Handwriting "Font"

[BillR]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

TIA,
BillR

 

[Rose]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

TIA,
BillR

There are quite a few sites that offer free handwriting fonts. Just
do an internet search for some of them.


Rose
http://members.aol.com/Roseb44170/home.html
"How in the heck did I ever get talked into this?"

 

[MAMEngineer]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

http://www.fontifier.com/

It isn't free, but at $9.00, it's well worth the admission.

 

[Susan Bugher]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

Dunno how well this will work but. . . scan a sample of your
handwriting and create an image file. There's a font identifier here:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Maybe you can get a find a close approximation. . . or at least have
some fun trying. . .

Susan

 

[Mike Dee]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a
few political letters that really will appear to be handwritten
-- i.e., I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually
sending a form letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look
like handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

Not trying to be rude, but wouldn't it look more realistic to write
your form letters by hand? Scan and print hard copies for posting to
your politicians, or save as PDF for posting as email attchments.

Or type your form letters with word processor and insert a scanned
hand-written signature to authenticate it?

 

[BillR]

Thanks for the quick responses. Free cursive fonts abound (thousands)
and I know there are cheap -- maybe even free -- offers to create a
personal font based on my individual handwriting but these are obvious
printed fonts. I don't care if the handwriting looks like mine, I just
want to create something that will pass cursory examination as
handwritten.

Mistral is MS's generic script font. It produces an obvious
psuedo-letter. I'm looking for something along the lines of a quirky
desktop publishing application that will have slightly uneven margins,
baselines, line spacings, etc., sufficient to make the letter look
handwritten even though it is page long.

For those who are not familiar with political office management,
letters and calls are tallied according to topic, position, and type.
A personally composed, handwritten, first class stamped missive is
weighted far more heavily than an equivalent form letter email that is
part of a storm stimulated by an interest group. In the (ancient)
1980's, one US congressional office assigned a handwritten original
content note a 10 and a photocopied form letter with an original
signature a 1 -- or less. This was a change from only a decade earlier
when an original typewritten letter was weighted even more than a
handwritten one.

I could resort to writing one fair copy with a few strategic blanks
that I complete later but I would like something a little more flexible
and less tedious. In particular, I like to include a reference
specific to each politician in the first and/or last sentence as that
almost by definition makes my letter count more as it is taken to
demonstrate an on-going/active interest.

TIA,
BillR

 

[s...]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

TIA,
BillR

Try this link:
http://eknp.com/fonts/handwriting1.php
Not only handwriting fonts, but more.
HOTH,
s...

 

[s...]

Try this link:
http://eknp.com/fonts/handwriting1.php
Not only handwriting fonts, but more.
HOTH,
s...

One more link, it has a lot more options:
http://www.free-fonts.com/handwriting_fonts.html
s...

 

[dszady]

Not trying to be rude, but wouldn't it look more realistic to write your
form letters by hand? Scan and print hard copies for posting to your
politicians, or save as PDF for posting as email attchments.

Or type your form letters with word processor and insert a scanned
hand-written signature to authenticate it?

Be rude. He can't hand sign a dozen political letters?

 

[Phnzupp]

Found this beautiful handwriting site and just thought I'd share.
http://www.fontgarden.com/gallery/a/a.html

 

[Paul Blarmy]

On 1 Mar 2005 16:01:07 -0800, BillR wrote...

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

Won't the problem with any handwriting font be that all the a's will look
the same as each other, all the b's, c's, d's etc etc? In an ideal world
what you would want is a font that has several different styles for each
character and inserts them randomly throughout the letter. Not something
that is available surely?

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 02 Mar 2005, BillR wrote

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a
few political letters that really will appear to be handwritten
-- i.e., I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually
sending a form letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look
like handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

Like Paul says, it sounds like a tall order to produce truly lifelike
handwriting, complete with /oxymoron alert/ regular irregularities.

(Anyway -- isn't a bit surreal trying to fool a politician into
thinking somethint's handwritten when it's not? (Or is that the point
of the exercise? FWIW, I thought that sort of deceit belonged on the
"from the politicians" side of the fence rather than "to the
politicians".)

