are there any good (read: beautiful) japanese hand-written fonts?
i've been looking for something to model my own penmanship after (in other words, something to copy over and over until my own kanji and kana look like it), but with little to no luck. everything i come across looks too... font-ish? haven't found anything that looks like actual penmanship and not like a font that's been worked and tweaked for hundreds of hours on a computer until every character looks perfect, drawing the life out of it in the process. </rant>
so, i guess the question is, if you could make your japanese penmanship look exactly like a font, which font would it be?
(i know, i know... "don't copy, develop your own style, etc., etc..." well, we all need to start somewhere, might as well start with something worth the trouble, right?)
i've been looking for something to model my own penmanship after (in other words, something to copy over and over until my own kanji and kana look like it), but with little to no luck. everything i come across looks too... font-ish? haven't found anything that looks like actual penmanship and not like a font that's been worked and tweaked for hundreds of hours on a computer until every character looks perfect, drawing the life out of it in the process. </rant>
so, i guess the question is, if you could make your japanese penmanship look exactly like a font, which font would it be?
(i know, i know... "don't copy, develop your own style, etc., etc..." well, we all need to start somewhere, might as well start with something worth the trouble, right?)
