PilotHandwriting.com

[AmericanGirl9201]

Why'd they stop, it's a brilliant idea!

[LexterDeath]

damn :'(

[spoonbetty]

So totally disappointed that this was discontinued!!!! One comment mentioned making your own font - any tips on how to?

[Michicaela]

i am super sad that this isn't going on anymore :(

[fisken2910]

whats the song in the background



[nalfavi]

This website does the same thing

w w w DOT fontifier DOT c o m

[Aurora81689]

gah, just fucking write a god damn letter!!!! jesus. -.-

[dcs1892]

let's all spam gary =P

[vpaigep13]

NO LONGER A WORKING WEBSITE.

[Shedevil8990]

why did they stop this? I don't understaaannnddd

[Barloventi]

such a shame it ended. anyone interested in buying pilots to encourage the company for a relaunch??

[persevere67]

that is very cool! where can i get this?

[wcrabtree]

You people can still make your own font. It isn't hard at all.

[meetmisscupcake]

BRING THE CAMPAIGN BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE

[nazfashionista]

My life would have changed if this hadn't ended =[!

[MCRxOWNSxYOURxSOUL]

IT ENDED. Damnit.

[iusefizzylogic]

gr8 they've stopped doing it.

[OhaiPanda]

I was meaning to try this a long time ago, but oh well. I have a tablet anyway. -_-

[420Z]

lol this is really interesting...

[BigBagsForRent]

How silly and redundant. 

[olllj]

This totally cound not be used to fake someones signature online.

[ethybob]

The computer is the most powerful tool of all time, and now you can use your own handwriting on it! :D

[TheBiscuitBaker]

-_- the website doesn't work

[pjvdixon]

The sound track is a keynote lecture by Patrick Dixon, keynote conference speaker. see channel pjvdixon

[vstacey6]

I can't believe they took it away! Just last month WTF?

[lisa320]

There's a similar one at yourfonts. I'm checking it out now.

[kellbug0038]

Ugh, wtf it's gone already?! FAIL PILOT, FAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..... Grrr

[outlaw393]

Campaign ended. FTMFL

[urs0r]

is the font exportable?

[RobeonMew]

what ever happened to paper and pen?

fucking apple will make anything that'll make us lazier, *yet trendier*

[MusicMan4592]

Yeah i was really upset to see it was discontinued...I was actually excited...cool bro

[Cookies2Sugar]

Thank you, Stumbleupon! This is awesome. Thumbs up if you found this through Stumbleupon!

[pilpula]

Or even better, just write an actual letter and post it to your friend. It's a lot easier :)

[minutewalt]

It's gone! It went away in June, less than a friggin' month ago! Damm you, Internet, daaaaammm yoooouuuu!!!!

[megandross]

I love it! :)

[Torchicator]

Why did they delete this?! I found it today and was so impressed, I was going to type out my blog entries that I've already done and put them in my own handwriting to put into a journal so my future generations could see what I wrote in my 21st century journal. I went to the site and it's shut down, and I am so upset!!!!!!

[MINISLASH0]

oH OKAY FUCK YOU TOO PILOT HANDWRITING GOD I HATE YOU SO MUCH

[thegiantmike]

Thats cool and all......but my handwriting sucks. haha. But that is an excellent concept and application. I does add a more personal touch to any digital writing and the process to set it up seems pretty easy.

[buzzerfly]

Bring it back!!!

[superanimefan275]

Booo! They discontinued it right when I found out about it!

[theonlymoss37]

damn... its gone...

[TheySoughtEight]

I would so use this. :(

[GadSpooks]

D: Bring it baaaack. I wanna play with this.

[scarletlark]

Just discovered this, and already it's gone?!

BRING IT BACK!!! Pretty please. :D

[mariahrjn]

Why did this end!? Its probably one of the coolest things on the internet. Is it going to be back up???

[ColletteGurthet]

Wow, I just read where the site is no longer. Boo Woo. I think this is such a wonderful idea. Now, if anyone wants to sell the software. I would buy it! There must be away for us to get something like this.......Any one, ANY ONE!

[HConstantine]

@ColletteGurthet There is plenty of font design freeware on the net. Just use google.

[FairyH34rt]

FML

[megasock1]

Why did it end?!?!?!

[ELLIEteehee]

Well... that's disappointing, i was looking forward to using this! Hahahaa

[cebolinha25]

Just found it and it's discontinued?! Please bring it back!

[kelsohammy]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I StumbleUpon-ed this video, got so elated I could have cried, rushed to the website, and....

it is over.

