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A tour — Write, Letters, Font Three places — Write is where ink goes down, Letters is everything in your hand, Font is where the file gets made. Move between them freely.Getting your font file The Font room assembles your letters into a font file and downloads it. The file is yours to keep, and stays yours.Make your first font Write the letters you're shown, then download the font file. About ten minutes, free, no card needed.The road to your font What each stretch of the road gives your font — lowercase to punctuation, the first build, second versions, joins, and widening the set. Nothing is locked behind "finished."What Inkling does — and what it can't Inkling turns your handwriting into a real font file you can use in any app that takes fonts. It captures your letterforms faithfully; it does not reproduce the continuous flow of a pen across a page.What you'll need to write A touchscreen and something to write with. A tablet and stylus give the truest result; a finger on a phone works; a mouse does not.When we're not sure about a letter Sometimes the read of a mark is uncertain and we say so. Confirm it or write it again — it is a question, not a fault.Writing your letters Write each letter the way you normally would, at the size you normally would. Natural beats neat — the font is only as much like you as the writing you give it.Writing well
Finger or stylus Both work. A stylus carries pressure so your line thickens and thins; a finger gives an even line. Pick one and stay with it for a font.Getting the best from your font The habits that make the biggest difference to how much your font looks like you, in order of payoff — and where the tier genuinely changes the result.Punctuation and marks Write each mark where it would fall in a word — a full stop on the baseline, an apostrophe up high. Position is the whole meaning of a mark.Redoing a letter Open the Letters room, pick the letter, write it again. There is no limit and no penalty, and your font picks up the change next time you make it.What counts as a flourish A flourish is a version of a letter that reaches further than your other versions of the same letter, with a thin sweep at its start or end. You decide which versions are flourishes, and where they appear.What the guide lines are for They show where a letter sits and how tall its body stands. They are a guide, not a box — tails and loops are meant to cross them.What's missing The Letters room shows every letter in your hand and every one still waiting. You can make a font before finishing — missing letters fall back to another font when typed.Writing at your natural size Write the size you would on paper. The surface is large to fit every hand, not to be filled — writing bigger than usual changes your letterforms.Writing the letter we asked for When the prompt shows A it wants a capital A, not a lowercase one. Capitals and lowercase are separate letters in a font.Your a's — versions of a letter Nobody writes the same letter the same way twice. Several versions of a letter let your repeats vary, which is what makes typed text read as written.Making it look right
Letters sit too high or too low One letter floats above the line or sinks below it. Almost always that letter was written away from the baseline — rewrite it sitting on the line.My font doesn't feel like my hand Usually one of three things — you wrote more carefully than you normally do, the font is Free so repeats don't vary, or a few letters are pulling the whole thing off.One letter came out wrong A letter shows the wrong shape, the wrong case, or carries a stray mark. Open the Letters room, check what was captured, and write it again.Repeated letters look identical Type "letters" and both t's are the same shape. Either the font holds one form per letter, or the app you are viewing it in ignores the variation.Some letters are missing Either you haven't written them yet, or they're beyond what your tier builds. The Letters room shows which.The joins don't show Your cursive comes out as separate letters. Either the font is Free, which carries no joins, or the app is ignoring them — PowerPoint always does.The spacing looks too wide or too tight Pro spacing is measured from your own writing; Free spacing is even by design. If it reads loose, the cause is often missing joins rather than the gaps themselves.Going deeper
A character's own page One character, every version you wrote of it, and a few real words set in your font as it ships. What each button does, what the marks on the versions mean, how to see one version in words, and what is Pro.How much of your hand How many characters your font covers — everyday letters, or the accents, currency and marks beyond them. Chosen per font, and you can widen it later.What a join is In connected handwriting, letters flow into each other. Add join pairs only if your writing really connects — write each pair once, and Pro font files use them wherever they appear.What a resting font is When a Pro month ends, extra fonts rest — nothing is deleted, writing works everywhere, and one font stays open. A new month wakes them all.Plans & account
Billing, changing and cancelling Everything is handled from your account settings. Pro is bought outright rather than as a rolling subscription, so there is nothing to cancel.Deleting your account and data Delete your account from settings and your writing goes with it. Font files you already downloaded are on your computer and are unaffected.Free and Pro — what's different Free gives you a real font of your handwriting for personal use. Pro adds your joins, several forms of each letter, spacing fitted to your hand, the proof, the extended characters, the web file and the ink image, more fonts, and commercial use.Trying Inkling without an account You can start a font with no sign-up. A free account keeps it; unsaved trial fonts are cleaned up after a while.What happens when your Pro month ends Every font you've downloaded stays yours and keeps working. Your writing stays in your account. New fonts you make go back to Free.What Pro adds to your font Your joins, several forms of each letter, fitted spacing, letters that sit together, the proof, the extended characters, the web file and the ink image, more fonts, and commercial rights. What each one changes, and when the difference is worth it.What the proof does The proof reads your font one character at a time, shows the ones worth a second look in real words, and changes nothing unless you choose. It is part of Pro.Your account and signing in Sign in by email, Google or Apple. Your fonts belong to the account, not the device, so you can write on a tablet and download on a computer.Your Studio beta window Studio beta access is a time window. When it ends, everything you made stays yours — capture returns to the letter rooms, and every font and download keeps working.Something's wrong
Contact us Tell us what you were doing, what happened, and what you expected. Include your font's name, your device and the app you saw it in.I installed it but an app can't see it Nearly always: the app was open when you installed. Quit it fully and reopen. If it's there but looks wrong, you may have an older version selected.It looks different in one app Apps differ in how much of a font they apply. In any app that can use your font your letters are correct; the kerning, joins and variation are what some apps drop. Google Docs cannot use it at all.My font didn't build Making the font failed or refused. Usually too few letters, a daily limit, or one letter the build could not use — the message says which.The canvas won't take my writing Nothing appears, strokes break up, or your palm leaves marks. Usually the device or the instrument rather than the app.The download didn't work The file did not arrive, or arrived and will not open. Usually the browser put it somewhere unexpected, or the device needs a font installer.