SMonohand is a cool monospace handwritten font done by dalles on Open Font Library.
I saw a presentation today done with a blackboard background using Apple’s Chalkboard font. I think SMonohand might be a good font to do this kind of thing in an open way. It will probably appeal to kids too.
Anyone up for packaging it? 🙂 🙂
Máirín Duffy 
Are we packaging individual fonts? Or could we create some sort of otf-fonts-free package that contains like the top 10 free fonts?
Posted by Scott Baker | September 22, 2009, 11:03 amWe do package individual fonts. I’d rather have a lot more than top ten 🙂
Typically though a font family has more than one font, in this case there’s just one and it’s regular / non-bold / non-italic.
Posted by mairin | September 22, 2009, 11:07 amWe do package individual fonts (and forbid font packs since the ones we did in Fedora before didn’t age well).
http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
There are many fonts to package, and few people doing the packaging, so if you’re interested do try your luck and make Máirín happy. It’s not hard (if time consuming)
Posted by Nicolas Mailhot | September 22, 2009, 11:41 amFor a personal taste, you can do your own handwritten font at http://www.fontcapture.com/
You fill a sheet, upload it and then you will get a TrueType font by your own.
Posted by Germán Póo-Caamaño | September 22, 2009, 12:01 pmDon’t take me too serious, but this font could have some serious Comic Sans potential. If that’s a good thing or bad thing you can decide for yourself 😛
Posted by Erik Snoeijs | September 22, 2009, 4:52 pmIt reminds me too much of the awful Comic Sans font.
Posted by ReinoutS | September 22, 2009, 6:30 pmAre you joking? It’s a copy of Comic Sans. And you want to use it for presentations? This is why Open Source isn’t taken seriously. Unprofessional and amateurish design work.
Educate yourself – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans#Ban_Comic_Sans_movement
Posted by Bob Bobson | September 22, 2009, 6:33 pmApple copied Comic Sans…
Of course I know this argument doesn’t work for the non fan-bois and girls (of which I am not a peer either)
I still think there is a place for such fonts.
Posted by mairin | September 24, 2009, 2:29 amI still like Comic Sans. We don’t all need to be popular.
Posted by Richard | October 8, 2009, 3:22 amI think it looks awesome 🙂
Posted by Dread Knight | September 23, 2009, 6:20 amMo, sometime after I migrate back to Boston (right after FUDCon), we’re going to have a font packaging party and get Really, Really Good at packaging fonts. Then we can start making “Ha! Another new font packaged!” posts as well. 😉
Posted by Mel | September 24, 2009, 2:23 amw00t! let’s do it 🙂
Posted by mairin | September 24, 2009, 2:28 amWell, if you can’t wait till then, I can package this now. I’ll have to read up on font packaging guidelines (as I’ve not done this before).
Posted by Michel | September 24, 2009, 6:27 pmThat would be most excellent Michel! There’s tons of fonts I want to package so I’ll have no lack of fonts to package myself once Mel shows me the way 🙂 So if you’re up for giving this font a try now, that would be awesome!
Posted by mairin | September 24, 2009, 7:41 pmHere’s the review request. There’s a couple of things I’m uncertain about, but that’s what reviews are for, after all (e.g. I listed SMonohand as a replacement for Chalkboard, not sure if that’s needed or not).
Posted by Michel | September 30, 2009, 9:10 pmyou rock, thank you so much!
Posted by mairin | October 6, 2009, 10:59 amRight, here we are: smonohand updates.
Cheers,
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Michel
Posted by Michel | October 6, 2009, 4:29 pmWhy would anyone want to use a Comic Sans MS monospaced lookalike is beyond me. Even if you want something casual, this (as Comic Sans MS) is a badly executed font, with a poor design. The style is not really coherent from letter to letter, with some really simple while others sport serif-like cruft.
Well, more choice to the people i guess. As long as it’s not a default or recommended font in any sensible application.
Posted by Florent V. | September 26, 2009, 3:14 pm@Florent for fun.
Posted by Máirín Duffy | September 26, 2009, 3:26 pm