Handwriting.io VS Dank Mono

This is neat. I'd like to hear a bit about how it works. There is a similar paid API that does something like this https://handwriting.io (seems like they are down now though) I used to use it for print projects back in the day. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Many of the standard handwritten fonts don't always connect properly and still look like desktop typeography. There was a pretty slick application from handwriting.io years ago that used an API that would use different variations of u/c and l/c characters so they looked more realistic. I believe the application would return a variable image file of your address info and used real pen written characters to achieve... Source: almost 2 years ago

Dank mono annoys me except in one spot - conference presentation slides (where it still annoys me, but I can see it being useful). The italics as cursive is annoying - especially with the 's' that shows up in too many places. However, the difficulty of distinguishing italics from regular on a presentation I can mostly forgive it since I can now recognize the italics and that hint to whatever it is trying... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

For programming and code blocks on my blog I use Dank. Source: over 1 year ago