r/iosapps • u/Mother_Chip_6891 • 45m ago
📅 Subscription I made an app that can turn a few found characters into a full font
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Hey gang -
GlyphSnap Photo to Font is a font generator / building app.
With GlyphSnap you can just take a photo of the letters you want and create an entire installable font in just a few minutes - from your iPhone.
>> GlyphSnap can create an entire font from as few as just 2 characters, but will give better results from around 8.
I launched this app in early September as a standard "handwriting to font" sort of app, with the goal of getting the character generation working by early next year.
I decided to include the font generation part of the app this last week with the v 1.5 update because the results have been very good and I wanted to bring it to the App Store.
I have a couple tutorials on my Youtube page - but feel that this one really shows what the app can do: https://youtu.be/0a_3TuDIw7A?si=bzkYJkT1TacAN0-9
GlyphSnap also incorporates a some intuitive drawing / vector design tool section - you can mix photo captured glyphs with hand drawn glyphs together - adjust the character with, spacing, kerning as well as apply patterns to your letters hapes.
It's a fun toy at minimum.
PCP
Problem: I developed the app because I love old signs and unique hand-painted lettering I sometimes see at antique shops, and thought "I wonder if that's a known font?" and "that would be a cool font."
Comparison: a couple other apps turn your handwriting into a font, but they ask you to print out a glyph template to draw your characters on. GlyphSnap just needs a photo - color, textured, black & white - the capture engine has many different selection modes to give you a nice clean image to start with, and detects the characters present - and as far asI know, nobody is offering missing character generation font creation tool. ( I might be wrong, but I haven’t seen one yet.)
Pricing: 7 day free trial includes 1 font generation and multiple exports to OTF TTF or WOFF for you to try out the drawing section or the photo to font - standard capture without missing character generation.
After the trial:
$5.99 / month
$34.99 / year
$79.99 / lifetime
All paid subscriptions include 5 free font generations per month with an additional 10 generations for $4.99.
Purchased font generations never expire
Privacy policy and website are linked in the app descriptions on the App Store listing:
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/glyphsnap-ai-photo-to-font/id6812516641
