[tobr]

Looks like a fun project. I would love to get into pen plotting someday.

Have to say the text bothers and intrigues me… digital fonts that try to look like handwriting are already in the uncanny valley, and then you loop it back into physical media with a pen plotter. It could almost be an art project in its own right, exploring layers of going back and forth between physical and digital media to produce a seemingly mundane paper with some writing on it.

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I remember once seeing a presentation about someone making extensive use of ligatures to create a very realistic hand writing effect. I think it was that an "e", for example, would always look different depending on the preceding letter, even though it was not a real ligature case per say. It's a huge amount of work but I remember the results being very convincing.

[tobr]

Amy Goodchild has done some incredible work in this vein, involving pen plotters even. https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...

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I'm not sure it was her but this is brilliant anyways. Thank you for sharing the link!

[stankot]

This is awesome! I’ve seen it but forgot to bookmark it, thanks for sharing it again.

[stankot]

For me, pen plotting is a lot of fun. There is something so satisfying in bringing digital work to the physical world.

As for the text, I have it on my todo list to create a few single line fonts, for some time now. The obvious one is my own handwriting, ideally with some randomness built in. I would like others to be less conventional to sprinkle them in my drawings, or like you mentioned, to create some pieces that are text only.