This font was one of my very early works as type designer in 2012. Although it was never intended to be a viable font, it was used quite a lot by other designers over the time. Therefore I keep this page and the download option online – on the one hand to document my own humble beginnings and on the other hand to enable other designers to learn from my mistakes.
It’s quite interesting that all tutorials of type design advise you to keep the number of anchor points in each glyph as small as possible. Although I absolutely understand why this advise is given (e.g. because of cutting limitations) I just tried what happens, when you “overload” a font with anchors.
To be honest: Nothing. Nothing really remarkable happens. Most of the desktop publishing software can handle the font quite well. The font (its name is Anilin) is loosely based on my own handwriting. I did the first sketches with a broken pencil on very rough paper and I liked the look. The drawings were scanned using a cheap office scanner and digitized by Adobe Illustrator’s path tracing function.
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If you want to test it on you own: Give it a try and download it here: Anilin Free Font (TTF, 350KB)
The font is free – you can do whatever you want to do with it, even commercially. But please remember my only wish: SEND ME SCREENSHOTS! Although this font was a total experiment: I want to improve my work. So tell me what you did with Anilin and what could be improved or what was missing.