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Re:Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's by Uehreka on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:28PM (#22360587)
The author talks about using this font to preserve their mother’s handwriting as her Parkinson’s progresses. That’s a really sweet and thoughtful use of technology to help someone cope with a really awful illness.

But outside of that usage, I can’t think of a tasteful way to use this font. I’m sure some folks may buy the font to help support the cause though, and that’s cool.

Re:Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's by tartoran on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:09PM (#22360908)
It is a very useful tool to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease. If you don't have an use simply don't use.
Re:Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's by mbreese on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:28PM (#22361074)
If you were concerned about losing your handwriting (if you were say - recently diagnosed with Parkinson's), you might want to have a font made that uses your own handwriting so that you could continue to write with your own style. I think this was one of the primary uses that was envisioned... not necessarily preserving a loved one's handwriting as an archive, but for the affected individual to use day to day.

It's not just about the publicly available font (which is a great tool for awareness), but also the service to capture someone's handwriting as a font.

Re:Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's by thatsethnz on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:26PM (#22361896)
My Dad has Parkinson's and this is exactly how I intend on using it. Helping him get his papers in order, his recipes together while still making it look and feel _from him_.
Re:Shake.ttf: A Typeface with Parkinson's by staticautomatic on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:49PM (#22360750)
That's ok. Not everything needs to be tasteful.