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Scanahand 9

Version 9.0.0.323 released on April 24, 2025

A five-star rating for Scanahand according to user reviews
Scanahand interface overview – font generator showing preview of a handwriting font

From $59

Add a personal touch with our font generator

Creating personalized fonts has never been easier or more enjoyable. Scanahand effortlessly transforms your handwriting into professional-quality fonts compatible with Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and websites. Your unique fonts integrate seamlessly with popular design and word processing software, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Figma, and many others.

Microsoft Windows

Creating your custom font is easy:

  1. Print the Template: Use the provided Scanahand template.

  2. Draw Your Characters: Fill in each character clearly with a black marker, felt-tip pen, or your preferred graphic design software.

  3. Scan or Digitize: Scan the completed template directly into Scanahand, or upload digital images from your computer.

  4. Generate: Give your font a name, and let Scanahand convert your completed template into a usable font.
A filled-in handwriting template being scanned in Scanahand

Scan your template directly from within our font generator, or select pre-scanned images stored on your computer.

Scanahand generating a font from a scanned template
Generating the font takes only a few minutes depending on the selected template and your computer speed.
A newly generated handwriting font being previewed and tested in Scanahand
After the font is generated you can preview and test your font. If you are satisfied with the results you can directly install the font from within Scanahand
Scanahand's template editor, used to choose which characters a template contains
The premium edition includes a template editor that lets you define your own templates so you can decide which characters will be included in your fonts.
Scanahand's Adjust Metrics feature setting the spacing and kerning of a handwriting font

The font generator comes with an innovative Adjust Metrics feature, that will find the best optical space before and after each Latin-based character. Optionally add kerning to your font.

A copyright notice and designer name being added to a font in Scanahand

Embed your unique signature into your fonts by incorporating personalized details such as a copyright notice and the name of the font designer.

What They're Saying

Liebherr

I needed to easily create fonts for industry standard symbols and Scanahand was the solution to this problem.

Douglas Rilee

We would love to hear what you like about our font generator Scanahand. Let us know, so we can add it here. Thank you for your support!