Type in your own handwriting

Ever been tricked by an envelope with handwriting that looked so real that you were sure it was something important (or at least legit), only to find it's a sweepstakes, or a credit offer, or a book club sign-up?

More to the point, ever been a little bit jealous and wished that you could do that on your computer?

Take a look at this:

This sample is from today's verse on my NLT desktop calendar - I typed it into the form at www.signaturesoftware.com, and I have to admit, I'm pretty impressed!

See, what makes normal "handwriting" fonts look phony is that they've only got two shapes for each letter: uppercase and lowercase. The vLetter Pro software uses four different shapes per lowercase letter, depending on which letters come before and after it, so that everything connects up naturally, and there is that variety of shapes that makes handwriting look like it was done by a human and not a machine. Very cool stuff.

And for $149.95 you can have a font made in your own handwriting using this system. I can already think of all kinds of uses... too bad there are at least 149 different things that are screaming out for my cash before I get around to playing with custom handwriting fonts. =(