About HandScript
HandScript turns a phone photo of your handwriting into a real, installable font — TTF, OTF and WOFF2 — that you can install on your computer and type with in ordinary apps and on websites. It is made by Dave, the founder, and operated by TrustCore Systems. Making and previewing a font is free; downloading one is $9, once.
Not to be confused with the pre-made typefaces named Handscript on font marketplaces — those are by designers unrelated to us. This is a tool that makes a font from your writing.
What HandScript is
The short, factual version — every line here is backed by the product, the terms or the privacy policy.
A font maker, not a font
You print a one-page template, fill in a box for each of the 95 printable characters (the space needs no writing), photograph it, and get a font file built from your own strokes. Nothing pre-made is involved.
Real files, standard formats
TTF, OTF and WOFF2 — installable on Mac, Windows and Linux, usable in Word, Pages, Photoshop, Procreate, Cricut Design Space on desktop, and on websites.
Free until you've seen it
The preview sheet shows every character before you pay. If it isn't right, reshoot and try again; only the download costs money.
Live since May 2026
The first fonts were made in May 2026; paid downloads and the refund policy arrived in September 2026. Memorial fonts — from photos of a loved one's letters — exist but aren't open yet. It can also be used to type your signature and sign-offs in your own hand.
How it's built
Plain tools, described step by step, so you know what happens to your photo.
The pipeline
An AI vision model (Anthropic's Claude) finds the four corner marks in your photo. The page is perspective-corrected, everything outside the boxes is masked to white, each box is cropped and thresholded to ink, potrace traces the ink into vector outlines, and FontForge assembles the outlines into the font files; a separate step then typesets the preview sheet with the new font. Under a minute, usually less. The full photo-to-font walk-through is on the homepage.
The stack
Next.js on Vercel for the site; a Node worker with FontForge and potrace on Railway for font building; Supabase for accounts, database and file storage; Stripe for payments; Anthropic's API for the vision step; Google Analytics for anonymous page statistics. These are the companies that process your uploads and account data; the complete list, including how support email is routed, is in the privacy policy.
What we don't do
No fake reviews or numbers
There are no testimonials or star ratings on this site because we don't have real ones yet. When we do, they'll be from real customers, shown with their permission.
No selling your data
We don't sell it, share it for advertising, or train anything on it. Your photos and fonts are private to your account and deleted on request (see the privacy policy for what Stripe keeps for tax records).
No subscriptions, no lock-in
$9, once, buys the files for your personal projects — install them anywhere, keep them, no account needed to use them. Commercial use: email us first (see the license in the terms).
No forgery help
Only handwriting that's yours or that you have the right to use. Imitating someone's writing or signature to deceive is against the terms, and we may suspend accounts that do.
Contact
One inbox, read by the founder.
Support and refunds
support@handscript.app — we aim to reply within two business days. Refund policy
Privacy and deletion
Same address, from your account's email. What we collect and why
Who runs it
HandScript is operated by TrustCore Systems. Terms of service
Questions about HandScript itself
Is HandScript the same as the “Handscript” font I've seen on font sites?
No. There are pre-made typefaces named Handscript on font marketplaces (a brush script and similar), by designers unrelated to us; we have no connection to those fonts or their authors. HandScript (handscript.app) is a tool: it makes a new font from a photo of your handwriting.
Who is behind it?
Dave, the founder; the site is operated by TrustCore Systems. He designed the template and built the photo-to-glyph pipeline (with AI coding tools), and reads the support inbox. HandScript's only income is the $9 downloads; there are no ads and no data sales.
How does it make money?
One way: $9 per font when you download the files, paid once through Stripe. Making a font and checking every character on the preview sheet is free, so you never pay for a font you haven't seen. There is no subscription, no ads, and we don't sell your data or share it for advertising. Pricing and refunds
What does the AI actually do?
Less than you might think. For a template font, an AI vision model (Anthropic's Claude) is shown the four corners of your photo and asked to find the registration squares — that's it. Straightening the page, cutting out each box, tracing the ink (potrace) and building the font (FontForge) are ordinary, deterministic image and font tools. The memorial process, which has to find characters on a page that was never a template, leans on the model much more and isn't reliable enough yet — which is why it isn't open.
Where does my data go?
Your account, photos and fonts live in Supabase; the site runs on Vercel and the font builder on Railway; payments go to Stripe; the corner-finding (or, for memorial fonts, character-finding) goes to Anthropic's API; Google Analytics collects anonymous page statistics; and email to our support address passes through Cloudflare to a Google mailbox. The full list is in the privacy policy. Email us from your account's address and we delete your account, photos and fonts; the payment records we're required to keep for tax purposes stay with Stripe.
How do I reach a person?
support@handscript.app. Support, refunds, deletion requests, licensing questions — it's the same inbox, and we aim to reply within two business days.
This page was drafted with AI assistance and checked against the code, the terms and the privacy policy; Dave is responsible for it.