ThiloType
Sommer 2021
About
Thilotype is a font based upon my own handwriting I made in a typography course in my university. It was sampled from a scanned sample and converted via a python script by Christoph Pfeiffer, our tutor for the project. An updated, standalone version of this script, based on Hand2Font, is available on his github.
The scans were then loaded into FontForge and the paths cleaned up (or corrected, sometimes even replaced entirely) and then exported as an OpenType font. The font counts 160 Glyphs in one style and does not impress with its inconsistent kerning and glyph sizing as well as the missing large Ü‽
It was, however, a ton of fun (and work) to make. Enjoy!
Try it out:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Alphabet
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Umlaute
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Ligatures
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