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Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
75•rendx•2h ago

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jruohonen•1h ago
The idea is cool, but, well:

"No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."

wongarsu•1h ago
sound great
phoronixrly•1h ago
Are you implying that the lack of data harvesting is a disadvantage?
codetiger•1h ago
It not a disadvantage but a rare trait nowadays.
iberator•1h 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

Wowfunhappy•47m ago
Your post makes it sound like you consider this a bad thing?
vaylian•1h 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?
Thomashuet•1h ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
Daneel_•1h ago
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
tazjin•57m 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.
BoredPositron•54m ago
It's more cultural than generational.
psychoslave•42m 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•20m 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•31m ago
Still taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper
guenthert•16m ago
Makes me wonder whether there are diction tests (I feared/hated those with a passion) in the USA?
zimpenfish•1h 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.

nacozarina•1h ago
new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !
Fnoord•32m ago
I hereby declare I''ll be unfit for school next Friday due to an illness.

Signed, Mom

ghrl•59m 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.

mittermayr•57m 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?

psychoslave•47m 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.

world2vec•29m ago
Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D
ixvo•11m ago
Only applicable for retarded countries where people don't write in cursive
feverzsj•11m ago
That'll be the ugliest font.
ixvo•11m ago
This works mostly for the US, where people don't write in cursive.
himata4113•4m ago
Text encryption, I like it!
micw•4m ago
Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?

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