Turn Your Super-Neat Handwriting Into a Computer Font

Here’s something perfect for those budding web-designers with a hobby of calligraphy. Using FontCapture.com in five simple steps you can take your beautiful handwriting and use it in your web designs without shelling out $200 dollars for a decent tablet thingy for free! :)

By now if you are not either drooling on your keyboard or sleeping on it you probably must be asking “How do I use this thing?” Its really easy.

Please note that you must have a scanner for this to work.

Step One

Go to www.fontcapture.com/template and print out the pdf file.

Step Two

Fill out the template you downloaded in step one.

Step Three

Scan the completed template as a gray-scale image with a resolution about 200dpi. Fix up and darken the image as necessary and re-save the image as either a GIF or a PNG.

Step Four

Go to www.fontcapture.com/upload, fill out the “Font Name” and “Author Name” fields than browse for your the image created in the last step and click upload.

Step Five

If the preview provided by FontCapture is what you want than click “download the font” and follow the provided installation instructions otherwise you may want to go back to step 3 and touch up your image some more.

A Sample FontCapture Preview

A Sample FontCapture Preview. Click to enlarge.


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