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Awesome, but fails with accents etc. A case for polish: „Zażółć gęślą jaźń” - fails in many gunny ways. I also tried emojis - of course it failed, but now I’m super curious how would hand written emojis look like :D
I did something like this but for dick drawings many years ago.
Then your favourite font must be Semi: https://www.dafont.com/semi.font
I think a lot about how the written English language has been altered by technology. Latin majuscule letterforms were designed, AFAICT, to be easy to chisel into stone. Miniscule letterforms were later invented because they were faster to write, enabling monks to copy manuscripts more quickly. Printing press manufacturers saved money by getting rid of letters that could be replaced by combining others (the thorn), al…
(Thinking about this I do often wonder what a form of handwriting optimised for the ballpoint pen would look like… probably quite different to our current handwriting styles!)
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Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)
My first name contains one of the fewest used letters of the alphabet and in first position nonetheless: Xavier Let me tell you: the training data did not contain that many X to begin with :D The Xs at best look like Ts, at worst like malformed Os. Always funny to find the blind spots of some piece of tech.
If anyone's interested, I think this is the github url of this project (had to dig a bit since it's not mentioned in the page): https://github.com/sjvasquez/handwriting-synthesis
Combine this with ChatGPT and a Pen Plotter and you can offer heartfelt hand-written letters as a service. (That are neither handwritten, nor heartfelt, but people won't notice, or care.)