My hand writing is so bad I don't know if a really want a font out of it lol (love the project though!)
ghrl 1 hours ago [-]
There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.
Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.
xmattx 6 minutes ago [-]
Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.
world2vec 45 minutes ago [-]
Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D
zimpenfish 2 hours ago [-]
I've used iFontMaker for this on the iPad - quite amusing to be able to select my own monospaced font for terminals (even if it is just "old man traced over Courier Prime badly".)
Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.
easton 13 minutes ago [-]
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time.
micw 20 minutes ago [-]
Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
roughE 8 minutes ago [-]
Asking the right questions
psychoslave 1 hours ago [-]
Not sure it would work in my case. I do love to take the very different freedom it brings. For example the mid bars of a t is often taken as an opportunity to go through above the whole word. But I wouldn't do it every single time, as it would feel too much overload.
I also don't write the same way on a post it ready to throw than in my little personal aphorism book, where I try to craft something where the form connects with the intended meaning.
Thomashuet 2 hours ago [-]
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
Daneel_ 1 hours ago [-]
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
psychoslave 59 minutes ago [-]
That's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script.
I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.
guenthert 37 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, no idea how print became handwriting and handwriting longhand/cursive, but that's how it is and has been for decades in the USA.
Angostura 48 minutes ago [-]
Still taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper
guenthert 33 minutes ago [-]
Makes me wonder whether there are diction tests (I feared/hated those with a passion) in the USA?
tazjin 1 hours ago [-]
It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.
antonyh 42 minutes ago [-]
Conversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.
BoredPositron 1 hours ago [-]
It's more cultural than generational.
catoc 18 minutes ago [-]
A wise doctor once typed…
himata4113 21 minutes ago [-]
Text encryption, I like it!
vaylian 2 hours ago [-]
The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?
feverzsj 28 minutes ago [-]
That'll be the ugliest font.
mittermayr 1 hours ago [-]
Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?
Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?
ixvo 27 minutes ago [-]
This works mostly for the US, where people don't write in cursive.
jruohonen 2 hours ago [-]
The idea is cool, but, well:
"No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."
Wowfunhappy 1 hours ago [-]
Your post makes it sound like you consider this a bad thing?
catoc 12 minutes ago [-]
I don’t see the downside here.
If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?
phoronixrly 2 hours ago [-]
Are you implying that the lack of data harvesting is a disadvantage?
codetiger 2 hours ago [-]
It not a disadvantage but a rare trait nowadays.
wongarsu 2 hours ago [-]
sound great
iberator 2 hours ago [-]
well makes sense if JavaScript is run 100% locally.
Browser can be treated as loader of code to be executed only locally with Local only data.
i hate js, but it's doable
ixvo 28 minutes ago [-]
Only applicable for retarded countries where people don't write in cursive
nacozarina 1 hours ago [-]
new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !
Fnoord 49 minutes ago [-]
I hereby declare I''ll be unfit for school next Friday due to an illness.
Signed,
Mom
4ndr3vv 13 minutes ago [-]
I HEREBY DECLARE I' LL BE UNFIT FOR SCHOOL NE XT FRIDAY DUE TO AN ILLnESS .
S I G N E D , M O M
Rendered at 12:11:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.
Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.
I also don't write the same way on a post it ready to throw than in my little personal aphorism book, where I try to craft something where the form connects with the intended meaning.
I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.
Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?
"No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."
If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?
Browser can be treated as loader of code to be executed only locally with Local only data.
i hate js, but it's doable
Signed, Mom
S I G N E D , M O M