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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump's Crazy Handwriting Is Now A Free Font Called Tiny Hand
Tiny Hand could be the hucksters Helvetica.BY JOHN BROWNLEE
Although hes known for his incessant tweeting, an interesting fact about Donald Trump is that he doesnt really use computers outside of his iPhone. Although he aspires to lead the most technologically progressive nation on Earth, the Republican presidential hopeful has admitted he didnt own a computer until 2007. Heck, the only proof he has ever used a computer is this photo of him sitting in front of a Mac from July and even then, Trump looks like hes going to try to prod the screen with one of his granule-sized fingers.
But thats not to say that Trump doesnt read whats written about him on the internet. He does. His assistants laboriously print out articles on him, like this one from Vanity Fair, which he then covers in crazily scrawled editorial notes, such as BAD WRITER!, BAD PICTURE (NO SURPRISE) and OH REALLY!
For a recent satirical article, which purported itself to be Trumps own handwritten notes from the second debate, BuzzFeed decided to go the extra yard and task Mark Davis, a graphic designer at BuzzFeed and Font Bureau, to recreate The Donalds handwriting as a custom font, which its calling Tiny Hand. Even better? Its now available for free download here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/irvgp4813izfbso/BFTinyHand-Regular.zip
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jameshannaham/an-exclusive-and-completely-factual-snapshot-of-donald-trump
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https://www.fastcompany.com/3064790/donald-trumps-crazy-handwriting-is-now-a-free-font-called-tiny-hand
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Donald Trump's Crazy Handwriting Is Now A Free Font Called Tiny Hand (Original Post)
catbyte
Nov 2019
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tblue37
(65,488 posts)1. K&R. nt
Kid Berwyn
(14,955 posts)2. Tiny Hand for Traitors
Link to tweet
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Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)7. I wonder how long he has needed such disturbingly simplistic prompts.
Kid Berwyn
(14,955 posts)8. A long time, I'd wager, based on his intellectual pursuits.
Trump is a moron fixated by fabric swatches.
Trump, the billion-dollar loser I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen
Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019
EXCERPT...
I tend to see my time with him the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry as his King Midas period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, The Art of the Deal, which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once hed held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.
A real go-getter, right? But Trumps portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his French military helicopter to Atlantic City where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasnt. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the rack rate (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldnt cover the monthly payment of the loan hed taken out to buy the place. In other words, hed made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didnt want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.
Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
Bet KGB staffer Putin slipped some MK Ultra juice into his sealed Perrier bottle on his first trip to Moscow in 1987.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
Trump, the billion-dollar loser I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen
Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019
EXCERPT...
I tend to see my time with him the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry as his King Midas period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, The Art of the Deal, which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once hed held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.
A real go-getter, right? But Trumps portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his French military helicopter to Atlantic City where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasnt. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the rack rate (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldnt cover the monthly payment of the loan hed taken out to buy the place. In other words, hed made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didnt want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.
Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
Bet KGB staffer Putin slipped some MK Ultra juice into his sealed Perrier bottle on his first trip to Moscow in 1987.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
klook
(12,166 posts)3. Aleppo--??
Who? Is he a Marx brother?
Roland99
(53,342 posts)4. AH HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)5. Needs to come with a free spellwrecker. nt
You beat me to the punch. In order to be effective, this font must take your correctly spelled words and randomly insert a random string of consonants and vowels.
dweller
(23,661 posts)6. oh perfect
So what does Tiny Hand, and by extension, Donalds Trumps handwriting look like? Like everything else about the GOP nominee, who in both head shape and hue closely resemble a citric Gushers advertising mascot sprung to life, it defies easy categorization. Imagine a sociopathic, sexually ravenous Walt Disney with hands the size of a GI Joe action figure, frantically etching away with a Sharpie Magnum, and youll have something of the feel of the font.
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wryter2000
(46,081 posts)10. Okay, I download it to Dropbox
How do I put it into Word so I can use it?