Felix teaches you how to make a font-print and write effects for lazy people

 

The previous article was a headache when I wrote my thoughts and reports to the party. I did not write my own articles, but I had to copy them again. If you replace the font with your own handwriting, isn't it the same as writing it directly? However, it seems that it is not cost-effective to copy the dictionary and input all the fonts into the computer.

However, in the same way, it is still feasible to Enter 26 English letters. In the future, you can print the materials that need to be written in a self-made handwriting font to make things so as to be lazy ~

Next I will introduce how to make my own handwritten font files.

In Windows, font files are stored in the C:/Windows/fonts folder, and each font is stored in a file with the extension TTF.

Therefore, Step 1: Write 26 English letters in uppercase and lowercase, as well as commonly used punctuation marks (can be compared with the symbols on the keyboard), and 10 Arabic numerals on the paper. For example:

 

 

 

Here I use a red pen to draw a four-line lattice for English writing, and a black pen to write some characters to pick a nice one (because you need to realize that, all the characters printed in this font are from the word you wrote ).

Step 2: Use the camera to take the characters at a close distance. Note that you must enable the macro shooting here, otherwise it will be unclear. The effect is as follows:

 

 

Then, use Photoshop to extract the characters and make them into separate images. Of course, these images will be input to the font through the font creation software later. The software I use has the binarization function. If there is no four-line lattice on the paper, direct input is also acceptable. I add a four-line lattice here to adjust the character size easily during input. The specific functions are described below.

 

Step 4: In PS, you can easily extract the font shape from the original photo by using the magic wand tool, and create a new layer, which is initially black, then, cut off the non-character parts in sequence, and add four new black lines according to the position of the four-line lattice. Then, a character is created. I will save it as PNG format, others, such as JPEG, can also be used.

Then, you need a font preparation tool, which can be found on the Internet. Here I use fontcreator, which can be downloaded from csdn and green to Chinese, with only one point.

 

 

Step 5: Use the fontcreator tool to create a new font file, double-click to open each of the corresponding fonts, and then click the "Import image" button above, you can set the image F. PNG is associated with character F.

 

 

Step 6: Open the saved font file Felix handwriting and click "Install" to load the font to the system. Your font will also appear in all your text processing tools. To uninstall the file, you can delete the font file from the C:/Windows/fonts folder.

 

 

Finally, you can swing an English article from the Internet and change the font format to Felix handwriting in the Word document. However, be sure to save it in PDF format, because it can print the font on a machine without the font (if you take the word document to the print shop, however, the font cannot be found !). Final effect:

 

 

 

Good results! It's just a day to celebrate ~ In fact, the workload is quite large. 26 English letters are case-sensitive, with 31 characters and 10 digits, a total of 93 characters. It's really not a matter of patience.

In fact, I still have some improvement ideas for this method. The font generated in this way has the same character. For example, the length of an "F" is exactly the same. Can I create several character libraries? They are slightly different. Then I write a program, read a word file, and randomly change the font to font 1 and font 2... in this case, we will add uncertain factors to the article to simulate the differences between the same character when a person handwriting. I think it will be more realistic. You can do this later ~