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Send Text Messages In Your Own Handwriting

by Christine Whitney on June 12, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Holy shoes! Korean telecommunications company KTF has come up with a new SMS that allows users to send text messages in their own handwriting. The service has been dubbed 'Font of Your Own,' a name evocative of both that Madonna baseball movie and Virginia Woolf.

Teen girls Users create their font by downloading a few applications and following a series of instructions, which apparently involve a submitting a "mobile photograph of 33 handwritten letters."

This is kind of a cute idea -- "handwritten" texts may have a more personal feel than the austere, Times New Roman standard. Font of their Own could be fun for those with nice penmanship, but, that said, we'll be sticking with the traditional, pre-fab fonts. If, like us, you've been accused of writing like a seven-year-old boy, you might not need a Font of Your Own either. [Source: Telecoms Korea via Textually]

Tags: sms technology, TextMessage

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