Why collect handwriting on paper instead of drawing on the screen?

Because the most natural version of anyone's hand comes out of a real pen on real paper — and because the person whose writing you want to keep may not be comfortable drawing on a phone. The worksheet lets them write the way they always have; the tracing desk on the writing pad does the digitising afterwards, on your device, with nothing uploaded.

Does the filled worksheet get scanned or uploaded somewhere?

No. There is no scanning pipeline and no upload endpoint — this site is static files. You photograph each cell yourself and load the photo as a faint tracing layer under the writing pad, where it stays in memory on your device and is never stored. The strokes you trace are what become the font.

Printable Handwriting Font Worksheet

two pages, black and white, any paper — though nice paper feels right for this

Four lines, on paper this time

Each cell carries the writing pad's guide lines: dashed lines for cap height and x-height, a solid base line, and a faint line for tails. Small letters live between the middle lines; capitals reach the top; the little corner letter says which character the cell wants. Write naturally — a quick honest stroke beats a slow careful one, on paper exactly as on glass.

When the sheet comes back: photograph it flat in good light, crop one cell at a time, and on the writing pad press trace a photo. The cell's photo sits faintly under the same four lines it was written on, and you draw over it. Ten seconds per letter, and the hand survives.

The long version of the why — digitising a parent's or grandparent's writing as a gentle project — is in the folio Preserving a hand you love. And once the font is pressed, installing it takes two clicks.