When I was little I always admired my mom’s handwriting, it was the perfect combination of elegant and readable. I’ve also had the desire to make a typeface by myself. So, I decided to make a typeface based on my mom’s handwriting. It is also meant as a tribute to my mom, and so she’ll live on forever. This typeface is based on letters and other written notes I found and collected that were made by my mom. I studied other handwritten typefaces so I knew how other typefaces were made and applied this to my typeface. I put together the typeface in a program “birdfont” but first made the outlines and sketches in Illustrator. The typeface has the name IrmaHandwritten, because my mom was called Irma and it’s a handwritten typeface.
To show how the font could be used I also made a few cards with it. The typeface is very well fit for cards and other media expressions that look like they were written.
The illustrations of the cards are also made by me and based on thing that remind me of my mom, such as eating cake in the center of the town I grew up in, my birthday’s my mom always used to plan and I got my first roller skates from her.
