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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 47282847 »

psychoslave wrote: post #18
Daneel_ wrote: post #11

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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.

As for Germany, as far as I know only few states still teach cursive: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulausgangsschrift

The modern standard is a non-connected font https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundschrift

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by mattv8 »

Had to dig to find this but back in 2009 I was bored so I made a font based of my handwriting. I had a Wacom tablet and used this font creator- I'm pretty sure it was called Fontographer. Anyways it's still floating around the Internet: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/mattfont-font/

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by guenthert »

IAmBroom wrote: post #54
guenthert wrote: post #24

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Makes me wonder whether there are diction tests (I feared/hated those with a passion) in the USA?

Never even heard that term before. So: no.

Too late to edit, 'dictation' was meant. Seems I still suck at spelling ;-/

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by deposittag »

I 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.

Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font

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Post by elevation »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #58

I'm dysgraphic with a small essential tremor, and often write in a hybrid between cursive & block gothic. I'd need to make a few dozen different fonts & have it randomly pick between them for each letter to look like my handwriting. My drafting lettering is OK. But it's much, much slower & requires a straightedge, multiple thickness pencils, an eraser shield, and an eraser.

> I'd need to make a few dozen different fonts & have it randomly pick between them

I took this approach once and enjoyed the result. I filled out 10 copies of the template of a handwriting font generator and generated all 10 fonts. Then I wrote a python script to process a libreoffice document. If it saw the 'handwriting1' style anywhere in the document it would pseudorandomly alternate between fonts. Since uncanny resemblance of two adjacent letter is the biggest giveaway that a handwriting font is at play, I made sure my script would change the font within a word if there were two adjacent 'T' or 'S' characters.

I've since lost the code (it wasn't something I needed to often use) but with LLMs these days I'm sure I'd be inclined to build something better -- for instance, performing the randomization within a single font file, and using custom glyphs for adjacent 't' characters that might have a common crossbar, improved support for other languages I use, or rendering a particular case of my legal name as a signature.

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