Design Your Own Font

We all know that a hand written envelope is more personal than one with a typed out label. But who has time for that when you have a stack of 50 envelopes to address? One solution is to use a handwritten font and print the mailing address directly on your envelopes.

There are several websites that can generate a font from your very own handwriting. I chose www.handfont.com to create mine...and it cost less than $10! With four easy steps, a scanned sample of your handwriting is turned into a true type font that you can use in any application.

Download and complete your font form

 

Scan and save your form


Upload your form

Buy and download your font

Once you have your font, you can set up your document in whatever program you choose to use. (I created a document in InDesign and exported the multi-page document to a pdf file.) You can even add hand drawn elements to personalize it even more.

Finally, I sent my document to print and minutes later, my envelopes were done.
This post was originally written as a guest post for Queen Bee Market. Special thanks to Indie Handmade, who inspired this blog.

2011 calendars

Today my onecalendar made it to the front page of Etsy, thanks to this fabulous treasury made by Laura.