2010-11 Font beerwine

There's a great naive raw looking sign by a corner dairy just down the road. Take photos and make a font based on it. Call it beerwine.
I'd forgotten until a friend and myself walked passed it and he had his camera-phone handy . Here's a trimmed shot
So the task is to make a vector font from a photo of some lettering. I checked for tools to this so I could get together a process and this seems to be a reasonable approach :
gimp -> glyphtracer -> FontForge.

• Use gimp to make an image of a full alphabet and character set in the style of the characters in the image.
• Use glyphtracer to parse them into vector fonts.
• Use FontForge to gussy-up the result into a font usable on most PCs.

And here is an example created using GIMP. Open office , desktop themes, abiword all see the font and treat it properly. Cool.