebra I and II in middle school. I loved it, and I now wish I remembered the long-hand way to compute square roots I learned in that class. The next year, as a freshman in high school, I took geometry (typical for a 9th grader) and pre-calculus (decidedly not typical). The end result was that by the time I was a sophomore in high school, I had run out of math classes to take at my high school (pre-calc was as far as my small school went). The solution we came up with was for me to take evening math classes as a local college.

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I just finished a fun project. Using the free FontForge program, I meticulously traced some letters I had my daughters draw when they were 4 years old. I had imagined creating a font based on their writing back then, but did not complete the project. Recently, for some reason, I got the urge to complete them - so I did!

Elena4yo.ttf

Amanda4yo.ttf

As fonts, these are both rather incomplete. The lower case letters are identical to the upper case letters, and there are no numbers, punctuation, or symbols. I did artificially create a period and comma for both, but that's it. Although this is all consistent with how they wrote at the time, it makes actually using the font a little less practical.

Next, I'm going to see if Donna wants me to create a font based on her writing, and when the girls turn 8, I'll do another font based on their writing.