Obviously, too, the contents of your template determine which things you're going to need to write out by hand. (But don't worry-you can spend as little as 10 seconds if you're impatient or detail-shy.) In Calligraphr, the purpose of the Template screen is to let you pick what you're including in the font you're making. In short: your 'template' is the complete set of glyphs that will be included in your font. Only seemed fair to mention it since we've sniped a couple of their images. While frankly we'd rather you stay on this page, their tutorials are pretty good too. Once you confirm your account, you'll be given these options:

Start the App (or Read the Tutorial, Even Though You're Already Reading This One) As we mentioned elsewhere, we've all spent dumber money than that. (2) It's eight bucks. Eight bucks and you get everything we're about to show you. We're happy to give them less money-so much that we're featuring them here without even talking to them first. (1) They know you're not going to use it forever-and they charge accordingly. You can pay $8 for 1-month access or $24 for 6-month access. Still, there are two reasons we felt good about paying for it: You have enough space to start using Calligraphr for free, but there is a noticeable ceiling before you have to pay. If you're doing the math, you're noticing that the basic (English) alphabet is 52 glyphs even without digits, punctuation, accented characters, and the other things you forget you write with. You can use Calligraphr for free, but a couple extra features are blocked, and any font you create is capped at 75 glyphs. You're wondering: (when) does money get involved? Good question. Click the link in their email to confirm your account. you might also be witnessing how robots start forging our signatures.)Ĭomplete the 15-second sign-up process. Same as always. We'll walk through the whole hand-to-font process, start to finish, so that you can see how it's done for yourself. The longer answer is the rest of this post. And because handwriting is (indirectly but still) a part of our business, we were damn curious to know how it'd turn out. It's a website that allows you to transform your real handwriting into a fully-functional computer font. The latest tech thingy we're showcasing is called Calligraphr. On this blog, it always feels risky to talk about technology because there's a chance we'll doom ourselves to irrelevance.

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