Pick a sort from the case, draw it on the bench, read it in the specimen. Every stroke becomes a filled letterform in place, exactly as it will ship; the five dials retune every letter you have drawn at once. When enough of the alphabet is cut, the proof line sets your text in the actual font, and the download is an OpenType file your computer will install.
Nothing you draw leaves this browser. The studio keeps your work here between visits and can save it to a file you own.
0 of 26 capitals. Type a letter, or use the arrow keys, to move between sorts.
An OpenType file with CFF outlines. Double-click it to install; it works anywhere a font does.
WHAT THE MACHINE DOES
A stroke you draw is a centreline. The studio wraps it in a ribbon whose width is the weight, thinned across the horizontals by the contrast, sheared by the slant, and capped square or round by the roundness, and it fills the ribbon. The same arithmetic draws the bench, the specimen, the proof and the file, so there is no second rendering to disagree with the first. Erase removes a whole stroke, because a stroke is the unit the machine knows. Smooth runs a small average along every stroke of the glyph and can be undone.
The file is OpenType with CFF outlines, one glyph per sort you cut, a space, and a single spacing value on every side of every letter. There is no hinting and no kerning: at small sizes it will look hand-made, because it is. Letters you have not drawn fall back to whatever font sits behind yours.
Shortcuts: a letter key selects that sort; ← → step through the case; Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes; Ctrl+Enter downloads.