Fonts for Peas

Through my favorite blog/forum/advice/everything-wedding-related website, weddingbee.com, I discovered a fantastic website called Fonts for Peas, which is part of the blog kevinandamanda.com. It's an e-valhalla of cool, free fonts that are derived from real people's handwriting.

The blog's readers can submit their own handwriting samples to Amanda, who then transforms the handwriting into an electronic font. Pretty cool, huh? The best part about it is that all of the fonts are created at no charge to the submitter and can be downloaded by anyone for free! I picked out a few of my favorites to share with you all...

"Pea Quinn" would be cute for invitations to a kid's birthday party, wouldn't it?





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I really like that "Pea Lovey Dovey" is swirly but not stuffy... it's whimsical!





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"Pea Nic Script" is a good every-day font... it's like, I am in a hurry because I am a busy person, but I am never too busy to look chic. I like it.





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Isn't this a cool idea? How would you use a font of your handwriting? For those of us not blessed with remarkable handwriting, it's kind of nice to be able to find fonts that look like handwriting, except cooler than our own. But doesn't it seem weird that--if your handwriting was converted to a font--a person could download your handwriting and use it for their own purposes?


p.s. For those of you who may not have any experience adding new fonts to your computer's basic repertoire (e.g., Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, etc.), you can do so by simply downloading an electronic file to your computer, and then complete a couple of additional steps to "add" the font file to your word processing program. This website provides some guidance for Microsoft Word users. You can also buy software with font "libraries," but there are many available for free online if you just search around a bit.