[WhatsMyNameNowluv]

if you don't have it anymore they why keep the video on here?

And i was so excited to try it out even if my handwriting changes from letter to letter 

[crimsondoor513]

WOW I would find out about this 2 days after it ends.

[southernbellemel27]

what I just went to the website and the service was discontinued? i'm so upset I never got to use it!

[Collegesux09]

Kind of sad it ended, loved it.

[77aquanetta]

Aw poo, it stopped working! The website canceled!!!

[Paulina89]

Why was this discontinued? I was about to do it but it's not possible anymore :(

[Gryphex]

So... did it just die or what? I went to check out the website today (July 1, 2011) and it sounds like it was discontinued yesterday. What happened?

[Carpetcleanerman]

just checked the website - and the service is discontinued.... :(

[millekassing12]

it was discontinued

[LiliumSnow]

Website doesn't seem to work now :\

[Therium007]

I just discovered this but it appears that the website will be discontinued June 30th, 2011. :(

[Oreadontelis]

looks so awesome, but too bad i don't have a webcam :\

[thatstheguy07]

This is pretty fuckin cool but it would be a whole lot cooler if

a) It was for everything, not just email and

b) It smoked weed.

[grimwomyn]

I wish people still wrote letters

[unluckyjoker16]

this is awesome... COOL!

[OkayWeAreDorks]

Lovely concept, Except the real thing DOESN'T WORK THAT WELL!!!!!!

[Squishy876]

Well this is cool as hell

[Cokecanninja]

Fuckin' Macs.

[McGurkerRULZ]

This was the worst idea. They should've released it as software that creates an actual font, not required you to send people an e-card. No one likes those!

[AmyEmz]

I would be very interested if it came in a font file I could use in Microsoft Word for example.

[LoveableFoxGirl]

Too good to be true. It's got to cost a pretty penny

[Downfurlife]

This is awesome!

[PhuqueUTube3]

If your handwriting, even your printing is terrible, why would you want to preserve it as a font? I am happy to be rid of mine.

[tfmMspringles]

i dun have a printer lol

[Ellert00]

Cursive was only created to save time, and there is a reason we don´t use cursive on computers despite it having been possible for some time. Print letters are easy to read and you´re no slower typing them on your keyboard than you are writing with some fancy version of cursive. If someone wrote me an email with this program I´d delete it on the spot and tell the person I´d read it when I could have it in a readable form. Honestly this is one of the most useless programs I have ever seen.

[crazyphan18]

so you can forge signatures?

[andresuaza]

Now, no one will understand each other!!!!

[curlyyyyyyyy]

thumbs up if StumbleUpon sent u here

[TheGoldViolet]

I <3 the idea, the easy picture and edit, everything! just please make it so we can actually use it for word and a real font!

[greentoaster]

webcam picture? This can't be serious.

[spankytclown]

Totally fucking useless web application.

[sheppard67]

That's awesome! What do you need?

[sheppard67]

That's awesome! What do u need?

[stratman06]

Poor Gary :(

[ReFantash]

isnt so easy, how connect the letters each other as this video shows? it takes hours and hours of preparation for each letter.

better send letter or write 'n type

[dominiqueeiscool]

How sad... nobody handwrites their own letters anymore.

[Smellycat91]

would love to try it out, but the website tells me i've to download the latest version of adobe flash player, which i have already done so, any suggestions please?

[32Pennies]

Is it free?

[IkaTheDragolf]

Didn't work.

[monkichia]

who writes like that anymore, anyway?

[MaryKateSalva]

what song is being played on the backround?

[MaryKateSalva]

what being played?

[Thezepppelin]

theres no way to use it in word, right?

[PanJawelDrugi]

waste of bandwidth

[slatibaadfast]

I can't get the damn thing to send emails. every time I try it tells me the bloody font doesn't belong to me. I think pilot are just using the public to rip off new fonts.

[MsJack12345678910]

great

[BieberTeen]

I luv it! our teacher gave us the copy and i took a pic of the writing. this really helps alot with ur handwriting :)

[AquaLinux]

Interesting concept; however, this doesn't work for people such as myself, whose letters will change form depending on the letter's place in a word. :/

[A1R5N1P3R]

@AquaLinux Agreed, someone would have to improve on the concept of Kerning to include predictive letter (re)placement.

[HConstantine]

@AquaLinux You and everyone else who's ever written. Among other things, I am rained in palaeography, and this is such an insult to the idea of handwriting I can't believe it. Also it seems as if the 'font' can only be used on a site owned by Pilot. that's just who I want reading my e-mails.

