Astro Hacker News - Handwriting, as a Font

johannes1234321 |next [-]

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.

binarymax |next |previous [-]

Awesome. Gonna troll everyone at work this week with screenshots of some code snippets with my new font!

coolcoder613 |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

Show real outputs applied to various text. Obviously it won’t be my handwriting, but it would show what it’s capable of.

tom1337 |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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.

slim |next |previous [-]

it's perfect on mobile. don't change anything. I said to myself let's try a few letters.. then I could not stop till I finished all the letters. it took 10 min using my finger

Weetile |next |previous [-]

Any ability to add custom symbols? I'd like to type out £ and € as I use them often as a European.

nasso_dev |root |parent [-]

i agree!! also ligatures for common combinations would be nice, because handwriting is very "dynamic"

AZDR |next |previous [-]

This is so cool! IMO, every personal blog should be written in the individual's handwriting.

BadBadJellyBean |next |previous [-]

More umlauts please! äüöß

Humphrey |next |previous [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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 |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

It's a lot doable these days. I saw someone doing exactly that on twitter using opus.

memming |previous [-]

Excellent user experience.