Your Own Handwriting Font- $9

[cheapherk]

Saw this in the latest issue of Popular Science. Get a TT font in your own handwriting. Very cool- Fontifier

 

[VTHodge]

Cool, but a little pricey for what you get. I would do it for $1 or $2.

 

[Scarpozzi]

That is a cool idea.... I guess it would have some application somewhere....

 

[Mr N8]

Cool! A font that nobody can read!

 

[fitzov]

sounds like it would be handy for signing and faxing legal documents without having to print them out, sign them, and either scanning them or using a real fax machine.

 

[kwo]

Originally posted by: Mr N8
Cool! A font that nobody can read!

:laugh: exactly my thought! :laugh:

 

[dsfunk]

too bad my writing sucks

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: kwo

Originally posted by: Mr N8
Cool! A font that nobody can read!

:laugh: exactly my thought! :laugh:

Me three! Doctors got nothing on me!

 

[gshock888]

good now i can throw away all my pens

 

[kensplace]

Last year this site offered this for free...participated but never used the fonts but it was interesting

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: kwo

Originally posted by: Mr N8
Cool! A font that nobody can read!

:laugh: exactly my thought! :laugh:

same here. I can't even read my notes in college

 

[shoplifter]

are there any printers out there that can write/draw? otherwise the handwriting font will look fake when used along with an ink/toner printer. is it a plotter (never used one myself) what I'm looking for?

 

[whatsyourdeal]

It is kind of a cool deal.. but I'm with most.. i write like I have a hook for a hand. SO for me this would be the gibberish font

 

[bigfil]

Originally posted by: fitzov
sounds like it would be handy for signing and faxing legal documents without having to print them out, sign them, and either scanning them or using a real fax machine.

thats what im sayin mannnn

 

[lnvisible1]

Originally posted by: shoplifter
are there any printers out there that can write/draw? otherwise the handwriting font will look fake when used along with an ink/toner printer. is it a plotter (never used one myself) what I'm looking for?

yes there are plotters that will 'draw'. i know HP makes one.

 

[ww4397]

I don't want anyone to have access to my handwriting. What do these guys do with "your" font once it has been created? Do you receive the one, and only, copy of it?

 

[sparkyclarky]

Pretty darn cool

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: Mr N8
Cool! A font that nobody can read!

 

[mannydx]

i will name my font pgp chicken scratch, it would be high quality personal encryption

 

[moshquerade]

what's up with poor penmanship? illegible writing is worthless. doctors/anyone who scribbles is trying to prove what?

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: ww4397
I don't want anyone to have access to my handwriting. What do these guys do with "your" font once it has been created? Do you receive the one, and only, copy of it?

True. That's why I wouldn't do it. Well, besides the obvious that has already been pointed out, nobody could read it in it's native font. I'd say it'd be a good 'encryption' scheme except you just need to CTRL-A and pick a new font to get around that. Not that it wouldn't stop anyone who wanted to from obtaining some of my handwriting and doing this themselves.

I do suppose you could tell this apart from actual handwriting because all the letters would be identical, whereas when I'm writing an a in one word may look different from an a in another.

I don't use my handwriting font to do my signature so you wouldn't be able to fake it that way.

I guess it'd be pretty safe, still, one less thing I'd want out on the net so I wouldn't do this even if it were (still) free.

 

[ouzome]

There is a free Windows Power Tool / Toy that lets you do this exact same thing with a Tablet PC, but the tablet cost more than $7.