{"workflow":{"id":"discovery-8af0d75ec38a005a47ee054e","title":"Build a personal handwriting font from scanned notes","consumerTitle":"Build a personal handwriting font from scanned notes","desc":"The Harshpreet Hand author reports using Claude Code to turn 120 pages of handwritten notes into installable fonts. The repository includes the glyph-harvesting pipeline, sample choices, font builds and instructions for adapting it to your own writing.","category":"Creativity & hobbies","agent":"Claude Code","url":"https://github.com/harshpreet931/harshpreet-hand","source":"Original GitHub project documentation","status":"User-reported","checked":"2026-11-05","notes":"The published pipeline is tuned to blue ballpoint notes on ruled paper and requires adaptation and transcription work. Some source glyphs are reconstructed and the fonts have no hinting for tiny text. The author's runtime and cost are not a promise; this adaptation was not independently tested. Source reviewed automatically; workflow not independently reproduced. Connection options require verification in your own agent.","prompt":"TASK: Build a personal handwriting font from scanned notes\n\nMY SETUP\n- Access to Claude Code and a local copy of the handwriting-font repository\n- A PDF of your own legible handwritten pages with varied letters and numbers\n- Python dependencies and potrace installed as described by the project\n- Time to transcribe samples and review glyphs and reconstructed characters\n\nBEFORE STARTING\nConfirm which files, information and permissions you can actually access. Ask me for essential missing details. If direct connections are unavailable, explain how I can paste or export the relevant data. Do not claim an integration is connected without checking.\n\nWORKFLOW\n1. Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. Identify ink colour, ruling, missing character coverage and dependencies that need adapting.\n2. Render and segment the pages. Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.\n3. Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.\n4. Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.\n5. Generate the specimen and verification outputs. Show repeated letters, capitals, punctuation and representative sentences beside the source handwriting, and revise conspicuous mismatches before handing me the installable fonts.\n\nEXPECTED RESULT\nA personal TTF font and optional WOFF/WOFF2 files, a specimen for proofreading, and editable glyph choices with missing or reconstructed characters identified.\n\nLIMITATIONS\nThe published pipeline is tuned to blue ballpoint notes on ruled paper and requires adaptation and transcription work. Some source glyphs are reconstructed and the fonts have no hinting for tiny text. The author's runtime and cost are not a promise; this adaptation was not independently tested.\n\nFIRST RUN\nUse a small read-only sample and show me the result. 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Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.","Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.","Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.","Generate the specimen and verification outputs. Show repeated letters, capitals, punctuation and representative sentences beside the source handwriting, and revise conspicuous mismatches before handing me the installable fonts."],"taskSteps":["Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. Identify ink colour, ruling, missing character coverage and dependencies that need adapting.","Render and segment the pages. Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.","Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.","Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.","Generate the specimen and verification outputs. Show repeated letters, capitals, punctuation and representative sentences beside the source handwriting, and revise conspicuous mismatches before handing me the installable fonts."],"taskConnectors":["Access to Claude Code and a local copy of the handwriting-font repository","A PDF of your own legible handwritten pages with varied letters and numbers","Python dependencies and potrace installed as described by the project","Time to transcribe samples and review glyphs and reconstructed characters"],"connectionOptions":["Place a PDF of scanned notebook pages next to the repository and give Claude Code the local file path.","Combine phone photos of your handwritten pages into a PDF locally, then ask Claude Code to adapt the pipeline to that file and its ink colour."],"expectedResult":"A personal TTF font and optional WOFF/WOFF2 files, a specimen for proofreading, and editable glyph choices with missing or reconstructed characters identified.","limitations":"The published pipeline is tuned to blue ballpoint notes on ruled paper and requires adaptation and transcription work. Some source glyphs are reconstructed and the fonts have no hinting for tiny text. The author's runtime and cost are not a promise; this adaptation was not independently tested.","trigger":"On demand","evidenceSummary":"The Harshpreet Hand author reports using Claude Code to turn 120 pages of handwritten notes into installable fonts. The repository includes the glyph-harvesting pipeline, sample choices, font builds and instructions for adapting it to your own writing.","evidenceType":"user-reported","recipe":{"goal":"Build a personal handwriting font from scanned notes","sources":["Place a PDF of scanned notebook pages next to the repository and give Claude Code the local file path.","Combine phone photos of your handwritten pages into a PDF locally, then ask Claude Code to adapt the pipeline to that file and its ink colour."],"access":"Access to Claude Code and a local copy of the handwriting-font repository; A PDF of your own legible handwritten pages with varied letters and numbers; Python dependencies and potrace installed as described by the project; Time to transcribe samples and review glyphs and reconstructed characters","trigger":"On demand","steps":["Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. 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Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. Identify ink colour, ruling, missing character coverage and dependencies that need adapting.\n2. Render and segment the pages. Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.\n3. Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.\n4. Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.\n5. Generate the specimen and verification outputs. Show repeated letters, capitals, punctuation and representative sentences beside the source handwriting, and revise conspicuous mismatches before handing me the installable fonts.\n\nEXPECTED RESULT\nA personal TTF font and optional WOFF/WOFF2 files, a specimen for proofreading, and editable glyph choices with missing or reconstructed characters identified.\n\nLIMITATIONS\nThe published pipeline is tuned to blue ballpoint notes on ruled paper and requires adaptation and transcription work. Some source glyphs are reconstructed and the fonts have no hinting for tiny text. The author's runtime and cost are not a promise; this adaptation was not independently tested.\n\nFIRST RUN\nUse a small read-only sample and show me the result. 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Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. Identify ink colour, ruling, missing character coverage and dependencies that need adapting.\n2. Render and segment the pages. Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.\n3. Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.\n4. Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.\n5. Generate the specimen and verification outputs. 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Inspect the supplied notes and repository before running the pipeline. Identify ink colour, ruling, missing character coverage and dependencies that need adapting.\n2. Render and segment the pages. Produce numbered word contact sheets and prepare or request checked transcriptions for the selected word IDs.\n3. Harvest and rank character samples, then show candidate glyphs and choose representative variants. Keep a record of reconstructed or missing characters rather than passing them off as traced samples.\n4. Adapt the font family names, spacing and source selections. Build the TTF and web font files with the repository pipeline, retaining the editable choices.\n5. Generate the specimen and verification outputs. 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