FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

phoronixrly wrote: post #4

jruohonen wrote: post #2

The idea is cool, but, well: "No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."

Are you implying that the lack of data harvesting is a disadvantage?

It not a disadvantage but a rare trait nowadays.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by iberator » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

jruohonen wrote: post #2

The idea is cool, but, well: "No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."

well makes sense if JavaScript is run 100% locally.

Browser can be treated as loader of code to be executed only locally with Local only data.

i hate js, but it's doable

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by vaylian » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC

The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by Thomashuet » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC

I've used iFontMaker for this on the iPad - quite amusing to be able to select my own monospaced font for terminals (even if it is just "old man traced over Courier Prime badly".)

Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by nacozarina » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !