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Making a font of my handwriting

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334 points kickofline | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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nartho ◴[05 Sep 25 19:34 UTC] No.45142703[source]▶
>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive

The font created is print, not cursive.

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spcebar ◴[05 Sep 25 20:12 UTC] No.45143093[source]▶
At least in the world of web, cursive is a typographic term referring to fonts that aren't sans or sans serif and are typically used for decorative purposes.
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1. pessimizer ◴[05 Sep 25 21:59 UTC] No.45144148[source]▶
I'm pretty sure that's not true in the world of typography. Cursive there afaik mostly means that it has a ton of ligatures (i.e. a ton of "sorts.")

Fonts that are decorative, when I worked in prepress, were simply called "decorative." It just meant "not for body text" i.e. hard or annoying to read. I assume in the past it meant "don't buy a ton of these, and none in small sizes" because you weren't ever going to be putting a bunch on a page.

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2. CharlesW ◴[06 Sep 25 00:57 UTC] No.45145557[source]▶
> I'm pretty sure that's not true in the world of typography.

You're correct, "cursive" is a handwriting term, not a typographic one. The parent commenter almost certainly meant "script". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_typeface