FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

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In the browser?! No data is transmitted to the server? Wow! Have not checked if this is correct... But... Stunning!

#fonts #handwriting

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html

#HackerNews #Fontcrafter #Handwriting #Font #Creation #Typography #Design #CustomFonts

Cool History Fact of the night

Before woodblock printing (which was extensively used in China well before the west), there was a very clever, effective way to mass-reproduce the most important texts.

A few different times in imperial China, stone tablets of the most important books were commissioned. Anyone could walk up and look at them, but more importantly: anyone could lay a wet piece of paper over them and then gently rub ink over the paper, which would create a copy of white text on a black background.(And unlike printing, nothing needs to be done backwards.)

And if you were a famous enough calligrapher, you'd be asked to write onto a stone so someone else could chisel out your handwriting exactly, and then copies could be mass-reproduced as teaching examples.

(and I'm fascinated by how the stone fragment here is 1800 years old but the writing style is already extremely legible to me. It still uses the X-style 五 but is otherwise very Normal)

#classicalchinese #typography #printing #handwriting

The other night I was reading Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship (1866). In it, the author suggests thinning your iron gull ink with coffee or tea instead of water so it doesn’t go grey. I’m guessing this is so it keeps its acidity levels. I don’t usually use iron gull, but if you do have you tried this?

#calligraphy #spencerian #ink #irongull #handwriting #history

#NewInkDay: Diamine Hope Pink in the Lamy 2000. Went for "Still I Rise" by Mary Angelou.

An unapologetic poem, vibrant with life, to go with a audaciously pink ink.

I think the world would be a better place if we all learned to laugh like we've got gold mines diggin' in our own backyards.

#Fountainpens #Ink #Handwriting #Poetry #MayaAngelou

I keep going back to the #handwriting of a I found in a museum. A woman in Spain wrote this hundreds of years ago. 

I'm going to use this as my model.
#calligraphy

AZIZ | AI (@aziz4ai)

작성자는 Google Arabia의 Gemini에서 'Nano Banana 2'를 사용해 자유로운 손글씨(라인 드로잉)를 기반으로 텍스트에 어울리는 장면을 창의적으로 생성했다고 보고합니다. 손글씨(자유선) 입력을 활용해 상상력을 바탕으로 놀라운 결과물을 만들 수 있으며, 이 인터랙션 방식이 열린 가능성을 제공한다고 평가합니다.

https://x.com/aziz4ai/status/2028002859254464679

#google #gemini #nanobanana2 #creativeai #handwriting