dots AND lines

Think about this idea. Having a tool or application that can render your font type to mimic your handwriting whenever you type. Nothing like the usage of normal HANDWRITTEN style fonts, this tools can create a result that have the users strokes in their text differently, same letters be written differently, etc… Furthermore, any user now can create their own typeface out of their handwriting and now fonts do come with colours as well!

This is what FONTSELF is about.

“FONTSELF is a type project about handwriting and drawn writing. It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.). FONTSELF proposes intuitive tools to create and edit bitmap font (scanned letters) as well as solutions to use them and exchange them.”

Visit here to learn more and their online demo.

My Illustrator recently gave me a headache when it suddenly does not capture the fonts installed in my PC after I repair my Windows XP Pro. The fonts did appear in top menu but not in the Character pallette. It had me searching few days for solution.

And I found it. It only solves partially though because the Chinese, Japanese and Korean character type are still not in the list. But it still good enough.

Here is the solution. Go install Adobe Reader. It helps. Somehow, it will reinstall/repair some of the necessary Adobe system files into your PC and fixed it as well. I am not sure if installing other Adobe applications will do a better job, but can try.

Else, maybe just format the PC and reinstall Windows follow by Illustrator. Start clean. Haha!

Had bought Wacom recently and manage to test it out by doing a poster for a society. They want it in grayscale and red. Here’s the image. The image is rejected though. *sob!*

I have switched job recently to another company called MOR(F) Dynamics. An Australian-based company who strive for “Fusing Grammer with Geometry”. Well, they are the designers for Artificial Intelligence for commercial applications.

At the moment, we are handling a project, which is extremely cool, MojiKan.com! A project of Intelligent Messenger that comes with virtual pets to chat with you, if you are not already chatting with your friends, online. These pets are built with AI shell to capture and learn our human language, analyse their owner and will eventually become good or bad depending on their owner. “Like father, like son.”

The messenger supports conversation with other IM like Yahoo!, MSN, GTalk and AOL. Frankly speaking, it is still a bit bugy at the moment but as far as I am concern, the IM works just like an IM.

Also around is the website for it, of course, which is proudly designed by me! Click here to visit MojiKan.com! This site, aside from functioning as the marketing purposes of the project, also works like any other online community sites like Friendsters or MySpace. You can also buy stuff here to pamper your pets to love you more using the MojiKan currency, MK$.

To know more of this cool project, do visit the site. We are also going to have launch this August 11th, 2007 at The Street in The Curve. Come and join us!