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Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

192 points · 91 comments · emilesilvis

  1. analog_daddy · · focus · HN ↗
    I feel people who like this type of blogs and want to try something like a static website would love Styluslabs’ Write <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.styluslabs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.styluslabs.com&#x2F;

    Handwriting is better as SVG if you are writing digitally, and while everyone has their own vector ink based proprietary formats, I like the simplicity and openness of SVG’s!

    1. emilesilvis · · focus · HN ↗
      Very intresting, thank you for sharing!
    2. chrismorgan · · focus · HN ↗
      SVG is completely unsuitable for recording pen stroke data, and fairly unsuitable as a publishing format for handwriting. It’s capable of representing a technical pen&#x2F;fineliner with opaque, constant-width stroke tolerably well, but nothing else. For all other pen styles, you need variable stroke width (for which you have to switch to using a filled instead of stroked path, bloating it hugely and making it essentially uneditable), and also want some degree of variable opacity and&#x2F;or texturing of the stroke (both impossible in SVG).
      1. analog_daddy · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah i think you have a valid point. I did have this issue come up where i was trying to vectorize an indexed png and no amount of playing with different engines and settings gave me a good enough reduction in size. It was essentially treating my handwritten strokes as variable width.
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