{"id":57874,"date":"2009-03-25T16:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordgrrls.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2009-03-25T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:58:05","slug":"type-in-your-own-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2009\/type-in-your-own-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Type in Your Own Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In writing we use fonts far more than we actually think about them. What font are you reading right now? Do you know for sure, me either. I could check the HTML and find out but I don&#8217;t need to. I know it&#8217;s working and it&#8217;s readable.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are endless fonts of every style imaginable. I hunt for fonts when I want to make a new banner or header. Sometimes I have a fairly good idea of roughly what I want. I can almost see it, the shape and size of the letters. Have you ever thought about making your own font? It&#8217;s really quite interesting, typography. Try drawing an alphabet, not writing the letters but drawing them.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three links about making your own fonts in case you are more than just curious.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2007\/10\/22\/so-you-want-to-create-a-font-part-1\/\">I Love Typography: So You Want to Create a Font<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittbox.com\/fonts\/how-to-make-a-hand-drawn-font\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BitBox: How to Make a Hand Drawn Font<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/howto\/index.php\">Chank: How to Make Your Own Fonts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2192535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slate: You Type &#8211; The Strange Allure of Making Your Own Fonts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last of all, you can use <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/\">FontStruct<\/span> to make your fonts. It is free web software. You can create your font and save it to use on Mac or Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2009\/type-in-your-own-style\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Type in Your Own Style\"><p>In writing we use fonts far more than we actually think about them. What font are you reading right now? Do you know for sure, me either. I could check the HTML and find out but I don&#8217;t need to. I know it&#8217;s working and it&#8217;s readable. Still, there are endless fonts of every style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[914,963],"tags":[311,1073,405,458,1099,1171,1227,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}