You can do this for as many characters as you need. You can open your scanned image in an editor (even MS Paint will work for this) and erase the left framing line next to Q. Say that the letter Q has a left framing line in it. What you can do is to OPEN the font file in the viewer (rather than downloading and installing it) and use a simple text editor like WordPad to determine which characters have problems. This is usually what takes me the most time. You can either rescan the template compensating for the slant, or you can upload the image as-is and see how many framing lines end up in your font. This can lead to a slanted template, which won't be obvious until you scan it and see that it's canted a bit. Sometimes, the printer will send a leaf of paper through the works at a slight angle.
Since MyScriptFont involves a physical/digital conversion, there's bound to be at least a few glitches to be worked out before you can say "Hey, it worked!" The first is something totally out of your control. I don't know exactly how it manages to make a font from an image file, only that it involves FontForge. When that's all done, FINALLY you can generate your font with MyScriptFont. Personally, I have better luck with TIFFs than PNGs.
If you don't have that option (some scanners only output PDFs) you can use Neevia Document Converter (a free and browser-based tool) to convert PDFs into various other formats. Once the template is filled out, scan it in grayscale at 300 dpi (those instructions are printed right on the template btw) and set it to output as a PNG or TIFF. I use a black Sharpie Pen or PITT 0.5 mm (but that one cost a bit because it's a pro's art pen- I draw manga). I'd suggest a bullet-tip Sharpie or a black Crayola. This rules out pencils and ballpoints right away. You'll need a pen that marks darker than the guidelines and will show up in a black-and-white scan. The next step is the fill in the template. If you don't have one, you can probably get away with sneaking the template to work or school and printing it out there.
The first step is to print out the script template, which is in PDF format. Not everything can be carried out in the computer. The interesting thing about MyScriptFont is that it involves the physical plane. Apart from a scan of the filled out template and a name for your font, MyScriptFont doesn't ask for any information at all. The glyphs are written in alphabetical and numerical order from top to bottom and right to left.MyScriptFont is a free service that automatically generates a typeface from your own handwriting. The presentation contains 22 Phoenician letters, characters for separating words and sentences (period and apostrophe), and six Phoenician numerals: 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, and 100. (The current version of the font is 1.1.0.)įinally, I used Inkscape 0.92 to prepare an SVG presentation of the Phoenician abjad. The Paleo-Hebrew Abjad font is available here: This font allows you to write Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew.
Then I used designed glyphs to create the Paleo-Hebrew Abjad font using FontForge 20190801. According to the constructivist approach, all characters are made of rectangles, circles, and ellipses. I tried to standardize the shape and height of the characters and base them on the baseline. Since the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew alphabets were practically the same, I also designed Phoenician numerals. I used this project to design the Paleo-Hebrew abjad using Inkscape 0.92. The original design is a constructivist idealization of the Paleo-Hebrew abjad. English: The Phoenician alphabet (abjad) is based on the JPG project by Yclorfene, which is available here: