Finally! After a couple of weeks of drawing characters (albeit in a rather lazy way) in February and March, and programming font features for the past couple of weeks, I decided to upload my Tahano Hikamu font to Github: https://github.com/carbeck/tagatibookg.
There’s still some things to improve, but for the most part, the font works now. Please be aware that this font uses Graphite and that not so many applications support that. Also, note that in order to use Graphite in Firefox 11+, you will need to activate it first.
The Github repository contains all files used in the making of the font so you can easily clone/download it. But if you really just want the font, you probably want to just
For some extra fun, here’s basically how I made it: See the video on Youtube
Post scriptum
- I had the ZIP file in my Dropbox ‘Public’ folder, however, Dropbox dropped support for the Public folder a while ago, so the link was broken. I fixed it now. (2017-10-17)
- Please note that you likely can’t use this font on your phone or tablet, unless it supports installing and setting custom TTF fonts, which at least both my own Android phone and tablet don’t allow. Also note that some (laser) printers don’t like some of the characters in the font and will weirdly warp them. I’m not an expert enough to know why that is and how to fix it. (2024-06-25)