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Handwriting styles

We write with the strokes of real hands, not with a typeface. Fourteen of them are shown below. Further down is the full list of everything we have tried, including what we dropped.

State of our register: 7 November 2026.

The same line in fourteen hands

Each hand passed an independent reading test. “Try it” writes your own line in that hand on the home page.

Thank you, Ms Lindqvist!

  1. No. 0210Try it
  2. No. 0360Try it
  3. No. 0530Try it
  4. No. 0663Try it
  5. No. 0705Try it
  6. No. 0773Try it
  7. No. 0841Try it
  8. No. 0206Try it
  9. No. 0344Try it
  10. No. 0528Try it
  11. No. 0625Try it
  12. No. 0683Try it
  13. No. 0719Try it
  14. No. 0858Try it

How a hand is made

The steps are the same for every hand. The short version of why is in Why we digitise real hands.

  1. 1. Real strokes We start from pen strokes a person actually wrote: a page of the dataset, or a template filled in by hand and scanned. Each stroke is reduced to a single centre line, because a pen plotter follows a line, not an outline.
  2. 2. Several forms per letter Every letter is kept in several genuine forms. Lowercase letters average between 4.6 and 6.4 forms per letter, depending on the hand. We never copy one “e” and call it a series.
  3. 3. A reading test An independent reader gets a hard sample: two letters, addresses, the alphabet, digits and a repeated line. Hands that read badly are left out.
  4. 4. Paper The survivors are written on our machine and compared on paper. Only then does a hand go on this page.

Everything we have, and what we show

Not every hand we built is good enough, and not every hand is ours to show. This is the whole register.

All handwriting and fonts in our register, with source, licence and status
WhatWhere it comes fromLicenceStatus
14 Hands digitised from the research dataset, shown hereReal pen strokes of individual writers from the ScaDS.AI German Handwriting Dataset (Leipzig University). Missing characters are composed from the same hand.CC BY 4.0, credit requiredPassed an independent reading test on a hard sample. Shown on this page.
3 Hands digitised from the same dataset, not shownSame dataset and method.CC BY 4.0, credit requiredTwo scored lower on the reading test than the others and one is a draft in which an n reads like a u. We do not recommend them.
2 Hands of people at Deimann ComRecorded from a writing template filled in by hand and scanned.Own hands, used with the writer's consentNot published.
3 Designed or generated handsTwo drawn with AI assistance, one generated by a movement model.Our own work, no third-party glyphsThe generated one was rejected: it did not look human. The two drawn ones read more like a typeface than a hand.
20 Free single-stroke fonts18 from the EMS single-line collection (Evil Mad Scientist, from the Hershey text collection) and 2 Hershey scripts.SIL Open Font License 1.1 (18), public domain (2)Our machine can write with them. They are other people's fonts, so we neither show nor sell them as files.

42 entries in all. Source: Our font register (letter-engine, assets/schriften/verzeichnis.json), state of 23 October 2026, read again on 7 November 2026. No new hand has been added since.

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