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The idea is cool, but, well:

"No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."

The instructions say that rows 2 and 3 in the template can be either lower or upper case. How does the website determine the case in those rows? Does it simply check if row 1 looks different from the other rows?
You configure that in the Configuration section. ;)
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
>how I and most people I know write.

I do not know a single person who writes any cursive outside their signature.

I've used iFontMaker for this on the iPad - quite amusing to be able to select my own monospaced font for terminals (even if it is just "old man traced over Courier Prime badly".)

Will definitely give this a go with various pens to see how that affects the outcome.

new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !
There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.

Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.

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Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?

Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

Please try again? I fixed a couple of snags. Use your same template?
Not sure it would work in my case. I do love to take the very different freedom it brings. For example the mid bars of a t is often taken as an opportunity to go through above the whole word. But I wouldn't do it every single time, as it would feel too much overload.

I also don't write the same way on a post it ready to throw than in my little personal aphorism book, where I try to craft something where the form connects with the intended meaning.

Turning my handwriting into a font is akin to encrypt the text :-D
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That'll be the ugliest font.
This works mostly for the US, where people don't write in cursive.
Can I turn a real font into my handwriting?
A wise doctor once typed…
Chris Pirillo. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.. a long time.
OMG Yes! Dating ourselves aren't we? Pirillo, Laporte, Dvorak - awesome folks from Tech TV
Tried it, it failed at the first hurdle, which is scanning the glyphs correctly. Seems to be an offset somewhere as they get shifted vertically.
Please, try again. I pushed a few fixes out this afternoon.
My hand writing is so bad I don't know if a really want a font out of it lol (love the project though!)
Well I really don't like my handwriting, would rather avoid it
Awesome! For anyone that think doctors' handwriting is unintelligible, wait till I give that thing a spin
My 3rd grade teacher wrote something like this regarding my handwriting in my final report card:

We've done all we can for toast0. But he'll have a secretary so it'll be fine

I never did get to have a secretary, but thanks to COVID learning losses, I do manage to have a lot better penmanship than about half of kids going into high school this year. :)

A sign of how irrelevant handwriting became is that there are no popular AI models that aim at cloning it, even though it should be fairly easy.
I'm dysgraphic with a small essential tremor, and often write in a hybrid between cursive & block gothic. I'd need to make a few dozen different fonts & have it randomly pick between them for each letter to look like my handwriting.

My drafting lettering is OK. But it's much, much slower & requires a straightedge, multiple thickness pencils, an eraser shield, and an eraser.

Not great for doctors
Had to dig to find this but back in 2009 I was bored so I made a font based of my handwriting. I had a Wacom tablet and used this font creator- I'm pretty sure it was called Fontographer. Anyways it's still floating around the Internet: https://fontmeme.com/fonts/mattfont-font/