Live Preview iType text to preview your font. Alternates auto-rotate on repeated letters.
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Select characters for a new template, or skip directly to upload if you already have a printed template.
Upload photos of your completed template pages, or connect your phone to scan directly.
Align the crosshairs with the template markers.
Adjust until letters are clean. Click a letter for a larger preview.
GlyphForge turns your hand-drawn letters into a working OpenType font with real contextual alternates. Here's how:
Run GlyphForge_ArtboardGenerator.jsx in Illustrator (File → Scripts → Other Script). This creates artboards for every letter, number, and symbol, including alternate slots.
Draw each glyph on the "Glyphs" layer. Alt artboards have a colored border. Guide labels sit above the artboards and won't be exported.
Use File → Export → Export for Screens in Illustrator (SVG format). Or run the GlyphForge_Exporter.jsx script to skip empty artboards automatically.
Drop all SVGs into the drop zone. They auto-match by filename. Adjust spacing, tweak per-glyph bearings by clicking any glyph, then hit Export .OTF!
These ExtendScript files work with Adobe Illustrator 2020+ (File → Scripts → Other Script):
⬇ Download GlyphForge_AI_Scripts.zipContains GlyphForge_ArtboardGenerator.jsx and GlyphForge_Exporter.jsx