Handwriting Font

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Capture settings

Writing

Size

Surface

Ink

Input

Auto ignores fingers on the page once an Apple Pencil is seen (palm rejection). On the page, a two-finger tap undoes, three fingers redo.

Guides

Style

shade x-height zone cell dividers

Slant lines

Proportions

Ascender

Cap height

Descender

Heights are in x-heights above/below the baseline. Every sample stores the guide geometry it was written in, so you can change this at any time.

Prompts

Letter combinations

Versions per prompt

Letters

Marks

Combinations

Letters = letters, digits & accents. Marks = punctuation & symbols. More versions give the font alternates to pick from.

Font

Name

Author

License

Glyphs

Main version

Seed

Other versions as alternates (a.alt1 …) Combinations as ligatures (th → t_h) Kerning pairs from combinations

A ★ on a sample in Review always makes it the main version.

Detail

Output

Detail

Smoothing

Rounding

Decimals

Metrics units · em = 1000

Cap height

Spacing

Side bearing

Word space

Slant

Snap letters without descenders to the baseline

Export

Single-stroke SVG 1.1 font, same format as the Hershey / EMS fonts. In Inkscape use Extensions → Text → Hershey Text, pick Other as font face and give the path to the file.

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Current session

Name

Sessions

Import

Mode

Restores a session exported from this tool. Merging appends the samples as extra versions of each prompt.

Storage on this device

Samples are saved to IndexedDB after every stroke — no server involved. Browsers may still clear site data (Safari after weeks without a visit, unless storage is persistent), and an iPad Home Screen web app keeps its own storage, separate from Safari tabs. Export a backup now and then; import moves it between devices.

Export format

Raw, lossless pen data: nothing is simplified until font export.

{ "format": "dxviie.handwriting-font", "version": 1,
  "session": { "name", "capture": {…guide & prompt settings}, "font": {…}, "preview": {…} },
  "fields": ["x","y","t","p","tiltX","tiltY","twist","altitude","azimuth"],
  "samples": [ { "key": "a" | "th" | …, "slot": 0, "created": epoch-ms, "starred": false,
      "guide": { "xh", "asc", "cap", "desc" (CSS px from the baseline), "slant" (deg) },
      "origin": { "x", "y" } (cell origin on the page, CSS px), "cellW", "viewport": { "w", "h", "dpr" },
      "strokes": [ { "type": "pen" | "touch" | "mouse", "t0": epoch-ms, "n": points,
                     "pts": [x, y, t, p, tiltX, tiltY, twist, altitude, azimuth,  x, y, …] } ] } ] }

x → right, y → down, in CSS px relative to the cell origin on the baseline; t in ms since t0;
p = pressure 0–1; tilt in degrees; altitude/azimuth in radians (null where the browser has none).
Font units: X = x · (capUnits / guide.cap), Y = −y · (capUnits / guide.cap).