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Logan Weston Hand Font Pilot

Status: Exploratory technical pilot; not approved visual canon
Register: Ordinary / academic handwriting after the 2025 collision, outside acute impairment
Author and project owner: Lily Walton
Font family: Logan Weston Hand
Current build: LoganWestonHand-Regular.ttf

What This Pilot Tests

This pilot tests whether Logan’s ordinary handwriting system can function as an installable, typeable font while preserving real underlying text. It does not approve the current visual letterforms, replace the full handwriting profile, or establish a legal signature, professional attestation, specialist score hand, private sign-off, or body-state variant.

The font uses Logan’s current exploratory feature family:

  • narrow, upright, print-dominant construction;
  • a nearly level baseline and compact word architecture;
  • a squared capital L and narrow four-stroke W;
  • a one-storey angular a, short open-descender g, clipped r, and high-crossed t;
  • differentiated 1, crossed 7, unslashed 0, dark decimal points, and clear colons;
  • brief th, er, and ing joins where connection saves motion;
  • contextual alternates for common letters so repeated forms do not reproduce mechanically.

Accessible Description

The typed hand forms narrow, upright units with more vertical travel than lateral spread. A fingertip tracing beneath a line would encounter a mostly level course. Ascenders rise clearly above the body, descenders remain restrained, and gaps between words are more pronounced than gaps between letters. The squared L ends in a short rightward foot. The W consists of four steep strokes whose internal meeting point remains low. The a closes into one angular storey; the g repeats that upper body before dropping into a short open hook. The r ends abruptly, and the t is crossed high. Numerals sit firmly on the baseline and remain distinct from nearby punctuation.

The OpenType substitutions introduce slight changes in width, angle, and height among common repeated letters. These variations are controlled enough that the line still behaves as a handoff document rather than decorative lettering.

Evidence and Design Status

Established

  • Logan’s lettering on Charlie’s medical binder is sharp and upright.
  • He builds color-coded, cross-indexed records intended for other people to retrieve and use.
  • Written reminders and structured notes compensate for working-memory and executive-function changes after his traumatic brain injury.
  • His academic and medical work requires legible values, punctuation, timing, and correction behavior.

Constrained inference

  • A print-dominant ordinary font with clear word boundaries and differentiated numerals follows from the established sharp upright lettering and retrieval-first documentation.
  • Common motion-saving joins can coexist with print dominance without converting the hand into cursive.
  • The baseline hand remains stable outside acute impairment; reduced capacity changes page architecture and amount written before it changes Logan into a different writer.

New visual and technical design for review

  • Exact construction of every glyph beyond the source profile’s anchor descriptions.
  • Crossed 7 in the ordinary font rather than only clinical contexts.
  • Two contextual alternates for nine frequent letters.
  • Automatic th, er, and ing joins.
  • Exact spacing, kerning, diacritics, and punctuation forms.

Provenance and Licensing

The earlier exploratory reference sheet used Microsoft’s Ink Free for its live source text before conversion to outlined SVG paths. Microsoft permits ordinary document and graphic output using Windows fonts, but its current font redistribution guidance does not permit end users to modify or convert those font files. This pilot therefore does not extract, decompose, copy, or convert Ink Free glyphs.

The pilot instead uses EMS Tech, bundled with Inkscape, as a modifiable stroke source. EMS Tech was created by Sheldon B. Michaels, converted to SVG font format by Windell H. Oskay, and derived from Kimberly Geswein’s Architects Daughter. The source is marked as licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This build uses a new family name, includes the OFL, preserves attribution, and remains under the OFL.

Logan-specific glyph anchors, proportions, alternates, joins, symbol coverage, font tables, specimen, and build process are new modifications for this project.

Files

  • LoganWestonHand-Regular.ttf — installable exploratory font.
  • Logan Weston Hand Specimen.html — accessible specimen using real HTML text.
  • Logan Weston Hand Specimen.png — visual review rendering generated from the TTF.
  • Logan Weston Hand Small-Size Test.png — 300-DPI review at 18, 14, and 10 points.
  • Logan Weston Hand Glyph Coverage.txt — mechanical coverage and feature summary.
  • build_logan_weston_hand.py — reproducible local build and validation script.
  • OFL.txt — governing font-software license.

Approval Boundaries

  • Written design: remains exploratory.
  • Visual glyph forms: remains exploratory.
  • Ordinary / academic font register: remains exploratory.
  • Font application to any in-world artifact: not approved.
  • Professional and legal signatures: excluded.
  • Private sign-off: excluded.
  • Clinical abbreviations beyond the specimen: not established.
  • Body-state and later-life variants: excluded.
  • Canon: no canon update authorized or made.

Exact Review Question

Does this font’s ordinary register feel like Logan’s hand: narrow, upright, physically certain, and built for retrieval? Approval of the pilot would apply only to the ordinary font’s reviewed feature family and glyph forms. It would not approve signatures, other registers, body-state variants, or canonization.