Custom Typewriter Font

This was a font I created from a 1930 Smith Corona typewriter. 1930typewriter_image The goal was to create a TrueType or OpenFace font that could be used in Photoshop, Illustrator and converted to a game font for use in a UI system. The first step was to type out all characters and then scan and clean up the image. Each text “cell” was a 1024 x 1024 image so the overall file was quite large (26,624 x 4096). Each cell was saved off and brought into Illustrator to auto-trace it. Auto-traced results were cleaned up and simplified by reducing the vertex count. After auto-tracing, each cell was saved off in .svg format. The .svg cells were brought into FontForge and put into the appropriate cell. Kerning, baseline and other adjustments were made within the software as well as fine-tune adjustments to the overall outline spline for each letter. It was output as an OpenFace format font. This was then installed as a font in Windows and made available to all of the apps such as Photoshop & Illustrator.