Handwriting is the most personal thing we make
And it's disappearing from the screens where we spend our days. Inkling exists to put it back.
We type thousands of words a day in fonts drawn by strangers. Meanwhile the handwriting that's actually ours — the hand you sign with, the note you leave on the counter — lives only on paper, if at all.
Inkling started from a simple want: to write a message on a screen and have it look like me. Not a novelty script that vaguely resembles handwriting, but my letters, my spacing, my crossed-out-and-redone t. It turns out that's a hard, wonderful typography problem — turning a few minutes of strokes on a tablet into a real, well-behaved font.
So that's what we build. You write your alphabet once; we do the foundry work — outlines, spacing, kerning, the cycling between letters you really wrote that keeps a page from looking rubber-stamped — and hand you back a font that's genuinely yours to keep and use anywhere.
We're small, we're careful about your handwriting (it only ever makes your font, never anyone else's), and we'd rather tell you where a font format hits its limits than oversell what it can do.
Three things we won't compromise
Your hand is yours
You own the font you make, with real rights to use it. We never use your handwriting to build anything for anyone else.
A real font, not a trick
Standard OpenType files that work in real apps — not a filter that only looks right in our own preview.
Honest about the edges
We tell you what a font can and can't capture, and where it renders differently. No magic claims.
Make one that looks like you
Free to start. About ten minutes to your first font.