FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font • Hacker News Board

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by world2vec » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by antonyh » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

Daneel_ wrote: post #11

Thomashuet wrote: post #8

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.

I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.

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.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by guenthert » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:34 AM UTC

psychoslave wrote: post #18

Daneel_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah, no idea how print became handwriting and handwriting longhand/cursive, but that's how it is and has been for decades in the USA.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by guenthert » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

Angostura wrote: post #20

Daneel_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.

Still taught in uk primary schools as the fastest way to get words down in paper