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Handwrite - Type in your Handwriting!

Ever had those long-winded assignments, that the teacher always wants handwritten? Is your written work messy, cos you think faster than you can write? Now, you can finish them with the ease of typing in your own font!

Handwrite makes typing written assignments efficient, convenient and authentic.

Handwrite generates a custom font based on your handwriting sample, which can easily be used in text editors and word processors like Microsoft Word & Libre Office Word!

Handwrite is also helpful for those with dysgraphia.

You can get started with Handwrite here.

Sample

You just need to fill up a form:

Here's the end result!

Credits and Reference

  1. Potrace algorithm and package has been immensely helpful.

  2. Fontforge for packaging and adjusting font parameters.

  3. Sacha Chua's project proved to be a great reference for fontforge python.

  4. All credit for svgtottf converter goes to this project by pteromys. We made a quite a lot of modifications of our own, but the base script idea was derived from here.