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fonts to model your penmanship after

#1
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?)
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#2
Here's an old thread on handwritten fonts:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...6#pid33616
Check out the YOz one (nice for Japanese, bad for alpha characters)

There's also HGPKyokashotai if you want something in between.

You can change the font on this site's SRS with a greasemonkey script.
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#3
oh, sorry... i searched but didn't notice there was a thread on this already :S
thanks thora!
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