Penfont

Penfont turns your handwriting into a font you can type with in Pages, Keynote, TextEdit, Figma, and anywhere else on your Mac.

How it works

Print the template, write each letter in its box, and take a photo. Penfont finds every letter, lines it up, and builds a working font in seconds. Or start from pages you've already written, like a journal entry, a letter or a note, and Penfont reads the words itself (beta).

Fix any letter

Move a letter, resize it, clean up a stray mark, or redraw it entirely. Letter variants mean repeated letters (like the two Ls in "hello") don't look stamped from the same mold.

A real, complete font

Export a standard .ttf or .woff file, or install it with one click. Add a Light and Bold weight from the same handwriting. Your font works like any other font on your Mac.

Private by design

Everything happens on your Mac. Your photos, your pages and your font are never uploaded. No accounts, no tracking.

$12.99 once; one license works on up to three Macs, and updates are included. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel.