Creating a handwritten TrueType font in Linux (2018)

Thank you for pointing to this resource. I must say, I had not been aware of this market, and I find it quite fascinating for more than one reason.

From what I have gathered, this service is not local-only, but involves both submitting samples and using their web application.

How do you feel about another entity having access to your handwriting as a high-quality font, which in turn could at least in theory be used to possibly impersonate you by them or anyone gaining access to it?

And how do you feel about having to enter all text you want to pseudo handwrite into their web application?

Or maybe I misunderstood how it works? Didn't do a deep dive.

One thing you can do is use ligatures so that specfic combinations of letters look different. It won't be random, but at least there'll be variation.

E.g. 'A' followed by 'n' could have one ligature that looks like "An", and 'A' followed by 't' could have another ligature that looks like "At" where the A part is different (and the 't' too, of course).

Edit: here's an article about the concept: https://terrianncreative.com/using-ligatures-to-enhance-hand...

Open Type allows it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dotnet/n...

> Is there any way to have more glyphs for the same letter and choose one randomly?

Have the human write down not 1 but 50 times the font to be scanned and create 50 fonts.

Then pick one of these 50 fonts at random for each character.

I'd say that'd be the absolute simplest way (although not the most bandwith efficient).

I accidentally installed this on Gentoo once when I was looking for a decent CJK font. Little did I know, somehow it was set system-wide as the default CJK font, and I couldn't reverse it. I lived for about a year at my PC seeing all CJK text in this font, which got a little grating after a couple of months.