Handwriting, as a Font

(ductus.sorenblank.com)

81 points | by coinfused 4 hours ago

13 comments

  • binarymax 0 minutes ago
    Awesome. Gonna troll everyone at work this week with screenshots of some code snippets with my new font!
  • johannes1234321 11 minutes ago
    This is really nice. Unfortunately it doesn't have accented characters. Thus I can't write my name using that font, which is a key thing I'd use "my" font for.

    I understand they don't want to go through all of Unicode, but a way to add custom letters would be nice.

  • coolcoder613 1 hour 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.
    • pseudosaid 12 minutes ago
      How can it provide samples when everyone 's handwriting is totally different? This is one of those things where you're gonna get out what you put into it. So you're not getting anything
      • nkrisc 0 minutes ago
        Show real inputs with real outputs. Obviously it won’t be my handwriting, but it would show what it’s capable of.
  • tom1337 59 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.

    • broabprobe 45 minutes ago
      similar issue

      `Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unable to complete output ring starting at [726.9361515195169, 801.9443807599653]. Last matching segment found ends at [880.1467901436013, 345.9468431398382]`

      sad it wont save after writing all the letters! :|

  • firefoxd 1 hour 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.
  • Weetile 16 minutes ago
    Any ability to add custom symbols? I'd like to type out £ and € as I use them often as a European.
    • nasso_dev 12 minutes ago
      i agree!! also ligatures for common combinations would be nice, because handwriting is very "dynamic"
  • AZDR 16 minutes ago
    This is so cool! IMO, every personal blog should be written in the individual's handwriting.
  • BadBadJellyBean 46 minutes ago
    More umlauts please! äüöß
  • Humphrey 47 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!
  • ydna404 1 hour 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 51 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 1 hour 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 2 hours 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 58 minutes ago
    Excellent user experience.