Handwriting, as a Font

(ductus.sorenblank.com)

61 points | by coinfused 3 hours ago

9 comments

  • tom1337 24 minutes ago
    Created a font but at some letter the preview stopped working. The export buttons are also greyed out.

    Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to find segment #17104 [1134.0749756226644, 626.626581389815] -> [1138.8056996223609, 620.6136535032142] in SweepLine tree.

  • coolcoder613 48 minutes ago
    It needs samples, I'm not going to get out my wacom to do all that without seeing what the results will look like.
  • Humphrey 11 minutes ago
    Super cool! Except for the sore wrist from drawing on my Mac's touchpad. My font legit looks like I wrote it using my touch pad!
  • firefoxd 31 minutes ago
    The best part of this is the execution. Writing a letter at a time, doesn't really capture my handwriting. In Handwriting, characters shape change relative to their surroundings. However, the tool still made it easy to capture an initial version in one sitting. Kudos.
  • BadBadJellyBean 11 minutes ago
    More umlauts please! äüöß
  • ydna404 32 minutes ago
    I really wanted to finish, but couldn't get past e because I'm too ADHD :').

    It could be cool if you can do OCR maybe? My handwriting sucks but I have friends who have good handwriting :D

    • loloquwowndueo 15 minutes ago
      Isn’t the point for it to be your handwriting? If you’re going to use someone else’s because it looks good, plenty of existing “handwriting” fonts out there. Or, for the ultimate in legibility and good looks, just use the nearest serif font in your system and you’re done.
  • kylecazar 42 minutes ago
    Wow.. This is awesome, the UX is very good. Nice!

    My characters are terrible (my own fault) so I likely won't use my font... but I can imagine others finding it useful.

  • mmvvaa 1 hour ago
    Loved this. It took me a while to realize it was going to take me a while to input all of them. I thought it would be nice if I could just take a picture of some of my writing, and then use the "adjust" feature on the top right.
    • smusamashah 1 hour ago
      It's a lot doable these days. I saw someone doing exactly that on twitter using opus.
  • memming 23 minutes ago
    Excellent user experience.