I discovered this site a couple years ago, and I love it! I’m sure there are others like it out there, and perhaps I’m behind on the times to realize something like this exists, but, nevertheless, I had to share. On Calligraphr (no “e”), you can create your own font for free! The free account lets you do the basic upper and lower case letters, numbers, and basic punctuation (although, I find it doesn’t always pick up my quotation marks and apostrophes). It will also let you add one whole set of variants so that your font has a more natural look. The paid account will let you store/work with many fonts at once, contains more characters, more variant possibilities, and other features. (Once your font is saved and stored on your computer from the free account, it stays there; you just can’t store more than one font at a time on their site with the free one.)
I have yet to create anything super fancy or artistic on here, but I’ve done my own basic font, and I LOVE, love using it for our daughter. She enjoys writing stories, so this is a great way to type up her longer work, but have it “written” in her handwriting. Since her handwriting is still changing so much, it’s fun to update it as she grows. This would also be a fun way to personalize letters or cards to people, if your kid isn’t up to the stage of writing lengthy text.
It took me a little bit of a learning curve to figure out where to place my letters within their guidelines, but if you look through “Tutorial 1,” it’s quite clear how to do it.
Anyway, just thought I’d share for anyone else who didn’t know this was out there. It’s a fun way to personalize letters, cards, poetry, and stories, without much effort.