I've always wanted to make my own font but two things kept holding me back. My handwriting would make one messy font and the complicated bit between having the idea and actually doing it. So it took a vague notion one moonlit evening to get the ball rolling at last.

I had been using the low light setting on my digital camera for a while. Depending on the available light it will give you a shutter delay of up to 3 seconds. I've used this for interesting effects and pretty fades example1 example 2 example3

So sitting by the lake one fullmoon enhanced evening I began capturing each letter of the alphabet by tracing its outline with the camera. Refering to FIGURE 1, the shutter is opened at point 1 and the camera is manoeuvred up down left or right as desired (a spiral in this example) until the shutter closes at point 2.
 
 
You are then left with a light trail that hopefully resembles the letter you were after.
FIGURE 2 shows the results for 'C'. (The additional trails are from the surface of the lake and a house light on the other shore).
Positive Image
Figure2  
Reverse the image (FIGURE 3) and isolate the 'C' shape with Photoshops clever magic wand tool, pasting it as a new image on its own (FIGURE 4)
Negative Image  
Figure3   Figure4

Capture all 26 letters plus whatever other punctuation comes to mind. You are then left with 26+ images which can then be loaded into a font creation program. I downloaded mine from High-Logic Follow the simple instructions and tweak to your hearts desire and you should find yourself with a font that you can use in almost all software applications (Word, Excel, Photoshop etc).
Click to enlarge each letter Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C A
Please feel free to download the Fullmoon Alphabet here.
Save it to your computer and install it in your Windows font directory. Happy typing!		 Click Here
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