Turn your handwriting into a font
Notes, greeting cards, worksheets, a personal touch on a slide: your own handwriting as a font you can type with — without uploading a scan to anyone.
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Works offline
- No upload
- No sign-up
- No watermark
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How it works
- Pick the character sets you need (hiragana, katakana, A–Z, digits…) and name the font.
- Draw each character in the box — mouse, finger or pen. Your strokes are saved in this browser as you go.
- Build the font, try it in the preview, and download TTF or WOFF2.
Why nothing is uploaded
Every operation on this page is done by code running inside your browser tab, using the same engine that renders web pages. The file is read from disk into your tab’s memory, transformed there, and written back out as a download. It is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to a third party.
Verify it yourself
- Open your browser’s developer tools (F12) and select the Network tab.
- Load your file and run the tool.
- The only requests you will see fetch the tool’s own code — and, for a few heavy tools, their open-source engine from a public CDN — plus one small page-view ping to loreatec.jp (page address and title, nothing more). None of them carry your file.
Frequently asked questions
How does a drawing become a font?
Each character is drawn as ink at high resolution, its outline is traced (marching squares), the outline is simplified and converted to TrueType curves, and a font-writing library produces a genuine TTF. The result installs on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android like any other font, and the WOFF2 works on the web.
Do I have to draw every character?
No. Characters you skip are absent from the font, and text falls back to the next font in the stack for them. Draw the 46 hiragana and digits first, add katakana and letters when you have time — your strokes stay saved in this browser, so you can build again later.
Why does the kana box look different from the letter box?
Kana are designed as full-width characters that sit in a square (advance width 1000 units, like every Japanese font); Latin letters are proportional, with a baseline, x-height and cap height. The guides follow those conventions so the result behaves like a normal font when mixed with others.
Where are my drawings stored?
In this browser’s local storage, on your device — nothing is sent anywhere. Clearing site data, or the “start over” button, deletes them.
Can I use it commercially?
It is your handwriting and your font: you own it. The tool adds no restriction of its own.