If you wanted to do what is depicted, why not write out the text, scan it, and embed it in the email?

[MrFibertiger]

haha i'd be so annoyed if i got an email in that handwriting

[jtsotojr]

This is a remarkably interesting video. I love the concept of bringing back personality to writing e-mails. The process doesn't seem incredibly difficult, though it'll certainly require some time initially to set up the system.

[rouansi]

fantasstiic!!



[hagumi321]

wow this is great!!

[ravendon]

Interesting. The reason why so many medications are prescribed incorrectly and result in tragedy is because people can't understand the doctors' handwriting. So a person is supposed to go to all that work just to produce chicken scratch so their victims, I mean recipients, will have the pleasure of disciphering their handwriting? Sorry, totally unnecessary tech. They have handwritten fonts that are more legible and easier to use. Simply install & you have handwriting. Tada! Wonders never cease!

[kmm3kmm3]

Not a fan. My writing would look very different this way. It doesn't account for the transition between lettering as you write. It seems to only take each letter on its own and shove them together.

[Awordofdifference]

Why would I want to waste my time doing this, just for another font? Waste of time. If your writing is so bland that somehow, handwriting makes it better, than that is sad and pathetic.

[Ablequerq]

I got your mail Gary Smith.

[GuacamoleKun]

I don't want to print the template. Why can't I just do it in Photoshop?

[ShetlandGiraffe]

They should have chosen "We Used To Wait" as the soundtrack. I used to write; I used to write letters, I used to sign my name...

[byscuit1973]

a little late pilot, this kind of technology has been out for a few years already, its been free, and instead of taking a low resolution picture (wtf??) you could actually scan it instead

[Boogers32150]

Tried it, but unfortunately there are no commas or periods.

I live off periods, and commas..so

...it was traumatizing.

[gokug1]

Bueno para cuando piden tareas "a mano"... facil, metes una hoja de la libreta a la impresora, escaneas tu tipografia y VOILA XD!

[OozilyAmeezed]

Just be sure you have plenty of black ink before you print the template-----

[SisterToSleepx]

Very awesome, makes me wish I weren't dysgraphic though.

But still, excellent idea ^_^

[BalfourAchievement]

Sweet! All you need is a printer and webcam to create your own font! Great tool for those of us in the journalism/publication design world!

[joerazim]

@BalfourAchievement Would hopefully work with a scanner too as this is likely to pick up a clearer image than a web cam

[justanotherfakeid]

You know... If you actually knew how to write then your identity would not be lost. I suppose incorporating voice into a person's writing has become all to difficult a task.

[joerazim]

@justanotherfakeid No. Still the invention of the telephone did personalaise communications more than the letter did, I think. And for me Skype and its siblings make communication with my family overseas even more personal.

But you are right in that the mode of communication does not define who you are. It just gives you different modes for expresing that personality.

[jurgenkrieger]

you also can use scanner or a photo camera

[xXavrilrocks]

I dont have ç a webcam!!!!!! :(

[Stateoflies2010]

"recover apart of our identity we lost online" or offering more of ourselves up to the internet- an increasingly public and easily accessed by "big brother" or anyone else wishing to impersonate our calligraphic fingerprint...

rant of a Luddite

[Stateoflies2010]

what's the song?

[usajh1]

@Stateoflies2010

Song: Mozart: Rondo in D major K485

[Stateoflies2010]

i suppose...

[Stateoflies2010]

i suppose...

[Stateoflies2010]

"recover apart of our identity we lost online" or offering more of ourselves up to the internet- an increasingly public and easily accessed by "big brother"

The rants of a Luddite

[Stateoflies2010]

"Recovering the identity I've lost online"... or further offering up who i am to the online- increasingly public, easily accessed by "big brother"- world.

Rants of a Luddite



[wolfybunny]

or you could just send a letter that you wrote...by hand. weird concept.

[wednesdaymac]

You do know that children are no longer being taught to write cursive? It's printing only. So handwriting is a lost art - it's going the way of the fountain pen: a luxury not many want to afford. Or the dodo - entirely extinct.

[endlightend]

What has our world come to????

[ecucksey]

Why would they give you a free font? It's a company that's in business to make money.

