A while ago I created a font of my handwriting using a for-pay font-making website. For various reasons I was never terribly happy with the results, although I thought the small amount of money I was changed was a fair price. I kept using the font, waiting for something better.

That something better is YourFonts, a new font-making website that is free. An added bonus is that it does a much better job of creating a font than the other service did, with a much fuller range of characters and proper spline-based outlines.

If you are using a browser that supports @font-face (Safari or Firefox betas) then you are looking at the result – I think it is an improvement, if not a great leap forward for typography.

If you are planning to use YourFonts, or a similar service I have some hints.
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