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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: 0s | source
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apparent ◴[05 Sep 25 20:24 UTC] No.45143208[source]▶
They say that you remember more when handwriting than when typing. I believe that. One thing I have wondered about is what if you write on a tablet and then it digitizes your handwriting. Do you still get the same benefit, from the process of having handwritten it?

I would think that part of the value would be in seeing the information written in your own handwriting, which makes me suspect that having a font like this that you could digitize into might be better than writing by hand (whic probably provides some of the memory boost) and then digitizing into a traditional font.

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gxs ◴[06 Sep 25 00:09 UTC] No.45145199[source]▶
This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience

I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand

It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get super fidgety

Not to mention my handwriting stinks

For me it’s a lot easier to remember when I’m fully immersed and processing ideas vs tediously writing

I do think this is probably just lack of handwriting skill - I definitely learned all this in school and took handwritten notes most of my life, but I suspect I never did it right back then

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1. globular-toast ◴[06 Sep 25 07:14 UTC] No.45147278[source]▶
Your handwriting skills are due to lack of practice. You weren't born typing at 121wpm.

I prefer typing for anything longer than a few words. But I can't type a picture (despite things like Mermaid and PlantUML) being useful.

I make extensive use of paper (and whiteboards if I'm sharing) for making pictures, mostly graph-like things such as flow diagrams, sequences, ERD etc. I feel somewhat "disabled" if I'm forced to just screen technology to do it (although Excalidraw is pretty good).

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2. KaiserPro ◴[06 Sep 25 18:22 UTC] No.45151640[source]▶
> Your handwriting skills are due to lack of practice.

I mean thats a broad generalisation. As someone who spent a lot of time in remedial English, I don't think thats actually true.

Typing enabled me to go to uni. It turns out that actually I'm shit at handwriting rather than english.

Ironically I have a wacom tablet as a pointer device, because its faster than a mouse.

3. gxs ◴[07 Sep 25 02:05 UTC] No.45154723[source]▶
I don’t know man, my point was more than I probably don’t lean the actual skill of writing fast, it wasn’t necessary lack of practice

All through college I had to write extensively and still never got anywhere near that speed

I do wonder about raw limits - unless you learn a specific shorthand, I can’t imagine writing out the word “something” faster than I can type it - unless as an example I used sm instead