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]

@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!

[twoowls73@mastodon.scot]

@ChrisPirillo brilliant! Thank you

[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.

[oldrawgabbit@mastodon.world]

@ChrisPirillo I love the idea but my handwriting is cursive, and not all capitals.

[binchicken@rants.au]

@ewen Yeah-nah, I'll give it a miss. This vibe-coding fails on Step 1 where it specifies a paper size that induces a "PC LOAD LETTER" error that drives people in most parts of the world into such a rage that they smash their printer into smithereens. I don't know what it means that a planet-boiling chatbot connected to an IDE didn't include an option for A4 paper, but it says something about the human who thought it's a good idea to publish the result.

[dl2jml@mastodon.radio]

@ChrisPirillo @exil_inselette I'll second the request for diacritics and A4 paper size.

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@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.

[delilahtech@tech.lgbt]

@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?