Scanahand - add a personal touch to your computer
It's never been easier for Windows users to make their own custom fonts. Scanahand creates fonts that you can use in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Notepad, and any Windows application. You can even load your fonts on Macintosh computers.
 How does it work? Simply print a template, draw all of the characters using a black marker or felt-tip pen, and scan your drawing. Scanahand will build your font, and install it on Windows, ready for you to use. You don't need to use additional graphics software, but Power Users and Hobbyists alike can use Scanahand along with their favorite graphic drawing software to create or modify each character of their font. So even without a printer and scanner you'll be able to create custom fonts.
The Standard Edition allows you to create fonts that support English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Estonian, Faeroese, Frisian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Albanian, and Esperanto.The Premium Edition allows you to make and use your own templates. For each template you can define your own character set (for example with Czech or Greek characters), so it allows you to create multilingual fonts.
Key Features
- Personalize your correspondence by creating a font in your actual handwriting
- Add your signature to a font for quick insertion using any Windows program
- Develop a distinctive look for your home and business communications
- Use your own handwriting on letters, greeting cards, and scrapbook projects
- Make a suite of fonts so you'll always put the right face on your correspondence
- Share your fonts with friends and family, on their Windows or Mac OS X computers
- Capture your child's handwriting as it improves over the years
- Save time writing holiday cards, while adding a personal touch
- Design fonts that let your personality shine through
- Turn icons, company logos, or any line art into font characters
- Decide what characters to include in your fonts, with the built in template editor
- Have fun, while exercising your creativity
System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, Me, 98 or 95
- 16MB of available hard-disk space
- 512MB of RAM
- Printer and Scanner, or some additional image editing software
Our software works with Windows only, but fonts created with Scanahand can also be used on Mac OS X and Linux.
User Manual
It really is simple to turn your printed characters into a font. Check out the online user manual, and see how easy it is to use Scanahand. It takes only a few minutes to become creative and productive. Having fun begins immediately.
Comparison Chart
Scanahand is available in two editions. This comparison chart shows the differences between the Standard and Premium Edition.
Purchase
Download the free trial version of Scanahand now, and see how quickly and easily you can turn your handwriting into a font. Scanahand runs in reduced functionality mode during the trial period. When you buy a license you will receive a registration code that unlocks all functionality for the specific edition and makes your copy legal. Scanahand Standard Edition costs $49.00(US) for a single-user license. The Premium Edition, with support for symbol fonts and custom templates, costs $79.00(US).
Visit the Buy page for more information about prices, registration details and to order online.
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User Quotes
“Creating a font with Scanahand was fun!”
Al Harberg
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“MainType is the font manager that should have been built into Windows long ago.”
Robert Barnett
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“I have been able to build a successful business using FontCreator.”
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