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How to turn a handwriting photo into a font with Claude Code with Draw Your Font

Photograph your letters, let Claude find and label them, then iterate on the font by chatting.

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  • Intermediate
  • 30 minutes
  • From the README
  • Claude Code

Who it is forA designer or hobbyist with a notebook full of hand lettering who wants a usable font without learning font tools.

The problemTurning handwritten letters into a real font usually means manual tracing and specialized font editors.

The outcomeAn installable TTF, WOFF, or WOFF2 font built from one photo, previewed and refined through conversation.

What you need first

  • Node.js 18 or newer installed
  • A photo of your handwritten alphabet on paper, or a printed template filled in by hand
  • Claude Code installed if you want the skill route; the CLI works without it

Steps

  1. Draw your alphabet on paper and take one clear photo of it.
  2. Run npx skills add danilo-znamerovszkij/draw-your-font to install the skill.
  3. In Claude Code, invoke /draw-your-font and attach the photo with a request such as "make my font".
  4. Review the preview and ask for changes such as "make it rounder" or "a bit bolder".
  5. Ask for the formats you need, such as "give me woff2 + css for my website".

Prompt for your agent

Use the draw-your-font skill from the danilo-znamerovszkij/draw-your-font repo on the photo at <photo-path>. Build a font from the handwritten letters and save the TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2 files to <output-dir>. Verify that the preview renders the letters A, a, and g correctly before reporting the output files.

Caveat. The README says the skill finds letters with vision, so messy or dim photos may need a re-shoot, and kerning and ligatures are planned for v2.

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