[hihiou0zabimaru]

I'm not saying this is the worst ad ever - they do seem to have simplified the process for people - but this really isn't a new thing. Still nice I guess, what really bothers me is all this "using computers makes everything lose its personality/soul/identity"-tal­k. That's just empty talk people like to repeat because you sound so deep, retro-hip and "unique" if you jump on the "electronic is soulless"-bandwagon. Screw that noise - words are still words, even if they are easily readable nowadays.

[lolimfalling]

the glory of fonts is they are easy to read, no i do not want to try to decipher ur crappy handwriting.

[Panomition]

How are you supposed to get sweet flowy handwriting like this if you have been typing since 3rd grade in the '90's? There is a catch in this twenty-two...

[Panomition]

HOw are you supposed to get sweet flowy handwriting like this if you have been typing since 3rd grade in the '90's. There is a catch in this twenty-two...

[rjbeeswax]

this site does just that: yourfonts . com ... be careful when you write your letters though, follow the directions exactly.

[rjbeeswax]

test

[peregrinaneonatal]

Hm, looks cool but, I'd like to be able to fill may template using a Wacom tablet. and would be nice if one could save their own handwriting for good, not just in the website... I still like the idea though :)

[onekinkstar]

Can it be scanned instead of using a webcam?

[iPoopypants]

@onekinkstar Yep.

[goodgirlsguide]

so will hackers be able to hijack you person scribe style and do fraud????

[goodgirlsguide]

so will hackers be able to hiack you person scribe style and do fraud????

[RitaProductions94]

Awesome!

[PinkJazT]

Hmmmm not working......

[xpez]

what a way to make pilot pens obsolete...HAHA

[t3rrylin]

So why don't I just write a letter, scan / capture it and send out !?

[xeractus]

Dear Gloria,

What the fuck? You know I can't read your handwriting, I've told you so many times that I'm sick of repeating myself, and now you've got that new iMacbook or whatever the fuck it's called, you insist in using this stupid program to send me "letters" that I can't read. I will no longer be talking to you. Eat shit and die.

Gary

[Timschannel003]

it still looks typed on a computer

[AeroChic777]

Or I could just write on my touch screen on MS paint or something and then send it like that.

[feefafo]

Also, you could handwrite the message, take a picture of it and send the picture in an email.

It would be nice if they just GAVE YOU THE FONT and you could use it for other stuff. The idea's cute, but there so much more you could do!

[wyckedm90]

doesn't the recipient have to have the font in the first place to be able to read it like that?

[gigahead]

it wont flippin work for me, says it cant find template

[adsolecki]

Always duplicate content on stumebleupon.

[1crazy1austrian1]

@JEntlerFoundation song??

[theacorpse]

@1crazy1austrian1 Oh it's definitely Mr Mozart, Rondo #1 in D major K 485 :)

[usajh1]

@1crazy1austrian1 Song: Mozart: Rondo in D major K485

[underneathabodhitree]

that's pretty cool

[pfs113]

5 people missed the LIKE button.

[shefotheking1]

It would be nice if they gave it to you as a font file to use it in everything

[NicoleMEBump]

@shefotheking1 Which applications does this work in? Also, I noticed the demo uses a Mac...does it work in PC?

[kareemowski]

@shefotheking1 myfirstfont[dot]com or j[dot]mp/f257Wj

[bill65761]

@shefotheking1 Did you notice that two of the other videos listed with this one give you the capacity to create a TT font? Just asking, is all.

[ikeml91711]

@shefotheking1 I know! Then I'd consider using it.

[tibianmaster]

Thumps up if this is the MOST genius APP ever.

[adsolecki]

@tibianmaster stop craving for thumbs, it's not you that developed the application.

[sugashack74]

SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW, if they can make a stenograph type device, that you can write on a blank paper and have YOUR ACTUAL handwriting duplicated, while you write as opposed to pre-written font (I am saying, forget typing, start writing) then I would buy it. That would mesh old world letter writing with new world email. THAT would be the end to the post office as we know it.

[lebam333]

Does it let you download your font?

[incrediblehelp]

So very awesome.

[asiakismet]

so dope

[Masterz54]

god damn i cant read anything

[jennycylee]

wow, is it freeware?

[vgcandido]

HOOW! Its GreAT! i want one impress

[ModernModr]

God forbid the things we write be judged by their content

[EarthRimRoamer20]

Yeahhh... that would almost never come out looking as good as it did in this demo video...

[vampireguionbajogaru]

OMG! So nice :DD

[finnwesjohn]

Nice! Now people can be unable to read my handwriting on or off the computer!

[o7p]

@finnwesjohn  hahahah same here ^^

[fuckitporra]

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