I love the idea of converting your handwriting into a font. Signing an email with your own font would add a great personal touch. Or it could be useful to people who make digital scrapbooking, or want to personalize their photos or blog posts with a handwritten note. Fontifier allows you to create your own font by simply printing a template and filling it in with the letters of the alphabet, and then scanning and uploading it. I have not tried it, but it sounds fun to me!
Edit: In the comments, Chloe W. suggested My Script Font. It provides the same service as Fontifier, but it's free!
Edit: In the comments, Chloe W. suggested My Script Font. It provides the same service as Fontifier, but it's free!
I like that idea. I'm going to check it out now.
ReplyDeleteYou can do this for free with adobe photoshop.
DeleteI like the idea of a handwriting font. Who knew?? Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeletepilothandwriting.com has this also. It's by the pilot pen company. Very cool though. I'll have to try this one out.
ReplyDeletepilot does it but you can't buy it for download! that's the genius of it.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? I am so all over this!
ReplyDeleteIf you have a scanner...you can do this for free yourself. Its really not terribly hard.
ReplyDeleteThere are also free services to do it for you if you'd rather.
Hey, how do you do this?
Deleteok anonymous... point us in the right direction... :)
ReplyDeleteI imagine you could try Inkscape after scanning, but I'm not sure where to go from there. You could try asking someone from the Inkscape blogs.
Deletesounds wonderful, might just try this!
ReplyDeleteThe link goes to GoDaddy.com
ReplyDeleteHi Maya,
DeleteThe company I linked to when I wrote this post seems to be down. I updated the link - another company called Fontifier (http://www.fontifier.com) offers the same service.
Clemence, Maya
DeleteOur site was down for 8 days (our domain was pirated!) - sorry ;( - We are back up though! We also have an online app that lets you create online "handwritten letters" using your own created font or a generic handwritten font. Do check it out!
http://www.writing-fonts.com/create-handwritten-letters-online-using-your-own-hand-writing-fonts
thank you ladies!
Andy
oh & If you're feeling generous maybe you could change the link back to writing-fonts.com ;)
Deletethis is so nice
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool idea! :D
ReplyDeletexo
you can do this at http://www.myscriptfont.com/ for free. all you need it a printer that can scan and your set!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU! it worked very well... will recommend :)
DeleteThanks for the tip, worked for me but I now realise my handwriting looks like a childs! I can see me filling out the sample form many many times!
DeleteI have dreamed about this since I was little so that I didn't have to write out long reports! but its a shame you have to buy it with credit card.....
ReplyDeleteI like the idea. What do you thing about this creation?
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