During the past couple of days I’ve been trying to catch up on the blogs that I read. The first item that caught my eye was shared with me by a friend — a link to FontCapture, a website that creates a font from your handwriting.

Now, I recently switched to a Tablet PC, and I’m fascinated with the ability to turn my handwriting into text. Clearly the next logical step is to turn text into my handwriting.

Using FontCapture was really easy with a Tablet PC, because instead of printing out the template and filling everything out by hand, I just opened it in OneNote and started writing in my letters. I was able to delete things and start over as often as I wanted, and when I was done all I had to do was upload the new image to the website and seconds later, my font had been created. I did all of this fairly quickly so the fonts are not perfect, but it definitely has potential.

Personally, I like to type in my handwriting font whenever I’m writing anything personal, creative, or long. Because it’s not as easy to read as the usual Times New Roman, it keeps me from going back and trying to edit before I’ve finished writing.

Here are my fonts, LesliePrints (my normal handwriting), and LeslieWrites (my attempt to see how a cursive font would work):

On a related note, I also found these two items of interest while pouring over the latest blog entries:

• ScienceDaily finds handwriting can be used to detect lies
• Google uses reCAPTCHA to teach computers to read