Making a font of my handwriting
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Making a font of my handwriting
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Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#2There used to be a form to fill out in Sky Mall to be able to do this through some service. Back in the days where you would fill it out by hand and mail your handwriting to them.
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#3I wonder if there's any way to transform this approach taken by Amy Goodchild into actual font files: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
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#4>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive
The font created is print, not cursive.
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#5I 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)
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#6I wonder if there's any way to transform this approach taken by Amy Goodchild into actual font files: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
I'd bet it would be matter of "translating" those Chaikin's paths to Bézier. Then you could generate Metafont fonts from that, and from that you could get ttf, otf and whatnot.
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#7I 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)
warmed my heart, wishing you a great life together
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#8>Next, I wanted to change the heading fonts from a monospace font to something cursive The font created is print, not cursive.
Maybe cursive in a "Comic Sans in the default 'cursive' fallback font on Windows" kind of way.
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#9For those who were hoping for the physical version of this, I recommend the Stuff Made Here Video on the topic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw
Re: Making a font of my handwriting
#10When I was a teenager I made a ttf-font from the handwriting of a girl I was in love with as a gift for her. Man I underestimated that task seriously. I used some tool that was included in the Corel Draw Suite, scanned a sheet of paper on which she had written me the alphabet (in upper and in lower case) and vectorized everything by hand. It was so. Much. Work. Since then a quarter of a century has passed and it is one of those stories which leaves me amazed at the amount of naive stubborn energy of youth. I mean it was just for a birthday but I spent so much time on it and most of that time I didn't really know what I was doing. But somehow I succeeded, probably just because I didn't know any better.