Dearscript vs Draw Fonts

Your handwriting deserves to be more than ink. Dearscript turns what you write with Apple Pencil into a real, installable font — free, with no accounts and no subscriptions. Write each letter once on a guided, notebook-style canvas, and watch a live preview assemble your handwriting into sentences as you go. When you're happy, install your font on your iPad or iPhone and use it in Pages, Keynote, Word, and any app that supports custom fonts — or export the font file and use it on your Mac or PC. HOW IT WORKS • Draw each letter with Apple Pencil on a compact, guided canvas — faint reference letters and typographic guidelines keep everything lined up • Watch the live preview render your own sample text in your handwriting as you draw • Install your font system-wide, or share the font file anywhere MAKE IT YOURS • Five brushes — pen, monoline, fountain pen, marker, pencil — with adjustable width • Pressure-sensitive strokes carry into the finished font: write light, write bold, it shows • Draw multiple versions of any letter and Dearscript rotates them naturally as you type, so nothing looks stamped or robotic • Letter combinations like "th" and "oo" can be drawn as connected pairs for a flowing, natural look • Tune character and word spacing; add designer and license info to the font file itself A REAL FONT, DONE RIGHT Dearscript builds genuine TrueType fonts with smooth curves — not images of your writing. 105 glyphs: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and combinations. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your fonts sync privately through iCloud across your devices. No account to create, no data collected, nothing to pay.

Design your own typeface—or start with 500 open-source fonts already included. Draw Fonts is a private font-design studio for iPhone and iPad. Draw characters with Apple Pencil or your finger, capture lettering from paper, refine every glyph, and preview your OpenType font as you work. Preview, edit, and install included fonts on iPhone and iPad, then use them in Pages, Microsoft Word and other Office apps, Scrivener, and more where custom fonts are supported. DRAW WITH TYPOGRAPHIC GUIDES • Work against cap-height, x-height, baseline, and descender guides • Adjust glyph size, baseline position, and sidebearings • Edit vector outlines for precise shapes • Add multiple forms of a character for automatic contextual alternates CAPTURE LETTERING FROM PAPER • Print a three-page handwriting template • Scan completed pages with the camera or import them from Photos • Convert captured lettering into editable glyph artwork on device • Import TTF, OTF, WOFF2, and variable fonts you have permission to modify REFINE THE TYPEFACE • Create custom kerning pairs and two-to-four-character ligatures • Review spacing and common-pair kerning suggestions before applying them • Batch-edit glyph status, metrics, and artwork • Compare your typeface with the system font and find missing characters PROOF AND ORGANIZE • Preview paragraphs, posters, invitations, comics, and interface text • Export PDF specimens • Keep multiple independent font projects • Duplicate projects, create backups, and restore fonts from Recently Deleted • Browse, preview, edit, and install 500 included open-source typefaces EXPORT REAL FONT FILES • Export TrueType (TTF) and WOFF2 font files • Generate CSS @font-face code and a complete ZIP release package • Create an installation profile for apps that support custom fonts • Preserve designer, copyright, license, version, description, and website metadata PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your handwriting, imported artwork, and font projects stay on your device. No account is required, and Draw Fonts does not upload your font data. Create and explore up to three font projects at no cost. A one-time Lifetime Unlock enables unlimited projects and all export formats. No subscription.