Pilot Handwriting


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Turn your handwriting into a font! Pilot Pens asks you to use your ink pen at least once more to write out your letters, then feed them into their font generator. Download your personal font, and then you can type with your own handwriting! Link -via Core77 -Thanks, Senor Mysterioso!

This website frustrated the hell out of me. After struggling to get the program to read my print off template, I found that you can't use it as a normal font e.g. Times New Roman. You can only type emails in your handwriting....can't even copy and paste. I resorted to: mac command, shift, 4 to select my typing and make a screenshot.
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I type so that things WON'T be in my own handwriting. Years of being a waitress, writing quickly for no one but myself to read, ruined my writing.

However, I wonder if there was a way to make this work so that I could preserve someone else's handwriting. Think about your grandmother's or great grandmother's beautiful script. Wouldn't it be great to be able to correspond in that font?
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I was once subject to horror stories about my future unemployability due to my atrocious handwriting, but then we got an Amiga 1000 and my days of fretting over my handwriting-stunted job prospects were behind me.

I still can't write neatly, never could.

ANYways, the other question is, can you use this font in other apps? The video only shows it being used in their app.
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I tried it and have to agree that the program is frustrating. I didn't even get as far as using it because even with the ability to modify, it didn't really pick up on the writing very well. Mind you, I did it twice, my scanner is brand new, I used a high resolution, and have very neat handwriting. Maybe I did something wrong, which is not at all out of the realm of possibility, but after about an hour of fiddling with it, I gave up.
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These free/cheap handwriting font-makers often look good on the surface, but tend to lack the precision and flow an actual, human typographer can impart — which is fitting, eh?

I used Chank Diesel's https://www.chank.com/gofontyourself/ The price is $200 now (up from $150 when I used it) but Chank's has a lot of experience and the final result, complete with *kerning* you won't get in lesser "solutions", shows. I gave one round of feedback because the pen marks naturally left some odd imperfections and Chank fixed them quickly.
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