Alright, it’s not new news but aparently it’s hot news again so I’m going to post it as a life hack. I’ve had several people in the last two days direct me to the handwriting font generator. For those who have never heard of it, this is a free (yes free) application that allows you to upload numbers, letters, punctuation, etc in your own handwriting and turn them into a usable font.
Seriously, within five minutes you can be emailing out PDFs that no one can read in your own script. It’s a great way to get even with your doctor at 70wpm next time you pay a bill.
If you’re really crafty though, you don’t actually need to design a handwriting font at all. This app will compress just about anything you design into a font, there are no limitations.
While this could easily be used to pirate a font (you know, just print each one onto the supplied template and generate it) I’m going to go ahead and suggest that you have better things to do with your time.
So anyhow, enjoy the brave new world of free custom fonts. Leave me a comment if you do something cool with it (that means you, Alyx).
Again, you can find it here.
