Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#82Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
Teletype machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#83Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
This is what a teletype is: it's a typewriter with a serial connection. You send bytes over the serial cable and it types them.
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#85This 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?
I agree with your statement, and cursive has extra benefits like leading to better hand strength and so on but outside of that, signatures aren't a good counter argument.
Signatures aren't cursive, they're a curated, custom art piece.
Arguably even signatures are being replaced with digital agreements. Just click "I Agree [and we'll use other proof than the squiggly that it was you because your digital squiggly is uselessly different every time]".
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#86Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
Only tangentially related, but this is a good research starting point: https://www.gt-pressura.com/
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#87There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font. Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the…
If only my handwriting weren't utter chicken scratch I'd use this, but in my case - nobody needs to see that. :-/
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.
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#88Odd that so many commenters see to be declaring proudly or ruefully that their handwriting is bad, and ‘no one wants it’ or ‘the world doesn’t need to see it’ or similar…
It’s your handwriting, why be so judgemental after all?
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#89Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
You want a daisy wheel printer[1] I think.
Re: FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
#90There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font. Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the…
There's very good OCR models. Then it becomes a matter of which letter is which. In Latin script there's only 26 possibilities, and then there's numbers and symbols.