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):

[chrispirillo@mastodon.social]

@jennifer the thing it was designed to do? lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[chrispirillo@mastodon.social]

@mason @jennifer seems like the #ai and #vibecoding hashtags were a dead giveaway? Nothing gets by you.

[exil_inselette@norden.social]

@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 …)

[chrispirillo@mastodon.social]

@exil_inselette it creates a lot of those characters automatically.

[exil_inselette@norden.social]

@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*

[exil_inselette@norden.social]

@ChrisPirillo Sorry, another Question: It only creates capital letters?
🥺

[chrispirillo@mastodon.social]

@exil_inselette it creates whatever you draw.

[exil_inselette@norden.social]

@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?

[chrispirillo@mastodon.social]

@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.

[agajdosi@witter.cz]

@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.

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@ChrisPirillo does the template have to be that size or will A4 paper work ok?

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@ChrisPirillo now, if only people could read my handwriting i could use this

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@ChrisPirillo
That's great!
Just yesterday that's what I thought about!
Thanks, mate!

[exil_inselette@norden.social]

@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

[0@corteximplant.com]

@ChrisPirillo can you please start putting alt text on your images? you've been part of the Internet for so long, if anyone might understand the importance of alt text I'd assume it would be you

[ganneff@fulda.social]

@ChrisPirillo Nice! How much will it be off if I print on A4 instead of Letter size paper?

[joostvb@mastodon.green]

@ChrisPirillo i love this, awesome work

[cpy@mastodon.social]

@ChrisPirillo While I appreciate both the effort and craft - you clearly overestimate the legibility of my handwriting. By a lot.

[orsomaria@mastodon.uno]

@ChrisPirillo Bro, you cooked up a hit great

[rockerz@mastodon.art]

@ChrisPirillo

I am sooo glad that our entire ecosystem is being destroyed for something absolutely impossible to avoid such as... check notes... bad handwriting fonts.