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Does anyone know of a place where you can create your own handwritten font for free? I used to use http://www.yourfonts.com/, but now they want money. Is there some sort of free, downloadable tool to do this?

BTW: There are some online programs that allow the user to create a font using a mouse. (See this question). Very cool. But, I want something that can take a scan and turn it into a font file.

Any ideas?

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Ooh, I want to know too! – Maxim Zaslavsky Nov 3 '09 at 4:09
Are you trying to scan something and just turn it into a raster font, or are you trying to make a decent quality vector font? – DaveParillo Nov 3 '09 at 5:38
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FontCapture is free. Print out the template, fill it out, scan it back in, and it'll give you a font file. It works similar to YourFonts when that was still free.

If you had read the first sentence of the other post you would have found it. ;)

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Nice. I wonder when the first such program appears which works decently with a Tablet PC so you can simply fill out the form directly on screen and get a high-quality vector outline font from digital ink :-). And the biggest complaint: Latin won't cut it anymore. What about Cyrillic, Greek, Math, nearly all of Unicode? ASCII is barely suitable for anything, sadly. – Joey Nov 3 '09 at 6:17
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Well, I think I'll update this question a little. FontCapture sends you to YourFonts and they charge $9.95 (plus $5.00 if you upload both template pages).

Fontifier is another alternative, but they charge $9. I would recommend YourFonts anyway.

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It used to be free. Bummer! – User1 Mar 23 '10 at 19:05
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alternativeto.net suggested http://www.myscriptfont.com/ --- a bit less characters, than at yourfonts.com, no Cyrillic/Unicode, but free for now

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