Signature Software takes your handwriting, cursive or print, and turns it into a font that works with every word processor and desktop-publishing or drawing program. Signature Software's program, WriteType, even works with spreadsheets.
The problem is, few people have handwriting that's worth preserving for posterity. Signature Software tries to solve this by putting blue guidance lines on the signature form that you fill out and send to them for scanning. If you still make a mistake, Signature will allow you to rewrite up to 26 of the letters and symbols for free.
My signature font looks like my handwriting did in seventh grade, before I started typing my homework assignments: precisely positioned, carefully connected, and uniformly uninteresting. People with artistic handwriting will likely have much better results.
For us scribblers, Signature also offers two packages of great-looking handwritten typefaces: PenPals, a collection of printed fonts, and SuperScripts, a collection of cursive ones.
WriteType: US$299.95 (context-sensitive natural handwriting), PenFont: $49.95 (printed fonts), SuperScripts $49.95 (collection of 5 scripts), PenPals $29.95 (collection of 5 printed fonts). Signature Software Inc.: (800) 925 8840, +1 (503) 386 3221.
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