I am a computer programmer. I have developed a new standard for scalable computer fonts that specializes in cursive fonts. I have also built a website for building and using these fonts in a fun, animated editor.
As an additional twist, this new font format lends itself to random perturbations that make it look convincingly handwritten.
What are some ways I can monetize this? I have thought of a few already, but am open to more suggestions.
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Here's another sample using another font I put together using my own website. It's not as good because it's basically a copy of a typical "cursive" computer font rather than a true person's handwriting. But just for demonstration purposes
Very cool. Contact CIA or DOD. Can probably tie it into deepfakes and imitate others handwriting and signatures. Doing the devils work sir. Excellent job. Air force currently has 1m grant for new tech. I'll send a link if you're interested.
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This stuff could be useful for generating a dataset for ML training.
Sure user, post link if you don't mind. The interface I built is really pretty fun so I've been skewed towards finding an entertainment / time-wasting application for this tech, but I am also perfectly willing to let it fall into the government's hands if they have a use for it and are willing to buy it.
If you're an ML student / researcher and are seriously interested, I would be willing to discuss generating datasets for you.
your smart user, i hope this takes you far
Yeah as the other user said, this is just a step away from being able to do signatures. What if you had a captcha handshake between two computers using a certain variable in the text as proof or transaction validation? Like a fingerprint.
This would be extremely valuable to businesses looking for faux-personalized marketing.
Well, unfortunately, there are far better ways to do that kind of thing, but thanks for posting user.
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Absolutely, that's one of the potential applications I've thought of as well. Just a few days ago I got a piece of junk mail printed on paper made to look like yellow notebook paper, with some typical half-assed "cursive" font on it.
Based user. I’m a old medfag and of no use but just wanted to wish you well. This looks really clever.
There is a company out there that sends actual handwritten greeting cards on your behalf. But it’s a robotic arm that does the writing with a ballpoint pen. I don’t quite remember if the robotic arm incorporates idiosyncrasies of human handwriting, but that would be so awesome to combine it with this.
Thanks user, I'll invite you all to my penthouse to party once I sell this thing.
greydanus.github.io
Nice LARP, this already exists
If you can remember the name of the company, I'd be interested in researching it more.
Honest to god I could have used this so many times. Most of the uses were illegal, but there were at least one or two that were legal.
Handwrytten
But seriously, what’s the difference between your thing and what’s on github? And how long did it take you to develop?
I noticed the writing is too straight, there needs to be some variation in word angle and height.
That's using machine learning, mine is not. My heart sank when you posted that, but after taking a look, mine honestly does a better job of cursive, and is using far more primitive algorithms to boot. So Sam Greydanus can eat my shit
So yours can’t replicate someone’s actual handwriting then?
Thanks user. You have a good one.
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Agree, luckily I designed the format itself to be very receptive to that kind of thing, just a matter of implementing it.
The core of his is machine learning; The core of mine is just literally a new format to store fonts that is built around cursive fonts and algorithms for smoothly connecting strokes together.
Well, it can in a sense, someone just has to build the font first. For example, the samples I've been posting are a replication of my own handwriting. I hand-wrote some sample text, took a picture of it, then used my font building program that I wrote to trace the letters of my own handwriting. Once the font is stored, it can be used to type and can be rendered with random perturbations.
I am starting to get cocky. I cannot believe they literally have robot arms doing that. I can replicate their business at scale using nothing but my cum-stained $700 desktop computer.
There's pretty decent sized business in "hand written" cards for gifting. There are entire businesses created which do this, it's especially common for corporate purposes either b2b or b2c retention. Probably could pivot to a business like that. I have some more specific ideas, but that's all you get for free, bub. GL.
You can't because you don't really understand their operations or customer acquisition models and would have to figure that out, and that's a very different skill set than programming. Why are devs always so cocky and think they can replicate any business just because they can code something similar? You know what's going to happen to your program - nothing. It will sit on your hard drive forever while you shitpost on Zig Forums.
What’s your background user? What inspired to take on this problem?
Came here for this. I would contact all the biggest marketing agencies in America and pitch your product.
Do it to fake prescriptions and score me some Xanax.
Yeah you're right, I'm getting ahead of myself. It's just that as a dev, it's really funny to see such a ham-handed solution to this problem such as literally building robot arms to do this. 2000x the effort for a solution that is maybe 10% better. I cannot imagine thinking "How do we make handwritten-looking letters" and arriving at "let's build robots to write the letters."
I'm a full-time software engineer unsurprisingly. I did it in my free time simply because the idea for the format hit me and it struck me how easy it would be to take this font format and render "handwritten" text, so simply cranked it out for fun.
I just started copying your project will publish it in europe fren thanks for the detailed information see you in 2-3 weeks