Turn your handwriting into a font
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Turn your handwriting into a font
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Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#2Has anyone managed to assemble a workable font based on Dijkstra's handwriting? Last I checked, there we few attempts but they were all missing characters.
http://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-handw...
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#3Has anyone managed to assemble a workable font based on Dijkstra's handwriting? Last I checked, there we few attempts but they were all missing characters. http://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-handw...
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#4Are there potential security concerns here?
I know not many people use handwritten letters any more, but this potentially gives this company a complete sample of your handwriting, which they can then use for whatever purpose they want.
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#5Are there potential security concerns here? I know not many people use handwritten letters any more, but this potentially gives this company a complete sample of your handwriting, which they can then use for whatever purpose they want.
If you give it a try you'll see it doesn't work well and it's nothing like cursive or 'natural' handwriting. The sheet you have to fill in changes your natural handwriting fairly dramatically (it did for me at least).
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#6Are there potential security concerns here? I know not many people use handwritten letters any more, but this potentially gives this company a complete sample of your handwriting, which they can then use for whatever purpose they want.
If you give it a try you'll see it doesn't work well and it's nothing like cursive or 'natural' handwriting. The sheet you have to fill in changes your natural handwriting fairly dramatically (it did for me at least).
Did the same for me too, seems logic if you look at the limited "data sample" they can analyze with the sheet you fill in
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#7Are there potential security concerns here? I know not many people use handwritten letters any more, but this potentially gives this company a complete sample of your handwriting, which they can then use for whatever purpose they want.
If you give it a try you'll see it doesn't work well and it's nothing like cursive or 'natural' handwriting. The sheet you have to fill in changes your natural handwriting fairly dramatically (it did for me at least).
Because in cursive writing, the letters are connected - that's something that works in high quality, high effort script fonts. They way they do it is to use OpenType replacement features for various combinations of letters. For example, there are a bunch of a's in one font, and when the OpenType system detects a+n, it chooses the a that is drawn to connect with the n. There also may be different versions of the letters, so that the text gets more rhythm (like naturally written).
It would actually be an interesting machine learning application not only to recognize letters from an actual sample (say a document in cursive writing), but also to understand how the letters connect and then create a cursive font based on that.
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#8Huh. I remember having a program that did this on my old Toshiba convertible laptop back in 2005. I got it on eBay for fairly cheap and it was neat to have a pretty lightweight (for the time) laptop with a screen you could flip around and use as a tablet with active digitizer.
Wonder if I still have the old font file floating around anywhere.
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#9You know, I could see this being a fun tool for people who are into calligraphy to make their own fonts. I'm not sure that just "Turn my natural handwriting into a font" is what this does though. I tried it, and it worked much more cleanly with calligraphy.
Re: Turn your handwriting into a font
#10Are there potential security concerns here? I know not many people use handwritten letters any more, but this potentially gives this company a complete sample of your handwriting, which they can then use for whatever purpose they want.
If you give it a try you'll see it doesn't work well and it's nothing like cursive or 'natural' handwriting. The sheet you have to fill in changes your natural handwriting fairly dramatically (it did for me at least).
Yeah, i was thinking that they should have a different template pdf where the letters are not shown in the boxes, but perhaps beside or underneath the boxes. When you're writing over those typed letters, you're more likely to trace them, resulting in a less natural handwriting.