This project involves the creation of an informal handwritten font to be used for making comments on lecture slides. It is a handwritten font with good legibility and can be used for short notes or other purposes, as it has a complete set of characters, including some language support. In addition, Mansalva features two alternates for each letter to create a more natural handwritten look.
The original aim of this project was to create a handwritten font that can be used for notes and informal text. It started as an experiment during idle time and turned out as a script with a good flow, so I decided to develop the whole set.
I had a copy of FontSelf Maker that I always wanted to try, and it turned out to be an easy to use tool that will allow the creation of quick fonts and icons. So the beginning of this font was on FontSelf Maker with Adobe Illustrator. It’s easy to use, and I was surprised that provides many valuable features such as tracking and kerning tools.
Once the project was more advanced, I decided to move on to Glyphs. The final development of the font, refinement and alternates was developed using Glyphs.
Mansalva gets its name from the Spanish expression a mano salva which originally means “simply with your hand”. Nowadays, the expression a mansalva is used to mean abundance, close range, or without risk.
This font was created using a regular marker. I was planning to add more styles in the future, using different tools to make some other styles to match a light weight, but when I tried, the result didn’t look like a variant of Mansalva, so I decided to do a different font, MyNerve. It is still a work in progress; critique and comments are welcome.
MyNerve:(https://github.com/carolinashort/MyNerve/
Recent updates include 2 sets of alternates, 2 sets for numbers, fixes in kerning and additional language support, such as better designed Māori macrons and other Pasifika languages.
Para más información en castellano, ver el en directorio /documentation/Mansalva español ![Mansalva en castellano](https://github.com/carolinashort/mansalva/blob/master/documentation/_Mansalva%20espa%C3%B1ol_/