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 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 -
Can't wait to check it out when I get home!
@MyWoolyMastadon let me know how it goes.
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@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.
@crazyeddie nom nom nom
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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 that is great, unfortunately, my handwriting is unreadable, even to myself
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@ChrisPirillo that is great, unfortunately, my handwriting is unreadable, even to myself
@SRAZKVT I can't fix that.
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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 but... Letter size?
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@ChrisPirillo but... Letter size?
@krijnsoeteman working on it. This is an MVP.
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@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
@dl2jml @der_mit_ph @exil_inselette working on A4.
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@ChrisPirillo Have you seen https://youtu.be/xsquXQHKtHE ?
@tijl not yet!
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@krijnsoeteman working on it. This is an MVP.
@ChrisPirillo
i understand! Weird world where they don't use letter... (Or feet or cups or, miles, or... ;-)) (sorry, couldn't not say it) -
@ChrisPirillo this makes me so happy! I’m going to make my dad his own font for his birthday.
@gretchen let me know how it turns out!
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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?“
@der_mit_ph @dl2jml @exil_inselette let me iterate.
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@Rockerz would you rather me have expressed myself by designing another productivity app?
@ChrisPirillo I'd rather have you actually express yourself. Not using AI which everyone knows how destructive it is to the planet, to us humans and to our democracies' very fabric. I'd rather have you do the work yourself, learn, struggle, take time, a year if need be. I'd rather your hobby be the same while not destroying the ecosystems in the process. Vibecoding is like shooting a dog to get red paint. Congratulations, you now have bloody red paint and a dead dog. Slow clap from the audience.
