How is pencil effect achieved?

Eimantas Paškonis

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hanoded/crayon-en-folie/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/joebob/caput/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/my-creative-land/palomino/
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/posterizer-kg/workshop-pencil/

- Drawn by hand, scanned, traced and then imported as vectors?
- Or just vectors ran through roughen filter? 

Ramiro Espinoza

First option

AbiRasheed

Yeah I think it was livetraced based off an original crayon drawing and then roughen or tweak was used.

David Kerkhoff

Crayon en Folie was made using an actual pencil. I wrote out all the glyphs, then scanned the document and vectorised it using Fontlab Studio. Fontlab Studio is better at complex fonts like Crayon en Folie, with a lot of nodes. I have Glyphs now, but creating these kinds of fonts is a pain in the behind in Glyphs, so I am not making them any longer.

Igor Petrovic

Is Illustrator trace good for this task vs FontLab?

Jacques Le Bailly

I used Photoshop a few times for this, since you can refine the selection more precise