Sketches

Type design meets instant gratification. Font Capture is a newly launched utility that will take a scan of your handwriting and turn it into an actual true type font. I admit I was skeptical when I first came to the site, but decided to give it a run and see how it turned out.

The process was fairly easy:

1. Download and print the template page
2. Write all the letters in their appropriate boxes
3. Scan and upload the completed template back to the site
4. Preview the result and download my completed font

There are a few tricks to getting a nice result. Read more »

Births, deaths, awards, and marriages; these are perfect little icons to help announce major events in people’s lives. I’ve found them useful. You might as well too. No point in reinventing the wheel, right?

Download the Illustrator File: life stages icon set01.zip

This is a set of icons I created a few years back when I was updating my portfolio site.

The site is looking a little out of date these days, but I ran across the icons, and thought I should throw them out here so I know where they are in case I find a use for them again. If you want to put them to use, just download the vector-based file below.

Download Illustrator File: seed_icon_set01.zip

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