Fonthead

Our font maker. Fill in an alphabet sheet, or use your own handwriting, and it comes back as a real font your computer will actually install.

Captured 28 July 2026

See it live

fonthead.dev

The problem

Making a real installable font used to mean font software, a specialist, or settling for a novelty generator whose output breaks the moment you install it. Meanwhile the most personal typeface anyone owns is already sitting in their handwriting. We wanted the distance between those two things to be one upload.

What we built

Fonthead turns an alphabet sheet, or your own handwriting, into a font your computer will actually install. Every glyph gets traced and spaced, then exported as OTF, TTF, and WOFF2. The tracing, the OpenType build, and the compression all run on your own machine, so your handwriting never leaves the browser. When it's done, you can publish the face to a community wall where everything else was made the same way.

The Fonthead community wall, with faces published from the browser. Captured 28 July 2026.

What we decided

3 calls

Everything that touches your handwriting runs in the browser, on your machine.

Handwriting is biometric-adjacent. The strongest privacy promise is the one the architecture makes for you: nothing to trust because nothing gets sent.
The output is a real font, three formats, properly built.

A generator whose fonts fail on install is a toy. Traced, spaced, and exported correctly is the difference between a novelty and a tool.
The wall only holds faces made here.

A community wall where everything shares an origin stays a community. A wall that accepts uploads from anywhere becomes a dump.