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Type in Your Own Style: MyFontPosted in Entertainment on 14 Jul 2010 |
 Written by Kevin Diep |
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In recent years, texting and email have become the norms of communication. Most have welcomed this advancement in human society. But is this shift away from traditional forms of communication always good for us? Some argue that as we grow more accustomed to these forms of communication, we’ve lost our “personal touch” by giving up our individual quirks that manifest themselves in our handwriting and adapting generic fonts, like Times New Roman and Arial. And to these people this is leading us to give up some of our personal connections with the people who we communicate with. I don’t think we’ll ever go back to the days of handwritten letters and documents. We can, however, begin to add a personal touch to our texts with apps like MyFont.
MyFont is an app that allows you to input your own handwriting into your texts, documents, and other digital documents. The concept behind the app is simple enough. It has you write each letter of the alphabet and the numbers 0-9 with your finger in the style that you like to write. Then it takes your input and makes it so that when you use the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad keyboard to type, you own variations of the english alphabet appear instead of the fonts you typically expect from generic electronic documents. Once you’re done creating your font, you can begin typing in your writing style. You can add even more customization by inserting images and backgrounds to your message.
I really like this app because I like the personal feel of the documents I created. It was like I wrote my notes with my hand. This way is much easier (assuming everyone else is a decent typist) than taking up a pen or pencil and writing it down. I ran into the problem of letters being too close to each other to read. For instance, I couldn’t exactly read parts where my letter “i” stood after my letter “l” because they were way to close and it looked like one big glob of text. Clearly, the app isn’t perfect, but I still think it’s a great app. It’s a great concept, with an intuitive user interface and I’d like to see what becomes of this app.
