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Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font by varun_ch on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#47312935)
The website does say that it was ‘vibe coded’[0] so perhaps the author didn’t test it very thoroughly? They apparently do ‘vibe coding’ courses so.. that’s something.

[0] https://arcade.pirillo.com/

Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font by rustyhancock on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:45PM (#47313520)
It's really impressive for what it is.

I tried it various pens and paper sizes and printer scales. And it suddenly worked but only if scanned at low res (200DPI).

Still I got a partially working font at the end

Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font by varun_ch on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:11PM (#47318352)
For sure! I was so surprised to see that this was done all in browser. I mean there’s no reason that shouldn’t be possible in 2026 considering there’s services that do this server side, but still it’s always impressive when something like this comes along.
Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font by ChrisPirillo on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:38PM (#47318160)
It's not a course.

What I do is free and intended to be workshops for non-technical users to understand the power of technology rather than slamming it in their face.

Re:Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font by siliconpotato on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:45AM (#47322508)
ugh. i came to see why this site failed completely to work as expected. turns out that a human has barely been anywhere near it and thinks that delivering non-working slop is fine. what a waste of my time and printer paper.