Topic: the right font for this...

[Nikolas]

Well,

I have a music work, which is hand written. The composer is not able to replicate this, so I'm stuck with what I have. I cleaned up the graphics (thanks to you people), but now I'm stuck with another issue.

check the following two images. The first is the instructions and the second the first page of the score.

www.nikolas-sideris.com/EMF/strofes1.jpg
and
www.nikolas-sideris.com/EMF/strofes2.jpg

My problem is that the instructions (as is obvious) are written in Greek and I need to translate it in English. I've done so and everything is fine, but I can't replicate the font that this guy is using (because it's hand written and not a font).

So, my question:

I can either use some Palatino font and get it over with, but I don't particularly like that (considering the score will be hand written), or
I can find a way to extract the letters from the score and use them to create my own font (too time consuming), or
I can find another font to use and copy the current instructions text, and the new into new formating.

So which one, how and why and YIKES!

I found these: http://www.fonts.gr/en/fonts/designer/Fotinos+Vlassis/Painter+CF/Painter%20CF%20Bold (but they are only Greek I think), and I don't really like them. Too apart from the original.

So do you have any ideas, please?

[Anian]

Yeah, making your own font is relatively a long process of tinkering that will take you probably 2-3 days to have everything just right and to set up all the kerning etc. (there is stuff like this http://www.myscriptfont.com/ you fill out a template with letters, scan it and then they make your font automatically).

Google for type of "what font is this" software, so you can find something that you might like that's similar to that handwritten font, basically you use the iamge of the font and the software finds a similar one:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/7-free-tools-to-identify-a-font/
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.whatfontis.com/
there's probably more out there. Then see if there's a free font (you'll probably have to contact the maker either way because you're selling the product, but it still shouldn't be that expensive).
Problem might be that the original is just greek letters, but you'll probably still be able to find something similar.

[Nikolas]

Thanks Anian.

That helped quite a bit. I've still haven't found a font that suites it, but it's worth spending more than 15 minutes!

[Ghost]

Not a tool to identify a font, but a large library of fonts- maybe they have something you like? The "Handwritten" section is probably your best bet.

http://www.1001fonts.com/

[Frito Master]

Use dafont.com

[Nikolas]

Thanks guys. You're awesome!

New problem now... All of the fonts in 1001fonts are only in English, which doesn't allow me to do the Greek part as well... I'll have to sort it out with a normal font I think...

[Tabata]

You might want to take a look at all the free fonts from google over here. There are a lot of greek fonts avaliable, too ...  good luck!

[Eric]

It reminds me of the writing style used to letter the dialogue balloons in Tintin. Here's a font based on that: http://fontzone.net/font-details/tintin/

You might run into troubles with it being slightly italicized though.