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FR-AI / ANALYSISWhy it is worth attention
It provides a unique, one-shot workflow: photograph your handwritten alphabet and instantly get an installable font, leveraging AI only for labeling while keeping vectorization deterministic and private.
Who it is for
- People who want to digitize their handwriting for personal use
- Graphic designers needing custom handwritten fonts
- Developers and tinkerers interested in font creation pipelines
- Hobbyists and educators looking for a free alternative to paid font services
Use cases
- Creating a personal handwritten font from a notebook photo
- Building a custom web font with WOFF2 and CSS for a website
- Rapidly prototyping a font for branding or invitations
- Learning about OCR, vectorization, and font generation pipelines
Strengths
- Fully local – no uploads, your handwriting stays on your machine
- Free and open source (MIT) with no hidden costs or credits
- Works with messy, real-world photos (bad lighting, shadows, spiral binding)
- Deterministic CLI can run without AI, relying only on user-provided labels
Considerations
- Output is a single‑variant font; kerning, ligatures, and letter randomization are planned for v2
- Requires Node.js 18+, so not suitable for systems without a recent Node runtime
- AI vision labeling (when used) depends on Claude and may introduce small errors that need fixing
README quick start
draw-your-font
Turn a photo of your handwriting into a real font (TTF/WOFF/WOFF2) - free, open source, no uploads, no credits.
Draw your alphabet on paper. Take a photo. Get your font.
This is a real one-shot result: dim light, spiral binding, page shadow. One photo in, installable font out.
Use it as a Claude Code skill (the fun way)
npx skills add danilo-znamerovszkij/draw-your-font
Then in Claude Code, invoke the skill and hand it your photo:
/draw-your-font "here's a photo of my handwriting - make my font" (drag the photo into the terminal)
Claude finds your letters in the photo, labels them with vision, builds the font, shows you a preview, and critiques its own work. Iterate by talking:
- "make it rounder" / "a bit bolder"
- "the g looks bad" - it shows you the crop and fixes or asks for a re-shoot
- "give me woff2 + css for my website"
- "how readable is it?" - a legibility score and the two worst letter pairs
No photo yet? Say "give me a font template" and you get a printable PDF grid: write your alphabet with a dark pen, photograph the pages, and hand them back. Messy freeform photos work too. Napkins, notebooks, spiral binding, bad lighting: that's what the vision step is for.
Everything runs locally on your machine. Your handwriting never leaves it.
Use it as a CLI (no AI at all)
The skill is a thin layer over a deterministic npm CLI. It works on its own when you can tell it what you wrote:
# freeform photo, you know the order you wrote in:
npx draw-your-font make photo.jpg --chars "ABCabc" --name "My Hand"
# → MyHand.ttf - double-click, install, done.
# best quality: print a template, fill it, photograph:
npx draw-your-font template -o template.pdf --charset minimal # or: spanish
npx draw-your-font make page1.jpg page2.jpg --charset minimal --name "My Hand"
Pure npm, zero system dependencies: no FontForge, no ImageMagick, no potrace binary. Works on macOS / Linux / Windows wherever Node ≥ 18 runs.
CLI reference
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
template | printable A4 PDF grid (--charset minimal|spanish) |
segment | find letters → crops + numbered contact sheet + blobs.json |
build | labeled crops → font (--labels / --chars / --charset) |
make | segment + build in one shot |
preview | render any text with the built font |
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Description
Turn a photo of your handwriting into a real font (TTF/WOFF/WOFF2) - free, open source, no uploads. Node CLI + Claude Code skill.
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