FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real 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.

She encoded her handwriting as paths in JS (rather than as a font): https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...

It's worth noting that it's only at the end that it turns out you have 3 options for using the rows (you can't say use row 1&2 caps but row 3 lowercase)

For whatever reason it really struggled to detect the cross hairs. It thought the top right cross hair was the O.

I had intensely compress the black white range to make it detect at all.

What should it look like btw?

Also even though it detected A thru F great it kind of fell to pieces down the page suggesting that the registration isn't good enough to detect each block. Maybe let people mark the cross hairs manually?

More registration marks and ones that are more distinct than cross hairs would likely help. I used a high quality scan! So registration should have been muche asier than a photo.

I don't really know what's wrong!

But something about the way the app applied the threshold on the scanned image, made the letters really broken. Maybe having a thicker pen would be the solution.

I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.

Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.

It was the first touchscreen I'd ever owned, and ran a special Tablet edition of XP. If I recall, it came with something similar to Microsoft Font Maker. On a roadtrip, a friend of mine scrawled in all the letters and presto, we had a new handwritten font.

The script looked kind of like a kid's handwriting. Over the years I used it (with permission) in various PDF's and doc files, mainly when I was showcasing how to fill in a form. It lent a nice, obvious distinction between the phrases that were part of the form template, and the portions that had been "handwritten" in. The last time I used it was to train volunteer firefighters how to fill in certain medical paperwork and equipment inspection logs.

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.

It's nice to see it pop up in so many places!

Now I have little snippets of history and unique handwriting, albeit simplistic and imperfect, that remind me of my loved ones passed in a unique way.

My drafting lettering is OK. But it's much, much slower & requires a straightedge, multiple thickness pencils, an eraser shield, and an eraser.

My current one I don't like it as much as the one I used to have. That old one would turn into a font and feel cool.

Thanks for picking this up! More to come. I'm working on adding color support right now.

https://handofyou.app

But I would have loved to use this to capture my kid's kindergarten handwriting. Maybe I still have a sample around here...

Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

It’s your handwriting, why be so judgemental after all?

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