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You take picture of your handwriting and upload it, for this site: https://www.calligraphr.com/

They used to be myscriptfont.com and didn't have those premium features though. Don't know if it is better or worse.

I've used this to create a font for an app and it works well, given the effort it asks of you (not much!). It gives you a grid to print and then scrawl each letter. I brought the grid into my iPad, wrote over the top with an Apple Pencil, and then uploaded that. Here's what the grid with my handwriting looks like:

https://imgur.com/a/urulzby

I found it actually quite hard to write exactly between the lines. I used an iPad, like you. When I upload the resulting PDF, it doesn't look great because the letters not on the same horizontal line. I tried to correct them and ran the procedure a second time, but it's going to take, in my estimation, at least an hour to get them just right. Not much for such a great tool, though.

But in general, I find it a bit hard to neatly write on the iPad. It doesn't matter much, I just use it to keep track of notes while programming and designing software. And I can read it myself just fine.

I think it's because the Pencil (version 1) feels more slippery than pen/paper while writing.

The advantage of writing on the iPad though: no more paper.

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