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FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by kmoser »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #91
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #81

Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.

Add this to your list if things you try: https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/02/a-hyperrealistic-typewrit... Article links right to the font.

This is cool, but when viewed up close, laser-printed letters still lack the fuzzy edges and imprinted texture of letters created by typewriter slugs.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by chrismorgan »

toast0 wrote: post #100
axegon_ wrote: post #40

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

My 3rd grade teacher wrote something like this regarding my handwriting in my final report card: We've done all we can for toast0. But he'll have a secretary so it'll be fine I never did get to have a secretary, but thanks to COVID learning losses, I do manage to have a lot better penmanship than about half of kids going into high school this year. :)

I never did get my pen license—they insisted on the dynamic tripod grasp, which I never could cope with (I prefer lateral quadrupod). So I and one other had to keep using pencils until the end of grade four, after which point they forgot about the matter.

My elder brother had (simplifying the story a lot) such bad handwriting that they let him type his year 12 exams, turning a possible disadvantage into a frankly unfair advantage, especially in English, where being able to output four times as fast is valuable. Wish I could have done that.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by mixylplik3 »

I can't speak to the service in the headline, but I used a service at least 10 years ago and brought it to a family party to show off. I thought it was a cool thing to do so we all filled out the alphabet/number/symbol sheets I printed out and made a bunch of fonts for family members. Didn't think much of it, the novelty faded, but then people started getting old and dying.

Now I have little snippets of history and unique handwriting, albeit simplistic and imperfect, that remind me of my loved ones passed in a unique way.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by qup »

vasco wrote: post #87
coderbants wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only my handwriting weren't utter chicken scratch I'd use this, but in my case - nobody needs to see that. :-/

You can use a picture of anyone's handwriting. There's high res pictures of medieval monks handwriting and so on that probably would be really cool as fonts.

Your comment inspired me--I have an autograph book from the 1800s, my great-great-grandmother's.

The kids back then would sign notes to each other in these books, in lieu of a yearbook.

The handwriting is absolutely stunning. I have to do this now.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by varun_ch »

rustyhancock wrote: post #73

My experience was a bit of a disaster. It's worth noting that it's only at the end that it turns out you have 3 options for using the rows (you can't say use row 1&2 caps but row 3 lowercase) For whatever reason it really struggled to detect the cross hairs. It thought the top right cross hair was the O. I had intensely compress the black white range to make it detect at all. What should it look like btw? Also even t…

The website does say that it was ‘vibe coded’[0] so perhaps the author didn’t test it very thoroughly? They apparently do ‘vibe coding’ courses so.. that’s something.

[0] https://arcade.pirillo.com/

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by jech »

d1sxeyes wrote: post #45
jech wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/%D0%9B%D... Understandable.

OP double negated - cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages. Russian cursive is actually not that bad to read for the most part. Russian “print” is super awkward because all the characters are very angular. There are some differences between generations (younger generations are more likely to write “т” in handwriting whereas the “correct” form looks more like a Latin “m”, but with obvious examples excluded (like…

> cursive is the norm for Russians of all ages.

I know. I always feel utterly embarrassed when Russian-speaking friends write down a movie title for me, and I have to ask them to rewrite it in block capitals.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by rustyhancock »

varun_ch wrote: post #115
rustyhancock wrote: post #73

My experience was a bit of a disaster. It's worth noting that it's only at the end that it turns out you have 3 options for using the rows (you can't say use row 1&2 caps but row 3 lowercase) For whatever reason it really struggled to detect the cross hairs. It thought the top right cross hair was the O. I had intensely compress the black white range to make it detect at all. What should it look like btw? Also even t…

The website does say that it was ‘vibe coded’[0] so perhaps the author didn’t test it very thoroughly? They apparently do ‘vibe coding’ courses so.. that’s something. [0] https://arcade.pirillo.com/

It's really impressive for what it is.

I tried it various pens and paper sizes and printer scales. And it suddenly worked but only if scanned at low res (200DPI).

Still I got a partially working font at the end

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by lovich »

gunalx wrote: post #109
Fnoord wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's very good OCR models. Then it becomes a matter of which letter is which. In Latin script there's only 26 possibilities, and then there's numbers and symbols. 1) https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr-3

not as simple as just OCR and map though. Some letters want space above them some want to be placed lower. take g and f and c for examples g and f are about the same height but different ofsets, and c would look like a capital C if scaled to the same size as g and f. (we probably want to auto adjust scales to match more evenly unless the text is on a grid (in case removing the grid is the difficulty) These are just t…

There are ligatures as well if you’re getting fancy
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