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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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 Have you seen https://youtu.be/xsquXQHKtHE ?
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@dl2jml @ChrisPirillo @exil_inselette The Code to generate these is there. And as the code is also looking for calibration marks - have you tried printing on A4 paper?
I haven’t, as I didn’t find time yet, but please: You’re sounding extremely entitled to something you’ve been given for free. How about helping to debug?
E.g., „I tried printing in A4, I expected this to happen, but I got this result - could you pleas take a look?“
@exil_inselette @der_mit_ph @ChrisPirillo
Let me rephrase this.
1) I am thankful for the effort and I think it is a great idea.
2) I am only adding my voice that these features are important. That may help to prioritize what features are developed, should the developper want to further improve the software.
3) There is no obligation to the developper to do anything beyond what we already have.1/2
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@exil_inselette @der_mit_ph @ChrisPirillo
Let me rephrase this.
1) I am thankful for the effort and I think it is a great idea.
2) I am only adding my voice that these features are important. That may help to prioritize what features are developed, should the developper want to further improve the software.
3) There is no obligation to the developper to do anything beyond what we already have.1/2
@der_mit_ph @ChrisPirillo @exil_inselette
Now to your question about A4 paper. There is no print function for that paper in the web page. It is downloaded as a pdf and then I am supposed to print it using standard OS commands. I can print it on any paper size, obviously.
However, the page explicitly states that I should not resize the pdf to print. But if I don't resize the paper, parts of the pdf are outside the sheet.2/2
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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!Can't wait to check it out when I get home!
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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 You actually turn your patrons into energy for your software service?
"I'll take your donation. And I'll take you too."
We all gotta eat I guess.
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@ChrisPirillo does the template have to be that size or will A4 paper work ok?
@dan the template is pretty locked in right now. There's only so much I can do but this is at least a start.
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@ChrisPirillo now, if only people could read my handwriting i could use this
@mensrea that's for the next version. LoL
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@s0 let me see what I can do.
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@fasnix it's what I do.
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@ChrisPirillo Nice! How much will it be off if I print on A4 instead of Letter size paper?
@Ganneff let me see what I can do.
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@ChrisPirillo i love this, awesome work
@joostvb thank you!
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@ChrisPirillo While I appreciate both the effort and craft - you clearly overestimate the legibility of my handwriting. By a lot.
@cpy I am not responsible for that.
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@ChrisPirillo Bro, you cooked up a hit great
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I am sooo glad that our entire ecosystem is being destroyed for something absolutely impossible to avoid such as... check notes... bad handwriting fonts.
@Rockerz would you rather me have expressed myself by designing another productivity app?
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@ChrisPirillo I love the idea but my handwriting is cursive, and not all capitals.
@oldrawgabbit there's only so much I can do.
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@Rockerz @ChrisPirillo Just FYI
I have a signature font I created with Fontographer. It contains three signatures: my initials, first name and full name.
More than once I have had to return "signed" copies of documents by reply and in circumstances where I could create PDFs but wasn't able to print.
Chopping down trees to print, then scan, then email, or worse, expend energy transporting documents, isn't the alternative you think it is.
Any font that avoids that necessity is useful.
@samueljohnson @Rockerz plus it just looks cool.
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@ChrisPirillo
How is it handling variations on a letter?It appears that you have three samples per letter? Does it just rotate through?
Does it differentiate between uppercase and lowercase lettersets?
@DelilahTech it can, yes. I gotta try to explain better.
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@samueljohnson @Rockerz plus it just looks cool.
@ChrisPirillo @Rockerz When a colleague and I had to return signed forms and I used a signature font and he inserted a jpg and had it returned... I chuckled. Indeed, it looks "cool" if you know, and if you don't, it's even better.
I made one for a former boss of mine, back in the days if faxing PDFs by email, and he was very wide-eyed about it at first. As if I might direct his bank to transfer his savings elsewhere. He got over it.
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Thank you for this app!
I was able to get my handwritten font in a few attempts. I am missing a finer felt tip pen, but I will get one.
I had some issue in getting the lowercase g, p, q with correct baseline, and in the end I had to use #fontforge to adjust them.
I also noticed that accentded "i" automatically gets an accent over the dot and not in place of. Also the € sign is missing, while it's quite common for europeans.
Ligatures seems to be not working correctly. If I activate them I get mixed uppercase and lowercase, even if I correctly selected the first line uppercase and the second and third lowercase. It looks like pre-defined ligatures are not optimal. Probably they are fine for typography, but for handwriting you really need another set. Then one should adapt to their writing.
Overall it was a nice experience, I recommend it and I hope you will continue working on it!
I was concerned that small size would render the font illegible, but I was wrong. It is more legible that certain actual fonts.
@77nn you're my first known test case. Given me a few ideas. There's only so much I can do, of course.
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@ChrisPirillo incredible. As a healthcare professional I'm going to have fun with some epic trolling now.
'supports ligatures' means I'm going to make it match my writing for certain words like communication that come out like Cuuuuutuuuum
