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):
https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works.
Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!@ChrisPirillo this makes me so happy! I’m going to make my dad his own font for his birthday.
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@samueljohnson By the way: I made myself clear twice, regarding what my primary concern is. I re-read myself to be sure of that. So I can't help but start to wonder if you are deliberately missing the point here. I hope not.
See this?
https://mastodon.social/@ChrisPirillo/116178076740432072
I have concerns about almost everything there. Serious ones.
@Rockerz You made yourself clear twice?
Kindly forgive my not understanding you even once. I completely missed any reference to vibecoding or AI in your response.
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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):
https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
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):
https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
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):
https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
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.
