"Handwriting font" means two very different things

Search "handwriting font" and you mostly get someone else's hand — pre-drawn script typefaces you download and pretend are personal. MoFont makes the real thing: a font cut from your own writing, so every line you type reads in your own voice. The difference shows the moment a friend recognises your hand in a typed message.

How to make yours

1. Write 30–50 characters we pick for you. They're chosen to capture your pressure, slant, and the way you close and tail strokes — not random filler.
2. Capture it — a phone photo of paper, or write straight onto an iPad with an Apple Pencil.
3. The model learns your hand and generates the rest of the font in the same style. For Chinese that's 6,500+ glyphs you never had to draw.
4. Download OTF + TTF about an hour later and install like any font. (OTF vs TTF?)

Step-by-step with screenshots: the handwriting-to-font workflow.

Why drawing every glyph yourself doesn't scale

Older "make your own font" tools hand you a template and ask you to draw every character. For Latin that's a couple hundred — tedious but doable. For Chinese it's 6,500+ glyphs, with a brutal long tail of rare characters. Nobody hand-letters all of those. MoFont's whole point is that you write ~30 and the model fills the rest in your style, consistently, including the rare ones.

What people make theirs for

• Journals and diary apps, set as the default so typing feels like writing.
• Wedding invitations — the problem MoFont was born to solve.
• A personal brand or small shop no competitor can copy — it's literally your hand.
• Cards, love letters, signatures that look handwritten but are typed in seconds.

Pricing

One payment and the font is yours — see pricing. No subscription, no watermark, no tier that holds your own handwriting hostage. We charge once because training a per-person model costs real GPU time; after that the OTF/TTF files are yours forever.

FAQ

How many characters do I write? About 30 to start, up to ~50 for the sharpest result. The model generates the remaining thousands in your style.

Does it support Chinese / Japanese / Korean? Simplified Chinese (6,500+) ships today. Japanese (7,000+) and Korean (2,350+) are in development; Traditional Chinese is on the roadmap.

Will it work in Word / Photoshop / Figma? Yes — it's a standard OTF/TTF. Any app with a font menu can use it.

Can I make a handwriting font for free? You can build and preview the result before you buy. Downloading the final OTF/TTF is a one-time purchase — pricing.

Who makes this? Iris Gu (顾砚秋), a type designer in Hangzhou — about.