What we call things

Plain definitions of the words used here and in the app.

Your writing

Letter — one character in your hand: a, B, 7. Written once, used everywhere it appears.

Mark — punctuation and symbols: full stops, commas, apostrophes, currency signs. Written the same way as letters, but where they sit matters more. Punctuation and marks.

Versions of a letter — several genuine forms of the same letter, from writing it more than once. They let your repeats vary the way real handwriting does. Your a's.

Join — a connection your hand makes between two letters. What makes cursive flow instead of sitting in pieces. The joins don't show.

In your hand — written by you and held in your account. The opposite of missing.

Your font

Your font — the file made from your writing. An ordinary font, the same kind as any other on your computer.

Font file — that file, once downloaded. Install it and your hand appears in every app's font list. Getting your font file.

Working font — the current state of your font, which changes as you keep writing.

Saved version — a state you chose to keep, so you can return to it. Saved versions.

How much of your hand — how wide a set of characters your font covers: Essentials, Everyday or Complete. More.

What's missing — the characters not yet written. More.

The rooms

Write — where you put ink down. Letters — everything in your hand, and what is still waiting. Font — where the file gets made. A tour.

Words — the surface where you write whole sentences rather than single letters, and your letters are lifted out of them. Part of Studio.

Reading your writing

The read — one pass of working out what you wrote. When a read is uncertain we say so rather than guess. When we're not sure.

Kept · set aside · left out — what happened to each piece of writing after a read.