And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.
Limit free usage to medium-resolution bitmaps and a subset of styles, but make paid downloads available for high-resolution SVG's and a wider variety of styles.
I can also imagine there's a market for ersatz "handwritten notes" from companies that genuinely appear to be handwritten, rather than using a handwriting font -- to license the software itself as some kind of mail-merge plugin or something. Combine it with an autopen or something, and nobody could tell the difference.
Yes, this is already A Thing in marketing, though as you say it currently uses fonts & printing. I hate it and am biased negatively against any company that does this, because their marketing materials lied o me by pretending to be a personal communication, to get my attention for their mass-produced marketing message.
And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.
No way! It should be reverse-engineered and reproduced so that nobody can make money by gatekeeping it. If we can automate the production of handwriting, we must be able to automate the production of automated handwriting generators.
And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.
Limit free usage to medium-resolution bitmaps and a subset of styles, but make paid downloads available for high-resolution SVG's and a wider variety of styles.
I can also imagine there's a market for ersatz "handwritten notes" from companies that genuinely appear to be handwritten, rather than using a handwriting font -- to license the software itself as some kind of mail-merge plugin or something. Combine it with an autopen or something, and nobody could tell the difference.