I wrote my alphabet in a spiral notebook, took one photo in dim light, and got an installable TTF out the other end. My computer now can type in my handwriting. The whole thing is open source (MIT), runs locally, and works as three layers: an npm library, a CLI, and a Claude Code skill on top.

Repo: github.com/danilo-znamerovszkij/draw-your-font

Browser demo: danilo-znamerovszkij.github.io/draw-your-font/

This post is about why I built it and how the pipeline actually works.

Why I built it