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If only my handwriting weren't utter chicken scratch I'd use this, but in my case - nobody needs to see that. :-/
No need for encryption if no-one can read you ;) I'm in the same boat haha
Dr. Kumar?
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#142Wow. :D
Thanks for picking this up! More to come. I'm working on adding color support right now.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#143My 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…
Try it again. Made some beefy updates earlier today to catch outliers.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#144My 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 not a course.
What I do is free and intended to be workshops for non-technical users to understand the power of technology rather than slamming it in their face.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#145I really wanted to make this work with my daughter. She's 9yo, and she filled out the form, and we scanned it with a real scanner. I'll admit we didn't have a felt tip pen, but we did have a grea black ink gell pen. But something about the way the app applied the threshold on the scanned image, made the letters really broken. Maybe having a thicker pen would be the solution.
Try it again. Fixed quite a few bugs today.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#146Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.
Please, try again. I pushed a few fixes out this afternoon.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#147Tried 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... :(
Try again? Same template should work (with current fixes in place).
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#148The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?
You configure that in the Configuration section. ;)
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#149Hey, cool, that's using my library: https://opentype.js.org/ It's nice to see it pop up in so many places!
So VERY grateful!
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#150I really wanted to make this work with my daughter. She's 9yo, and she filled out the form, and we scanned it with a real scanner. I'll admit we didn't have a felt tip pen, but we did have a grea black ink gell pen. But something about the way the app applied the threshold on the scanned image, made the letters really broken. Maybe having a thicker pen would be the solution.
Run it through a dilate filter a few times.