Handwriting on your blog
Just some of the fonts available at dafont.com
This is an updated version of an article I published on 7 November 2014. What I didn’t realise at the time is that the handwriting font only shows up on other people’s computers if they have the handwriting font installed. I’ve tried embedding the font in the html of the blog post, but that didn’t work.
Therefore I think if you want to view the blog post below as it was intended to be seen, you have to install the font mentioned in the sentence “The one I’m using here is….”.
So, you’d like to use a handwriting font on your website or blog? It’s pretty easy, but you ought to think about the impression you want to create. And perhaps use it sparingly, unlke in this article.
As it happens, I didn’t think about this at all until I came across the “Dating fails” blog posts by Timothy Goodman. I say “came across”: they landed in my email inbox courtesy of an Adobe newsletter. Those articles, autobiographical notes about how he fared in the girl-boy game, clearly lend themselves to a handwriting font approach. Unlike the article you’re reading now, I think!To find handwriting fonts, just do a search on “handwriting fonts for websites”. I found a particularly useful site: 75 Free Handwriting Fonts for Designers. The one I’m using here is Notebook Scribble.
An article I think you will find especially useful is this one: Tips in Using Handwriting Fonts for Stunning Web Designs.
Well that's enough on this subject for now. Normal fonts will be resumed as soon as possible!