The Short Stack font seems to suit most of my purposes. (although the
letter J does not have the horizontal stroke)

Tim, you are my hero. I found it by googling "educational font".

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Short+Stack

For those who are looking for a regular font for kids to copy and
learn, have a look. Thanks, Tim. :)

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 18:31 +0800, Orange Paranoid wrote:
>> editing a font seems a daunting task. I will see if I have the time.
>
> Way back in the dim and distant past, when all computers only did bitmap
> fonts, I'd created my own fonts quite a few time.  Mind you, this was at
> dot matrix printer resolutions, so it wasn't too hard to do.  And it was
> how I learnt to convert between binary and hex, in my head, from all the
> font programming.
>
>> My idea is that no font is right for me. How could that happen in the
>> 21st century? My descriptions in the video are valid for the kids I
>> have taught.
>
> I know what you mean.  I find the same problems with most fonts, and
> mostly want what you wanted in the font design.  And, as I said before,
> look at some programmer's fonts.  They have I that you can easily tell
> apart from l, t versus f, etc.  You might have to look around a bit to
> find one that doesn't give a slashed computer zero, though.
>
> Alternatively, have you tried just searching for educational font?  Just
> type it into google, and have a look.  There'll be a free one,
> somewhere.
>
>
> --
> tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
>
> Linux 3.16.2-201.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Sep 15 20:21:12 UTC 2014 i686
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
> to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
>
> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
>
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