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My handwriting is illegible (except by me for two weeks at most), I don't want to make a font that's just as impossible to read.

Aloha 7y ago
Yeah - same deal here - and I suspect for most engineers this is true
Diederich 7y ago
Could it be used as a source of entropy for cryptographic purposes?
- basementcat 7y ago
  Or a mechanism to transmit prescription drug parameters.
- JoshTriplett 7y ago
  I've often described my "signature" as "more of a one-time pad than a signature". I honestly find it shocking that anything in the modern world still considers a signature as any form of authentication whatsoever. (Nobody actually compares the signatures, and yet somehow people see signing as meaningful.)
  - abraae 7y ago
    You are probably thinking of the experience in e.g restaurants in the US. In our business, we very much do verify signatures. The primary goal is to establish whether the signatures are intended to be the same - not as some kind of forgery detector.
  - penagwin 7y ago
    When you sign for a credit card it's so the company can show you the signature if you think it might be fraud (forgot but recognize your signature) They're also useful for acknowledgements in paper work. They aren't for authenticating that you're you, they're just extra information.
warent 7y ago
This is very relatable. My handwriting has all kinds of problems. It's like I tried to take all the best parts of cursive and print, and combine them into a perfect in-between style. Unfortunately the result is as far from perfect as I think any handwriting can be. It looks like a combination between Elvish handwriting and the stuff you can find in the Voynich manuscript, but with all the elegance of Gregg Shorthand. I've somehow developed all kinds of weird habits. For example, beginning all my lines from the top and drawing down, or looping letter tails (like g and y) well beyond the line below them. My ~90-100 WPM typing speed makes me feel okay about all this though because it's pretty rare that handwriting has much practical application these days.
- thequux 7y ago
  Interesting; I made the same attempt, but based it off of italics and then got sloppy so that it would look like cursive to a teacher that refused to accept printed homework. All of my lines start from the top, my descenders and ascenders are huge to compensate for the miniscule x-height, and my "f" is an "l" with a "y"-style loop on it. (The "f" started out as a long "s" with a line through it; the line ended up joining up with the bottom of the "s" and then the curve at the top withered away) It turns out that it looks reasonably nice in a font[1] (except for my horrible keming) because most of the ugliness came from the characters all being irregular. [1]: https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e
neogodless 7y ago
My handwriting is a little better than my mouse handwriting, but yeah - this is the result: https://imgur.com/a/Camxez9 https://imgur.com/a/Camxez9

Aloha 7y ago

Yeah - same deal here - and I suspect for most engineers this is true

Diederich 7y ago

Could it be used as a source of entropy for cryptographic purposes?

basementcat 7y ago
Or a mechanism to transmit prescription drug parameters.
JoshTriplett 7y ago
I've often described my "signature" as "more of a one-time pad than a signature". I honestly find it shocking that anything in the modern world still considers a signature as any form of authentication whatsoever. (Nobody actually compares the signatures, and yet somehow people see signing as meaningful.)
- abraae 7y ago
  You are probably thinking of the experience in e.g restaurants in the US. In our business, we very much do verify signatures. The primary goal is to establish whether the signatures are intended to be the same - not as some kind of forgery detector.
- penagwin 7y ago
  When you sign for a credit card it's so the company can show you the signature if you think it might be fraud (forgot but recognize your signature) They're also useful for acknowledgements in paper work. They aren't for authenticating that you're you, they're just extra information.

warent 7y ago

This is very relatable. My handwriting has all kinds of problems. It's like I tried to take all the best parts of cursive and print, and combine them into a perfect in-between style. Unfortunately the result is as far from perfect as I think any handwriting can be. It looks like a combination between Elvish handwriting and the stuff you can find in the Voynich manuscript, but with all the elegance of Gregg Shorthand. I've somehow developed all kinds of weird habits. For example, beginning all my lines from the top and drawing down, or looping letter tails (like g and y) well beyond the line below them. My ~90-100 WPM typing speed makes me feel okay about all this though because it's pretty rare that handwriting has much practical application these days.

thequux 7y ago
Interesting; I made the same attempt, but based it off of italics and then got sloppy so that it would look like cursive to a teacher that refused to accept printed homework. All of my lines start from the top, my descenders and ascenders are huge to compensate for the miniscule x-height, and my "f" is an "l" with a "y"-style loop on it. (The "f" started out as a long "s" with a line through it; the line ended up joining up with the bottom of the "s" and then the curve at the top withered away) It turns out that it looks reasonably nice in a font[1] (except for my horrible keming) because most of the ugliness came from the characters all being irregular. [1]: https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e https://imgur.com/a/cggDt6e

neogodless 7y ago

My handwriting is a little better than my mouse handwriting, but yeah - this is the result: https://imgur.com/a/Camxez9 https://imgur.com/a/Camxez9