Comments on: Fontifier

Fontifier

Mwongozi — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:23:08 -0800

Fontifier will take a scan of your handwriting and turn it into a TrueType font.
...for $9.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:28:11 -0800

Oh, damn. I can't believe I didn't take advantage of this when it was free.

By: mkn

mkn — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:38:09 -0800

When did they start charging? Way to tease people there. Luckily, I got my crappy handwriting [.ttf] fontified before.

By: angry modem

angry modem — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:44:27 -0800

Hmm. I really like my own handwriting and think it actually would make a pretty decent font, so I might shell out for it.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:44:45 -0800

$9 still sounds hella-cheap for such a unique and personalized indulgence.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:47:00 -0800

monju, I was thinking the same thing.

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 06:47:18 -0800

Beware, I just tried it and the results are less than impressive. The preview it gives you isn't nearly big enough to judge the quality of the font, when I finally got mine downloaded, it turned out to be really jaggy and thin. If you're going to try it, use a pen that puts down plenty of ink.

By: aaronshaf

aaronshaf — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:04:19 -0800

Is there a freeware/shareware program on download.com or sourceforge.net that can do something similar?

By: dabitch

dabitch — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:09:06 -0800

You could always create your own handwriting font with Fontographer or similar software. Like Mwongozi says, it's rather jaggedy results that you can create better with decent software yourself, I was a tad disappointed even though i made a 'dabitch-font' for nil bucks.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:17:46 -0800

i think that i would like this, if i could get a good quality font out of it. i have quite a few samples of my mom's handwriting; i was in high school when she died. she always had very precise, neat printing, and i've thought for a long time that i would like to have some way of keeping that around for a while; a font was one thing i'd considered. specifically, she was a writer. she never had anything other than newspaper columns published, but there are several stories and books that she wrote for the family that i would like to print, with her handwriting, just to have. so, how hard is it to wrestle through fontographer (or similar) to get a decent TT font? and, more importantly, how much would it set me back to do so?

By: SpaceCadet

SpaceCadet — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:59:30 -0800

I decided to do it the other way around: I now handwrite in Eras Demi ITC. It saved me handing out $9 for my own handwriting font.

By: dawiz

dawiz — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:37:18 -0800

A quick search turned up this software: http://www.high-logic.com It's a Font Creator program with a trial download. Definately a lot more work to create your own font (basically, you have to do it letter by letter) -- but the result is a lot better -- and you can tweak it.

By: dawiz

dawiz — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:38:13 -0800

Oops... A link is probably better: The Font Creator Program

By: Grod

Grod — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:02:07 -0800

Send me a copy of your handwriting and $8.99 and I'll do the same thing for you. For an extra $20 bucks I'll throw in an Open Type Version or a Type 1. Multiple master will cost extra. I can also make a full range of weights based on your sample. I'm half joking. I can do this, have done this, might even be willing to do this for money but I don't have an automated process, so $9 would be buying a couple hours of my time if you can't live without it though, my e-mail is in my profile