You heard it here first, or maybe you heard about it from Karen the AZ Home Loan Lady like I did. In any case, this is worth passing along: there is a site out there with software that will allow you to create your own font that, theoretically, will look like your own handwriting! As a Realtor, I think it would be great to have my own font so I could type out an address on an envelope and have it look like I wrote it longhand.
(Marketing studies show people open envelopes addressed personally much more often than they do those that are not. They also will open envelopes written with blue ink more often than other colors too. That may be more than you care to know about how far marketing people will go to increase their chances to get their envelopes opened, but the lure of making money... In fact, I saved an article from somewhere about the 13 fallacies about marketing envelopes on my desktop. As a marketer, I actually found it very interesting! If you think you will too, email me and I'll send it to you.)
You download their form, write your letters in the boxes, upload the form, and you can preview the font before you buy it. If you like it, you hand over all of $9.00 and you can download it for your own use.
I see a potential problem with this idea: if you look carefully at all the "handwriting" fonts out there, you will see that the letters are crafted so that they join up when they are next to each other. I don't know about you, but my writing surely doesn't do that. Not in any way, shape, or form.
But if that doesn't deter you, here's the link: http://www.fontifier.com/signature.html
They just introduced a cool feature, though, that I might take advantage of: instead of uploading letters, you can upload your signature, pictures, sayings, greetings, or anything else you might like to add to an email, memo, or whatever to make it look more personal or folksy.
Now that's cool. You can do the same thing, by the way, if you have a notebook computer that allows you to write on it and assorted software to create a jpeg, which is what I've done for my own signature, but if you don't have the notebook and the Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop or whatever, for nine bucks you can't beat it.
Nobody profits monetarily from recommending Fontifier except the Fontifier people. Just so you know.
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