{"slug": "show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font", "title": "Show HN: Tegaki – Handwriting animation for any font", "summary": "A developer released Tegaki, an open-source tool that generates handwriting animations for any font by extracting glyph skeletons from raster or geometry data and matching them to known stroke orders such as Hershey and KanjiVG. Tegaki bundles the resulting stroke data into a format rendered client-side, with a plugin system that supports re-styling, stroke-order and direction guides, and effects like burning or flashing text. The creator positions Tegaki for motion-design videos, arguing AI agents still cannot produce convincing handwriting animations for arbitrary fonts and mostly rely on typewriter effects.", "body_md": "I created Tegaki because I know animating handwriting manually is a tedious task, especially in an era where most things are automated.\n\nThe project has a generator that extracts skeletons of font glyphs from raster/geometry data and matches them with known stroke orders like Hershey and KanjiVG. It creates a format that's bundled to be rendered by the client-side renderer.\n\nThe renderer supports plugins to re-style the font or use the stroke data in more creative ways. For example, you could add variations to your strokes, add stroke order and direction guides for learning applications, or create stylish animations like burning or flashing text.\n\nIf you are about to create motion design videos, give Tegaki a try. AI agents still can't create convincing handwriting animations for arbitrary fonts, and mostly rely on typewriter effects. Handwriting animations will give a fresh and unique look to your videos.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921939](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921939)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font", "canonical_source": "https://tegaki.ink/", "published_at": "2026-10-01 14:10:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-01 14:18:01.719349+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Tegaki", "Hershey", "KanjiVG", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tegaki-handwriting-animation-for-any-font.jsonld"}}