How to Make Your Own Font (From Your Handwriting) — Step by Step | MoFont
How to Make Your Own Font
The old answer was "learn FontForge and draw a few hundred Bézier curves." The modern answer is four steps and about an hour. Here's how to make your own font from your own handwriting — including a full Chinese font with thousands of glyphs you never have to draw.
Start making your font →The four steps
1. Write a small sample
You don't write the whole alphabet, let alone 6,500 Chinese characters. MoFont gives you 30–50 specific characters chosen to capture how you write — stroke pressure, slant, how you close a loop, how you tail a stroke.
2. Capture it
Photograph the paper with your phone, or write directly on an iPad with an Apple Pencil. Either way the model gets a clean read of your hand.
3. Let the model learn and generate
This is the step the old tools couldn't do. The model studies your sample and generates the rest of the font in your style — for Chinese, the 6,500+ glyphs and their long tail of rare characters. Consistent, not copied.
4. Download and install
About an hour later you get an OTF and a TTF. Install them like any font; they show up in every app's font menu — Word, Photoshop, Figma, your diary app. (Which format? — you get both.)
The same flow with screenshots: the handwriting-to-font workflow.
How to make your own font for free
You can build and preview the font before paying — see exactly what your hand looks like as a typeface first. Downloading the final OTF/TTF is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and there's no watermark — pricing. We charge once because training a per-person model costs real GPU time.
What about other tools?
Most "make your own font" apps make you draw every single glyph by hand. Fine for Latin's couple hundred; impossible for Chinese's thousands. If you've looked at Calligraphr or iFontMaker and stalled at the Chinese character count, that's exactly the gap MoFont closes: you write ~30, the model fills the rest.
FAQ
How long does it take? Writing the sample: 10–20 minutes. Generation: about an hour. Then it's yours.
Do I need any design software? No. You write characters and download a font file. No FontForge, no Bézier curves.
Can I make a Chinese font this way? Yes — that's MoFont's specialty. Simplified Chinese (6,500+) ships today; Japanese and Korean are in development.
Is the font really usable in Word and Photoshop? Yes — it's a standard OTF/TTF and appears in any font menu.
Who's behind MoFont? Iris Gu (顾砚秋), a type designer in Hangzhou — about.
Four steps, one hour, and the font is in your own hand.
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