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Making a font of my handwriting

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Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by oftheirc »

marginalien wrote: post #59

This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I am currently preparing for a workshop with children in which I want to let them “draw” their own website/web-apps. So far I did not plan to let them create their own fonts, as I did not know how to, but now I know. Thanks to you! Ps: if you have any other ideas how to make such a workshop for children more exciting, please let me know! For instance, I wanted to let them cre…

Hi, I would like to contribute to this if you'll have me.

I have been wanting to get experience educating young kids from my home town about technology how it can be used for creative work.

Based in Nigeria/Africa. I wrestle JavaScript with single quotes and no semi-colons.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by urbandw311er »

edweis wrote: post #57

What a bummer the website https://www.calligraphr.com is a subscription model. I could impulsively pay $100 to get my handwriting as a TTF font and be quite happy about it.

The subscription is only for backups and ongoing changes - you get to keep your font forever. I think the author mentions that the whole experience cost them about $10

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by chneu »

jlev wrote: post #5

I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthandjosh.net/story/ (warning, millennial cringe ahead)

this rules.

i actually think the design/layout is kind of timeless.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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tombert wrote: post #12

My handwriting is exceedingly bad, and it gets worse every time I do it. It's sort of a feedback loop; my handwriting is bad so I type everything, and since I never practice my handwriting it gets bad. I think if someone made a font based on my handwriting it could be used as a cryptographic hash. I do like the idea of it though; even though I don't think it's less personal to type a message than handwrite it, it fee…

the whole "there are easier ways to do things so i never develop a skillset" is a big problem nowadays, imo. There are always easier ways to do stuff but in the long run they aren't the better way to do something because you wind up learning a system instead of how to do something.

i'll use my roommate as an example. Dude uses a knife sharpener system but can't actually sharpen a knife with a stone. The second his system doesn't work he can't actually sharpen a knife. All he knows is how to use the system. I see this in a lot of people nowadays. They know how to follow some instructions but the connections to why are never made.

As a society our basic skillsets are extremely atrophied because capitalism has turned everything into a pay-to-save-time system, or something.

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by globular-toast »

gxs wrote: post #36
apparent wrote: post #13

They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it? I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like th…

This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get super fidgety Not to mention my handwriting stinks For me it’s a lot easier to remember when I’m fully immersed and processing ideas vs tediously writing I do think this is probably ju…

Your handwriting skills are due to lack of practice. You weren't born typing at 121wpm.

I prefer typing for anything longer than a few words. But I can't type a picture (despite things like Mermaid and PlantUML) being useful.

I make extensive use of paper (and whiteboards if I'm sharing) for making pictures, mostly graph-like things such as flow diagrams, sequences, ERD etc. I feel somewhat "disabled" if I'm forced to just screen technology to do it (although Excalidraw is pretty good).

Re: Making a font of my handwriting

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Post by tombert »

chneu wrote: post #65
tombert wrote: post #12

My handwriting is exceedingly bad, and it gets worse every time I do it. It's sort of a feedback loop; my handwriting is bad so I type everything, and since I never practice my handwriting it gets bad. I think if someone made a font based on my handwriting it could be used as a cryptographic hash. I do like the idea of it though; even though I don't think it's less personal to type a message than handwrite it, it fee…

the whole "there are easier ways to do things so i never develop a skillset" is a big problem nowadays, imo. There are always easier ways to do stuff but in the long run they aren't the better way to do something because you wind up learning a system instead of how to do something. i'll use my roommate as an example. Dude uses a knife sharpener system but can't actually sharpen a knife with a stone. The second his sy…

It’s not a “nowadays” problem. People have always been like that. People probably stopped routinely learning how to ride horses once once cars started getting popular.
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