FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font • Hacker News Board

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by easton » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by 4ndr3vv » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #19

nacozarina wrote: post #10

new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !

I hereby declare I''ll be unfit for school next Friday due to an illness. Signed, Mom

I HEREBY DECLARE I' LL BE UNFIT FOR SCHOOL NE XT FRIDAY DUE TO AN ILLnESS .

S I G N E D , M O M

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by catoc » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

jruohonen wrote: post #2

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

I don’t see the downside here.

If you don’t believe it, maybe disconnect from network before dropping the file?

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by roughE » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:02 PM UTC

micw wrote: post #29

Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?

Asking the right questions

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by xmattx » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by alsodumb » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:11 PM UTC

My hand writing is so bad I don't know if a really want a font out of it lol (love the project though!)

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by stratosgear » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:12 PM UTC

xmattx wrote: post #35

Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.

Same here. The characters need to move higher. They look like I wrote them below the baseline... :(

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by karmasimida » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:17 PM UTC

Well I really don't like my handwriting, would rather avoid it

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by Y_Y » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

ghrl wrote: post #12

There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font. Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the…

Ah, the Overleaf model.

Am I crazy to think there should be some way to stop this? It's utterly anticompetitive, but ai don't know any country where they bother trying to stop a small company buying/killing its competitors.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by axegon_ » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 12:22 PM UTC

Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin