Several ways of turning your handwriting into a font.
Buy/Make online:
Your Fonts Free and all done online.
Fontifier Also done online, but for $9.
Acro Type Another online place, for $10.
Quantum Enterprises Costs $15 but takes a few days.
Font Garden Costs $40, and also takes a few days.
Software:
TypeTool (by the makers of FontLab); with a student discount it is only $54.
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