Anyhow.With a pencil, I draw two simple guidelines then I use my trusty Faber castell pens to draw the letters.The first drawing is normally quite bad. It's fun and creative-converting to a typeface is the real ball ache. I’ve come to realise that drawing all the letters is the enjoyable part. There is a natural beauty with old printed fonts that I love. The inspiration has come from the old American style fonts, cowboy films, seeing the remake of True Grit, printing presses, and woodblock typefacesI didn’t want a clean looking design, fonts don’t have to be all clean lines.I wanted something dirty.I wanted something messed up, distressed and with bags of character. I’m apologizing now for the amount of western puns that I'm about to inflict on you. This time I’ve gone all western on your ass. Howdy partner, Western Grit, a new hand-drawn font with a free version that you can download and try out.
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