{"id":948,"date":"2023-10-09T21:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2023-11-15T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:23:31","slug":"i-accidentally-became-a-font-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/09\/i-accidentally-became-a-font-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"I accidentally became a font designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never watched Lost in Space, but it had a couple of awesome themes. I really like the Season 3 opening:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lost in Space Intro (Season 3)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/agDrg4Rm3yU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be fun to remake it new people, but I didn&#8217;t want to hand-draw the titles to match the style of the original text. I looked for a font that was close enough to fake it, but I didn&#8217;t find anything I liked. So I did the only sensible thing: I made my own font.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text.png\" alt=\"Danger, Will Robinson!\" width=\"1495\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text.png 1495w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/sample-text-1200x642.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1495px) 100vw, 1495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I was making it I realized it still wasn&#8217;t quite right, but I liked it enough to &#8220;finish&#8221; it. It&#8217;s not a complete font. It&#8217;s all caps (except that pesky lowercase i), and it has numbers and a lot of common symbols and punctuation, but nothing fancy.\u00a0I&#8217;m still going to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I also thought I&#8217;d share it. It&#8217;s free, and a bargain at twice the price!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1lJKaHvULJaeV2gtltI6PDWTo42dLdAGU\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1lJKaHvULJaeV2gtltI6PDWTo42dLdAGU\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:58,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/drive.google.com\\\/file\\\/d\\\/1lJKaHvULJaeV2gtltI6PDWTo42dLdAGU\\\/view?usp=sharing&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251102130158\\\/https:\\\/\\\/drive.google.com\\\/file\\\/d\\\/1lJKaHvULJaeV2gtltI6PDWTo42dLdAGU\\\/view?usp=sharing&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 08:31:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 11:40:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 12:27:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:43:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 20:16:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-11 08:44:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-11 08:44:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never watched Lost in Space, but it had a couple of awesome themes. I really like the Season 3 opening: I thought it would be fun to remake it new people, but I didn&#8217;t want to hand-draw the titles to match the style of the original text. 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