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Making a font of my handwriting

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334 points kickofline | 3 comments | 05 Sep 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | source
1. pavel_lishin ◴[05 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45141890[source]▶
I wonder if there's any way to transform this approach taken by Amy Goodchild into actual font files: https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-jav...
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2. Gualdrapo ◴[05 Sep 25 19:57 UTC] No.45142929[source]▶
I'd bet it would be matter of "translating" those Chaikin's paths to Bézier. Then you could generate Metafont fonts from that, and from that you could get ttf, otf and whatnot.
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3. gucci-on-fleek ◴[05 Sep 25 20:44 UTC] No.45143379[source]▶
> Then you could generate Metafont fonts from that, and from that you could get ttf, otf

It's unfortunately not very easy to generate modern TTF/OTF fonts from Metafont sources. If you're careful to not use any crazy pens, you can compile with Metapost and then import the outlines into FontForge, but it's still fairly tricky to make everything work properly.