I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
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@ChrisPirillo first thought, if it's local, use a different word than "upload".
That's bound to cause confusion - either in your app, or elsewhere by normalising the idea of there not really being a distinction.
Not sure what else to suggest, but perhaps "provide" or "select" or "copy"
@uep that's a good detail to sweat. Let me think about that.
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@jennifer javascript, primarily. Unless that was a more specific question? I can give you more full technical details, certainly. I mean, you download the template, fill it out, pass the image back to the app, process it there, download. Maybe I don't understand the question?
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I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo Nice!! Thank you!
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@ChrisPirillo Nice!! Thank you!
@MyYeeHaa let me know!
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@jennifer What it... does? I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I genuinely don't understand *specifically* what you're asking.
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@ChrisPirillo first thought, if it's local, use a different word than "upload".
That's bound to cause confusion - either in your app, or elsewhere by normalising the idea of there not really being a distinction.
Not sure what else to suggest, but perhaps "provide" or "select" or "copy"
@uep made some adjustments. Clarified.
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@jennifer the thing it was designed to do? lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@mason @jennifer seems like the #ai and #vibecoding hashtags were a dead giveaway? Nothing gets by you.
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I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo Love it! But I'm german and need Ää, Öö, Üü and ß
Will you add them to your template? that would be incredible!
(Maybe the scandinavian types as well: Åå, Œœ, ooops, now I think of polish types …)
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@ChrisPirillo Love it! But I'm german and need Ää, Öö, Üü and ß
Will you add them to your template? that would be incredible!
(Maybe the scandinavian types as well: Åå, Œœ, ooops, now I think of polish types …)@exil_inselette it creates a lot of those characters automatically.
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@exil_inselette it creates a lot of those characters automatically.
@ChrisPirillo oh, wow!
Edit: No, it does not.
I'm sorry for being so critical, but your tool is so great/works great, I'd love to use it, but I need the correct character set, otherwise I can't use it *cries loudly* -
I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo Sorry, another Question: It only creates capital letters?
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@ChrisPirillo Sorry, another Question: It only creates capital letters?
🥺@exil_inselette it creates whatever you draw.
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@exil_inselette it creates whatever you draw.
@ChrisPirillo I understand. But I need upper and lower case letters in one font, because in German the first letter of many words is capitalized. But as I understand the template, I have to enter three identical letters?
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@ChrisPirillo I understand. But I need upper and lower case letters in one font, because in German the first letter of many words is capitalized. But as I understand the template, I have to enter three identical letters?
@exil_inselette you can choose which character you want for each row. You could do uppercase in the first row, lowercase in the second row.
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@ChrisPirillo If it's 100% local, why have it in the browser at all? Also, uploading a scan of my handwriting to a server I don't know or control sounds risky as hell.
@eighthourlunch @ChrisPirillo as a developer you need to codesign the binaries and that costs something.
Apple developer account costs 100usd per year.
For Microsoft you need to get extended validation certificate, which costs like 250Usd per year.That could be one reason.
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I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo does the template have to be that size or will A4 paper work ok?
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I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo now, if only people could read my handwriting i could use this
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I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done! -
I just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
Turn your handwriting into an installable font — free, no account, no uploads. Works on every platform and the web. Print, write, scan, download.
Chris Pirillo's Arcade (arcade.pirillo.com)
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo I've tried it now. It's really great! But there's one thing I really miss: correct quotation marks. In German, we do them like „this“: a small 66 at the bottom front, a small 99 at the back (not actual numbers, of course, but the numbers illustrate where they are thick and how they are curved).
Edit: I tried entering them as alternatives to " but I can't get them to work on the keyboard
