The Master's Handwriting

Do you ever have that feeling when you're listening to an album at that perfect time, where you feel a sense of ultimate gratitude - to the band, but even beyond that to the musicians who influenced that band, and beyond that all the people who have helped shape the human fabric that made the band and the situation in which you're listening to it possible?  With this crushing sense of gratitude comes the longing to give something back, back to the band, back to the world.  Well, this week it feels like I'm doing that - and it feels good.  I've been obsessed for the last two weeks: scanning Joyce manuscript images, looking for his old letters, comparing twelve different lowercase "e"s, and tweaking contours on my laptop.  The result is a font that imitates James Joyce's handwriting that is as good as I can make it.   A few notes on the font here:

• It's free, please pass it along to anyone who you think might enjoy it!
• Joyce's handwriting transforms greatly from his youth to his twilight years, I've tried to find a middle of the road style.
• I've included as much of his Sigla for Finnegans Wake as I could find/create.  Look in the insert symbols section to find these and some of his hand drawings.
• Some letters are not gorgeous; (the lowercase "q" for example) but the letters are how he wrote them, some aren't standard
• Some letters were impossible to find and others were on documents with a great deal of visual noise, with these I tried to replicate his style as best I could.

Right click on the link below, chose "Save Link As" and save the font to your desktop (or other preferred save destination).  Find your "Fonts" folder - this is usually found by going to "My Computer" then the C drive then into the "Windows" folder.  On some computers you'll have to tell the "Windows" folder to show its contents.  Then just drag the new font into the fonts folder and it will be available when you open your word processor.  Feel free to e-mail me if this doesn't work.  On the Macintosh under OS X, with the Finder, open your boot volume (typically called "Macintosh HD") then open the Library folder, then the Fonts folder. Drag the downloaded file from your desktop into the Fonts folder.

Also, if there are Sigla that are absent that would be useful to you, please let me know what they are and I'll try to add them.  Enjoy!

Check the recommendations section for an Mp3 of James Joyce reading an excerpt from the Wake.