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This weekend I completed the first pass at designing a font based on my wife’s printing. I turned out pretty well for not spending any clean-up time on it yet, but there are a few things I still need to fix:

• The letter spacing is not refined
• There are no braces characters
• There are no accented characters (except for the n-tilde)
• I may need to tweak the relative line thicknesses (so that all the characters looks like they were drawn with the same pen)

I also haven’t yet decided if I will go through the trouble of creating kerning pairs; if I can figure out how to do it in Fontforge, I probably will.

Even in its current state, Donna’s font is much more usable than the font I created based on my daughters’ 4-year-old printing, since it has all characters represented on a keyboard (except for those braces). It seems a little small, so I may need to tweak that, too.