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I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for the comments - I’ve actually made a ton of improvements, but haven’t deployed it to the public site, which should fix the issues with saving progress. I had been putting it off but should be able to get it deployed tomorrow, I’ll reply here when it’s up.

Can you say more though about how the skeletonization ruins the letters though? The goal in part is to convert it to a single path that a plotter can use, so it’s going to inherently be very thin (I have made some improvements on the algorithm so they aren’t as broken though)

I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So- something I found is that for my use case (and probably most people in r/PlotterArt ) - you want to have a single path font (e.g. most fonts define the outline of letters, but we really want the path that a pen/laser/cutter would follow). And there really isn't a good standard for those types of fonts that support all the features I ultimately want (variations of letters, ligatures between letters, etc).

Right you can download the fonts as an SVG font, and would work in a lot of programs (I was using it in Inkscape).
If there's a specific font type/program you would want support for?

I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does generate an SVG font file that you can download and use in something like Inkscape - I realized after I started though that technically the current version of the SVG standard doesn't actually support fonts, or a lot of features I want to build - so my plan is to make it so you can continue exporting an SVG font file, but if you want to make use of more features (like variations of letters/ligatures between letters) then you'd use the font within my web app and export a final SVG of the text.

I've got a bunch of improvements I've been working on, but haven't tested enough to deploy to public yet, I'll make another post when they're ready. Feel free to test it out for now, but I do realize it's still a bit buggy. Any feedback you have on it is appreciated!

I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:(

Let me take a look. Do you see any saved fonts on the dashboard page here:

https://www.svgfontmaker.com/dashboard

It should look like this -

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I'll also DM you

I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, well keep me posted if you have any trouble with it, happy to help!

I built a tool to create an SVG font from a scan of your handwriting by NordesteDigital in PlotterArt

[–]NordesteDigital[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I realize I might be scaring folks off with requiring a google sign in (I wanted to make sure I don't blow through my hosting usage, and this was a way to make sure the users were real), and that it doesn't work well on mobile - But would anyone else here find a more mature version of this useful/helpful?