 

[socrtwo]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

TIA,
BillR

http://www.stefan-pettersson.nu/site/bmpfont/ - it takes a lot of work,
but I've used this program to make a handwriting font of my mother's
handwriting and then create the image of the text written with it. It
may not be exactly what you were thinking of, but it will work.

 

[socrtwo]

Seeking a good freeware handwriting "font" program for writing a few
political letters that really will appear to be handwritten -- i.e.,
I want "credit" for a handwritten letter when actually sending a form
letter to a dozen politicians.

This isn't a simple font question. Ideally this really will look like
handwriting with all its inherent imperfections.

TIA,
BillR

http://www.stefan-pettersson.nu/site/bmpfont/ - it takes a lot of work,
but I've used this program to make a handwriting font of my mother's
handwriting and then create the image of the text written with it. It
may not be exactly what you were thinking of, but it will work.

 

[Matt]

On 1 Mar 2005 16:01:07 -0800, BillR wrote...


Won't the problem with any handwriting font be that all the a's will look
the same as each other, all the b's, c's, d's etc etc? In an ideal world
what you would want is a font that has several different styles for each
character and inserts them randomly throughout the letter. Not something
that is available surely?

Just what I was thinking, the other question being to pick a font with
the right degree of semi-legibility....
Some "handwriting fonts" represent high-class calligraphy, and are
more like the illustrations in a book on it.
Others are barely legible spider-scrawl.

http://www.fontgarden.com/gallery/c/c.html
That IS a good site, and a lot of the sentence sized samples, I'd
still believe were handwritten, though how it would stand up to
scrutiny of a whole page?

One possibility, find two or more similar fonts, and then use them in
progression from neatest down, or alternate between them for different
paragraphs.

 

[Nobody]

Thanks for the quick responses. Free cursive fonts abound (thousands)
and I know there are cheap -- maybe even free -- offers to create a
personal font based on my individual handwriting but these are obvious
printed fonts. I don't care if the handwriting looks like mine, I just
want to create something that will pass cursory examination as
handwritten.

Mistral is MS's generic script font. It produces an obvious
psuedo-letter. I'm looking for something along the lines of a quirky
desktop publishing application that will have slightly uneven margins,
baselines, line spacings, etc., sufficient to make the letter look
handwritten even though it is page long.

For those who are not familiar with political office management,
letters and calls are tallied according to topic, position, and type.
A personally composed, handwritten, first class stamped missive is
weighted far more heavily than an equivalent form letter email that is
part of a storm stimulated by an interest group. In the (ancient)
1980's, one US congressional office assigned a handwritten original
content note a 10 and a photocopied form letter with an original
signature a 1 -- or less. This was a change from only a decade earlier
when an original typewritten letter was weighted even more than a
handwritten one.

I could resort to writing one fair copy with a few strategic blanks
that I complete later but I would like something a little more flexible
and less tedious. In particular, I like to include a reference
specific to each politician in the first and/or last sentence as that
almost by definition makes my letter count more as it is taken to
demonstrate an on-going/active interest.

TIA,
BillR

It's available free. If you'd like never to be identified, you could
use Ransom.ttf which has a different font for each letter.

But then: the recipient needs to have it installed on their system too
if you're sending electronic mail. Try a google seach for it.

All that assumes, of course, the politician might be interested in
others' opinions.

Trevor

 

[DW]

It's available free. If you'd like never to be identified, you could
use Ransom.ttf which has a different font for each letter.

But then: the recipient needs to have it installed on their system too
if you're sending electronic mail. Try a google seach for it.

All that assumes, of course, the politician might be interested in
others' opinions.

Trevor

It is possible to embed a font into a document (thinking about Word
here) ... I did not realise it was not possible to do this for email.
Surely there must be a way !
MMMhhh ... is this also true of a Web Page (where I have set some
obscure font)?... I had not realised the ramifications of this.

Shows how easy it is to make incorrect assumptions !

DW

 

[Onno Tasler]

DW scribebat:

It is possible to embed a font into a document (thinking about Word
here) ... I did not realise it was not possible to do this for email.

E-Mail is plain text only, you cannot put *any* information into it the
recipient could not disable. If you want to send a file with a certain
layout and font without changes, use PDF or a picture format (GIF or PNG)

Of course, you could attach the file you want to send to an e-mail.