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Making a font of my handwriting

https://chameth.com/making-a-font-of-my-handwriting/
41•kickofline•2h ago

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al_borland•1h ago
There used to be a form to fill out in Sky Mall to be able to do this through some service. Back in the days where you would fill it out by hand and mail your handwriting to them.
pavel_lishin•1h ago
I wonder if there's any way to transform this approach taken by Amy Goodchild into actual font files: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
Gualdrapo•14m ago
I'd bet it would be matter of "translating" those Chaikin's paths to Bézier. Then you could generate Metafont fonts from that, and from that you could get ttf, otf and whatnot.
nartho•37m ago
>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive

The font created is print, not cursive.

wjrb•6m ago
Maybe cursive in a "Comic Sans in the default 'cursive' fallback font on Windows" kind of way.
jlev•28m ago
I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial cringe ahead)
aswinmohanme•14m ago
warmed my heart, wishing you a great life together
mdorazio•5m ago
For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw

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