MyHandFont

MyHandFont: Font Maker for Android

Draw each letter on your phone and get a real TTF font of your handwriting. No ads, no account, no subscription.

Android app Coming to Google Play

The words "This font is my handwriting" set in a handwriting font made with MyHandFont, the last letter being drawn with a stylus.

Screenshots

Draw each letter. Finger or stylus. The drawing screen: a half-drawn letter g on the guide lines for small letters, the baseline and tails, with a faint g behind it.A sentence in your own hand. The preview screen: a sentence set in a handwriting font made in the app, with size, paper and spacing controls.Skip what you don't need. A font with 41 of 70 letters drawn: a progress ring reading 41 of 70 above a grid of handwritten letters.Share your writing as a GIF. The export screen playing an animated GIF that writes a sentence stroke by stroke, partway through.Export a real font file. The export screen: the font file card with its Export font button and install notes, then the animated GIF.Type with it on your computer. A laptop showing a letter typed in the handwriting font, and a printed card in the same font.Make as many fonts as you like. The fonts list with four fonts at different stages: 70, 41, 62 and 6 of 70 letters drawn.Free to draw and preview. Pay once to export. No ads, ever. The one-card paywall: export your font, a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

What it does

MyHandFont is a font maker for Android. It shows a large writing area with guide lines and a faint letter behind them. You write the letter with your finger or a stylus, the app smooths the stroke at the level you choose (Low, Medium or High) and shows it as part of a font, and you move on to the next. The template has 70 characters: the lowercase and uppercase alphabet, the digits and eight common marks. Eight more marks, such as the exclamation mark and the colon, are built from the ones you draw, and capitals you skip fall back to scaled-up lowercase, so a font made from the 26 lowercase letters alone already works.

From the first letter you draw, a sentence preview sets your own words in your letters at three sizes, on light or dark paper, with a spacing slider. Tap a letter in the preview to redraw it. When you are happy, export the font as a .ttf file. It installs on Windows and Mac for Word, Cricut Design Space and most design software, and uploads to Canva (on a plan with font uploads) and Procreate.

Who it is for

People who want their own handwriting on things they make: wedding and party invitations, planners and journals, labels, shop signs, school worksheets, stickers and Cricut projects. Teachers make a font of their board writing; families make one from a grandparent's careful copy of a recipe card. If you can write the alphabet on a phone, you can make the font, and the guides on the canvas keep the letters the same height without any design knowledge.

Free and paid

The purchase goes through your Google Play account and can be restored on a new phone with Restore purchases. The paywall only appears when you tap Export; everything before that is free.

Works offline, keeps your drawings on your phone

The app needs no internet connection to draw, preview or export. Your strokes and fonts are stored on your phone and never uploaded. To move a font to another phone, or to carry work over from the web version, use the project file (.myhandfont.json): export it from one, import it in the other.

Requirements

Not a keyboard

MyHandFont does not change the font of your phone or add a fancy-text keyboard. It makes a font file from your own handwriting for use on a computer, and images and GIFs of your writing to share from the phone.

Help and policies

Android app Coming to Google Play