Agent skill · nousresearch
draw-your-font
Turn a handwriting photo into an installable TTF font.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
draw-your-font Photo of handwritten letters in → installable font out. You do the seeing (find and label letters, judge quality); the CLI does all geometry (trace, metrics, font assembly). Never edit SVG paths or coordinates yourself. Setup in Hermes (once per session) The CLI is the pinned npm package draw-your-font@0.1.0 — run it via npx (Node ≥ 18 required, no global install needed): Wherever the examples below show $DYF, use npx -y draw-your-font@0.1.0. Shell variables do not persist between tool calls, so paste the full command each time. Everything runs locally; the user's handwriting never leaves the machine. Photos arrive in Hermes either as a file path in the message or via the gateway image cache — use the actual file path with the CLI. When a photo lands in the conversation with no path, ask the user for the file (the CLI needs a real file, not your memory of the image). Do the visual steps (contact sheets, previews, glyph sheets) by loading the PNGs with visionanalyze. Decide the flow User has no photo yet → offer the template: print, write, photograph. User shares photo(s) of handwriting → main flow below. User pasted an image but there is no file path → you can see it, but the CLI needs a file. Ask them to drag the image file into the terminal (that inserts its path) or give the path directly. Do not proceed from memory. User wants changes to a font built this session → Refine section. Template flow (best quality) Tell the user: print it, write one character per box with a dark pen (0.5 mm+), keep the letter sitting on the solid line, then photograph each page from above in good light and share the file paths. The grid prints in light grey and vanishes during processing - only their ink survives. Main flow: photo(s) → font 1. Segment. Works for template pages and freeform photos alike: 2. Look, then label. Load work/contact-1.png with visionanalyze (one per photo): every detected blob is numbered. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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