Scanahand

[Opera Fan™]

Scanahand is a new product from High-Logic. It makes it easy to create Windows Truetype fonts from your handwriting. Print the template, fill it in, run it through Scanahand, and save your font.

Read my full review.

Learning how to fill in the template may take more than five minutes, but once you know how, it really does take only five minutes to create a font — assuming that your handwriting is worth making into a font that is.

Getting Started

Step 1: Print out the template, with a green guideline for the baseline if you have a colour printer.

Step 2: Fill in the template using a suitable pen, place it on your scanner and scan it into the program.

Step 3: Click on Generate, give your font a name, and your font will be generated in about forty seconds. Save the font and install it.

Filling-in the Template

This is not so easy to do well. Anyone who can write can make a font, but making one worth keeping needs some practice. Don’t spend too long with your first attempt, you will probably take at least three or four attempts to get a satisfactory result.

[Echilon]

I'd love to make a font of my handwriting. It's on the list of things to do before I die. ;)

[Asphodel]

Hey that sounds like a cool thing. Would be fun to make a font out of my best day handwriting (not one of those days handwriting when it's illegible LOL). Thanks for the review!