Hey, cool, that's using my library: https://opentype.js.org/
It's nice to see it pop up in so many places!
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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How fast can you write in cursive vs non-cursive? I am much slower in non-cursive when writing. The only issue is that my cursive is pretty lousy looking.
I'd hedge to say roughly the same, but that's writing print in chicken-scratch handwriting (which is my norm) and under-practiced with cursive. I'd suspect after using cursive a bit I would speed up. Similar to using home-row when typing vs pick-and-peck or whatever they call it My phone would transcribe even quicker than that, though, which would probably be my go-to instead of hand-writing
I find it hard to speak into my phone while I am in a live meeting and trying to summarize my instant thoughts for paper or my Remarkable :)
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#133As a calligrapher, I appreciate this.
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#134Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time .
MobilePhone2003? or was it 2006?
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#135Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
>how I and most people I know write.
I do not know a single person who writes any cursive outside their signature.
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I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
That's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script. I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.
See also: https://primarium.info/handwriting-models .
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#137I did this 20 years ago when I bought a convertible tablet with a stylus.
It was the first touchscreen I'd ever owned, and ran a special Tablet edition of XP. If I recall, it came with something similar to Microsoft Font Maker. On a roadtrip, a friend of mine scrawled in all the letters and presto, we had a new handwritten font.
The script looked kind of like a kid's handwriting. Over the years I used it (with permission) in various PDF's and doc files, mainly when I was showcasing how to fill in a form. It lent a nice, obvious distinction between the phrases that were part of the form template, and the portions that had been "handwritten" in. The last time I used it was to train volunteer firefighters how to fill in certain medical paperwork and equipment inspection logs.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Indeed
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#140fun tool! last month, i built a similar one but with focus on drawing directly on mobile. no need to print pages. open source!