I am Matthew Eagles, I am someone who believes himself to have very neat handwriting ... and here is the font! The letters have been neatened and made with a thicker weight, but the result is still comparable with my own handwriting. Despite coming top of the class at primary school in joined-up writing, I've always preferred to print my letters, and prefer to see fonts that are easy to read. One of my favourite fonts is Gill Sans, and perhaps some elements of that come through in my handwriting, but the resulting style of the “Matthew” font all looks original, I'm glad to say. I see it as a Sans Serif font with quirky appeal.

There are two features that distinguish this font from others: firstly, it has accented Russian letters (with stress marks) as well as the standard Russian alphabet - which is useful for anyone who is learning Russian. Secondly, there are ‘cloud cover’ symbols as used in meteorology, which I could not find in any other font. Because even Unicode does not have any specific codes for these symbols, I've had to put them in where I could, using relatively obscure Unicode characters (sadly, my font editor does not allow access to the ‘private use’ character codes). I hope that users of my font feel that my choices of character codes are reasonable.

I feel that my font is suitable as a general-purpose font, although it would be interesting to hear any feedback on how it is actually employed by users. I'd like to thank MyFonts for giving me the opportunity to sell my handiwork, and to you for reading this far ... enjoy!