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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.
Article links right to the font.
There 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…
Ah, the Overleaf model. Am I crazy to think there should be some way to stop this? It's utterly anticompetitive, but ai don't know any country where they bother trying to stop a small company buying/killing its competitors.
"Can I buy your company?"
"No."
I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.
Personally, I like that my handwriting has tiny inconsistencies in every character and rarely-repeated flourishes. I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.
Personally, I like that my handwriting has tiny inconsistencies in every character and rarely-repeated flourishes. I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.
Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
I have long theorized that it is inscrutable for a reason: as a bar to laypeople reading a/o editing prescriptions. Turning "30 pills of Pennicillin, refill 0 times" into "30 pills of OxyContin, refill 3 times" is much harder when you can't even figure out which part is the drug name. (Kids who are about to point out this couldn't work: Prescriptions used to be hand-written on paper, and never checked by the then-ine…
Controlling access to stationary, prescription pads, and the office’s fax machine is one part. Making it hard to forge the doctor’s handwriting is another.
Personally, I like that my handwriting has tiny inconsistencies in every character and rarely-repeated flourishes. I don't want to manufacture something that looks like it, but loses the soul of it.
edit: basically what DANmode replied to the same parent. I did this 10 years ago while running for political office.
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time .
Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
We've done all we can for toast0. But he'll have a secretary so it'll be fine
I never did get to have a secretary, but thanks to COVID learning losses, I do manage to have a lot better penmanship than about half of kids going into high school this year. :)