My font doesn't feel like my hand

It's recognizably your writing, but it reads like a stranger. Almost always one of three causes, in this order.

1. You wrote more carefully than you write

This is the most common by far. Asked to write a letter for a font, nearly everyone slows down and produces their best letterform — which isn't the one they actually use. The result is technically your handwriting and doesn't feel like you.

Fix: rewrite a handful of the most common letters — a, e, o, t, n, r, s — quickly and without care, the way you'd write a shopping list. Then remake the font. This alone usually does it.

2. Every repeated letter is identical

Real handwriting never repeats exactly. If the font stamps the same 'e' every time, words like "letters" or "coffee" look mechanical, and the eye reads font rather than hand even when each letter is perfect.

Varying repeats is part of Pro. On a Free font, every letter is a single fixed form — that's the tier working as intended, not a fault. See Free and Pro and Repeated letters look identical.

3. A few letters are off, and they're doing the damage

One letter written at the wrong size or sitting oddly on the line drags the whole page. Because common letters appear constantly, a bad 'e' is visible in every word.

Fix: look through the Letters room for anything that sits taller, smaller or heavier than its neighbours, and rewrite those. Redoing a letter.

Also worth checking

- Mixed instruments — half pen, half finger reads unevenly. Finger or stylus. - Size — if you wrote much larger than you normally do, the proportions shift. Write at your natural size. - Cursive hands need their joins to look right, and joins are part of Pro. A connected hand set as separate letters will always look stiff.

If it's still wrong

Tell us which font and what feels off — "too neat", "letters don't sit right", "spacing" — and we'll look. Contact us.