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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 varun_ch »

rustyhancock wrote: post #118
varun_ch wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For sure! I was so surprised to see that this was done all in browser. I mean there’s no reason that shouldn’t be possible in 2026 considering there’s services that do this server side, but still it’s always impressive when something like this comes along.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by ChrisPirillo »

chandraonline wrote: post #99
easton wrote: post #31

Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time .

OMG Yes! Dating ourselves aren't we? Pirillo, Laporte, Dvorak - awesome folks from Tech TV

i used to date myself but had to buy myself dinner

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by ChrisPirillo »

mittermayr wrote: post #14

Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!? Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

Please try again? I fixed a couple of snags. Use your same template?

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by DonHopkins »

theultdev wrote: post #49
ixvo wrote: post #27

This works mostly for the US, where people don't write in cursive.

People write in cursive all the time. You mainly sign in cursive. Kids are being taught cursive again. Texas has been doing it again for awhile. No idea why they stopped teaching it for a few years, kind of messed those kids up. How do people have a signature if they don't know cursive? Do they just print it twice lol?

Arguing that something is good because Texas is doing it is ultimately a self defeating argument that reveals a lot about you (as do the other internet incel horseshit and exuberant defenses of Scott Adams' racism and misogyny you post). Do you mean systematic institutionalized racism, rampant gun violence, and frequent school shootings are good too?

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by NetOpWibby »

qup wrote: post #114
vasco wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’m interested in this, please share when you’re done!

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by siliconpotato »

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/

ugh. i came to see why this site failed completely to work as expected. turns out that a human has barely been anywhere near it and thinks that delivering non-working slop is fine. what a waste of my time and printer paper.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by antonyh »

siliconpotato wrote: post #75
antonyh wrote: post #22

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Conversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.

i'm in the UK and most people i know drop cursive for non-joined up handwriting as soon as they get the opportunity.

My daughter simply cannot write without joining the letters, finds it impossible. Time will tell if this remains true. Everyone is different in the best possible way.
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