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I absolutely love this idea, but was surprised to see a digital input for handwriting style. I was expecting something along the lines of "take an image of your

by jshawl 7y ago

I absolutely love this idea, but was surprised to see a digital input for handwriting style. I was expecting something along the lines of "take an image of your handwriting and upload it". Where does the machine learning fit in? First guess is connection between letters but ill have to wait till I'm not at a keyboard to test this out.

savolai 7y ago
I'd love to be able to import data from my ReMarkable tablet to this.
thismyrealone 7y ago
Yeah, I was hoping to be able to upload an image of my writing to try it out. Trying to work the touchpad or even a digital draw tablet to some extent isn't really an accurate representation.
noteness 7y ago
You take picture of your handwriting and upload it, for this site: https://www.calligraphr.com/ https://www.calligraphr.com/ They used to be myscriptfont.com and didn't have those premium features though. Don't know if it is better or worse.
- prawn 7y ago
  I've used this to create a font for an app and it works well, given the effort it asks of you (not much!). It gives you a grid to print and then scrawl each letter. I brought the grid into my iPad, wrote over the top with an Apple Pencil, and then uploaded that. Here's what the grid with my handwriting looks like: https://imgur.com/a/urulzby https://imgur.com/a/urulzby
  - cerberusss 7y ago
    I found it actually quite hard to write exactly between the lines. I used an iPad, like you. When I upload the resulting PDF, it doesn't look great because the letters not on the same horizontal line. I tried to correct them and ran the procedure a second time, but it's going to take, in my estimation, at least an hour to get them just right. Not much for such a great tool, though. But in general, I find it a bit hard to neatly write on the iPad. It doesn't matter much, I just use it to keep track of notes while programming and designing software. And I can read it myself just fine. I think it's because the Pencil (version 1) feels more slippery than pen/paper while writing. The advantage of writing on the iPad though: no more paper.

by jshawl 7y ago

savolai 7y ago

I'd love to be able to import data from my ReMarkable tablet to this.

thismyrealone 7y ago

Yeah, I was hoping to be able to upload an image of my writing to try it out. Trying to work the touchpad or even a digital draw tablet to some extent isn't really an accurate representation.

noteness 7y ago

You take picture of your handwriting and upload it, for this site: https://www.calligraphr.com/ https://www.calligraphr.com/ They used to be myscriptfont.com and didn't have those premium features though. Don't know if it is better or worse.

prawn 7y ago
I've used this to create a font for an app and it works well, given the effort it asks of you (not much!). It gives you a grid to print and then scrawl each letter. I brought the grid into my iPad, wrote over the top with an Apple Pencil, and then uploaded that. Here's what the grid with my handwriting looks like: https://imgur.com/a/urulzby https://imgur.com/a/urulzby
- cerberusss 7y ago
  I found it actually quite hard to write exactly between the lines. I used an iPad, like you. When I upload the resulting PDF, it doesn't look great because the letters not on the same horizontal line. I tried to correct them and ran the procedure a second time, but it's going to take, in my estimation, at least an hour to get them just right. Not much for such a great tool, though. But in general, I find it a bit hard to neatly write on the iPad. It doesn't matter much, I just use it to keep track of notes while programming and designing software. And I can read it myself just fine. I think it's because the Pencil (version 1) feels more slippery than pen/paper while writing. The advantage of writing on the iPad though: no more paper.