They were written with a Lamy M66 B pen and only minor adjustments were made to the original scans, leaving most little flaws and rough edges as they were for a convincing ball-point on paper result. File:Tim Hortons logo.svg From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository File File history File usage on Commons File usage on other wikis Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 300 × 65 pixels. The 2019 dearJoe 7 font is the latest addition to this font family.Īll characters were scanned from handwritten notes, cherrypicking the characters and letter-combinations I liked best. In the last decade or so I started implementing ligatures and alternate characters, which helped a lot in coming to a result that can almost pass for actual handwriting. Inbetween creating other fonts, the dearJoe series has become a theme I revisit every once in a while, trying to create an update on how my handwriting has evolved, along with my abilities in creating fonts that mimic actual handwriting. The font is not something I am particularly proud of, but it started me of in building what’s now the JOEBOB graphics foundry. Which they did: at this moment the dearJoe 1 font has been downloaded millions of times and can be found on Vietnamese riksjas, Tasmanian gyms and chocolate stores on 5th Avenue for instance.

Being able to type in my own hand had always been a childhood fantasy, and even though I only partly understood the software, a working font was generated and I decided to put it on the internet for people to use in their own personal projects. The dearJoe series of fonts came to life around the year 1999, when I created dearJoe 1, which was a first (and half-assed) attempt to convert my own handwriting into a working font.

Tim horton's font