Preparation

Choose dark, consistent ink and plain paper that give a handwriting font clean strokes without glare, bleed, ruling, or lost detail.

Build a handwriting sheet with the letters, digits, punctuation, spacing, and optional characters your first font actually needs.

Capture cursive-style letters as separate glyphs, preserve their slant and strokes, and test joins without assuming automatic ligature support.

Compare scanning and phone photography for handwriting fonts by sharpness, lighting, perspective, speed, and the cleanup each method needs.

Leave enough white space around wide letters, dots, punctuation, and descenders so a handwriting font maker can detect separate glyphs.