A Calligraphr alternative built for makers

Calligraphr is a popular way to make a font from your handwriting, but it works by having you print a template, write on it, and scan it back in. Just Get Crafty lets you draw each letter right on screen, and it also gives you a single-line version for Cricut pens, foil quills, and pen plotters, which Calligraphr does not.

Draw on screen, no printing or scanning
Get a single-line plotter and Cricut-pen version, automatically
Plus image-to-SVG, envelope addressing, and plotter tools in one place
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	Just Get Crafty	Calligraphr
How you make letters	Draw each letter on screen, in your browser	Print a template, write on it, then scan or photograph it
Need a printer and scanner	No	Usually yes
Single-line version for pens and plotters	Yes, made automatically	No
Convert an existing font to single line	Yes	No
Trace any image into a cut or draw file	Yes	No
Address envelopes from a guest list	Yes	No
Free preview of the full result	Yes, watermarked until you download	Free tier limits the number of characters
Best for	Cricut, foil quill, and pen-plotter makers	Plain handwriting fonts for typing

Based on each tool's public description at the time of writing. Calligraphr is a trademark of its owner; this is an honest comparison, not an affiliation.

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An honest take on when each tool fits

Calligraphr has been around for years and it is a reasonable choice for one specific job: producing a plain handwriting font for typing, if you do not mind the print-write-scan loop and cleaning up the artifacts a camera or scanner adds. If that is your whole project, it will get you there.

The gap shows up the moment a machine is involved. Calligraphr's output is a standard outline font, so a Cricut pen draws it as hollow bubble letters and a plotter traces every letter twice. There is no single-line version and no way to make one there. Just Get Crafty was built machine-first: every font you draw in the handwriting font generator comes out as BOTH a normal font and a single-line version that pens, quills, and engravers follow in one clean pass.

Drawing on screen also changes how the font feels to make: you see each letter land on real guidelines as you draw it, and you can redraw just the letters you dislike instead of reprinting and rescanning a sheet. Add the surrounding toolkit (image tracing, envelope addressing from a spreadsheet, plotter optimization) and the comparison is really between a single-purpose font generator and a workshop for machine lettering. Both are fine tools; it depends on what you are making.

Questions, answered

Is Just Get Crafty free like Calligraphr?

You can create and preview a full font for free, and our ready-made fonts are free to download outright. You pay only to download the clean files of a font you make. Pro is 6 dollars a month or 48 dollars a year.

What is the main difference?

Two things. You draw letters on screen instead of printing and scanning a worksheet, and you get a single-line version made for Cricut pens, foil quills, and pen plotters, which scan-based font makers do not produce.

I already made a font in Calligraphr. Can I still use it here?

Yes. Upload the OTF or TTF you made there to our font-to-single-line converter and you get the single-line machine version Calligraphr cannot make, while keeping your original for typing.

Which is better for Cricut projects?

For Cricut pens, foil quills, and plotters, a true single-line font is the difference between writing and bubble letters, and Just Get Crafty builds one automatically from your handwriting or any font you convert. For a plain typing font, either tool works.