{"id":561,"date":"2025-10-10T17:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidcali.co\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:59:45","slug":"bt-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidcali.co\/blog\/bt-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"BT Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes, during my free time, I want to do all the things, all at the same time. Depending on the state of my executive functioning skills, I might read a book, or clean the house, or get lost in a wikipedia rabbithole, or doomscroll (though I\u2019m getting better about not doing that), or watch a movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, maybe, I’ll do something creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, I\u2019ve been making quick hand drawn fonts in this iPad app called Fontself<\/a>. This is a font I call BT Carbon<\/em>, it\u2019s based on an old typeface called Bulletin Typewriter (hence \u2018BT\u2019<\/em>) that I found in an old Letraset<\/a> handbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BT Carbon<\/em> is fast and imperfect, which I think works well and makes it look even more like a typewriter because of its inconsistencies. Some letters look oversaturated in ink, others less so. I\u2019m thinking I might make a bunch of alternates for each letter and figure out how to randomize them so there\u2019s some variation in the glyphs. From what I can tell it should be doable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a creative person in the modern world it can be easy to get lost in the data overwhelm which only seems to be exponentially increasing. I mean how many shows are there on Netflix alone? That being said, I think all humans are creative beings, and there is a lot of satisfaction that comes with making something yourself, even when it might be a lot easier to have it generated by AI. It\u2019s definitely a lot easier to just not do it. But honestly, I don\u2019t know where I would be without my creative habits, I feel like they keep me sane. Although sometimes I have some weird urge to create something massive, sometimes the best thing I can do in the current moment is to just find inspiration in the small things. It is very gratifying to even make something simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway I hope this inspires you to make something soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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