Hari Sans
A hand-drawn typeface, and a template that turns your own handwriting into a shippable font.
A font that admits it was drawn by hand
Most typefaces hide the hand that made them. Hari Sans does the opposite and keeps the wobble in. It started as my own handwriting and became a tool: a template anyone can fork to turn their lettering into a real, installable font.
“Wobbly baselines, uneven strokes, and genuine imperfection. Just like writing with a pencil in 3rd grade.”
— Hari Sans
Handwriting in, production font out
Drop your glyph sources in (Glyphs or UFO/Designspace), set the metadata in config.yaml, and run make customize. From there a GitHub Actions pipeline builds the fonts and runs FontBakery QA against Google Fonts specifications. What comes out the other end isn't a toy. It's a font that passes the same checks the real foundries ship under.
The result is the warmth of handwriting with the rigor of a production type project, released under the SIL Open Font License.