Sometimes in my job digital fonts simply won't cut it, which usually leads to the tedious process of hand rendering copy. Then, like most design projects, the client changes the copy, forcing me to do the process all over again. Nevertheless, it's a damn headache.

Today I ran across a project that might (will) change this process forever. Fontself is a side project of the Swiss graphic + motion design firm koilinen, which deserves its own weblog entry. "[Fontself] provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.)."

"[It] proposes intuitive tools to create and edit bitmap font (scanned letters) as well as solutions to use them and exchange them."

I haven't been this excited about a computer tool since Scriptographer.