Type like teen spirit: Artists made computer fonts from the handwriting of Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and David Bowie

It seems that fans have broken another facet of rock star worship: fonts.

An art project called Songwriters Fonts offers users and fans of legendary artists to download fonts that the authors of the project modeled based on the real handwriting of their idols, among whom were Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and David Bowie.

The authors studied handwritten notes and notes of musicians in notebooks to identify patterns in the spelling of letters and even punctuation marks and create a digital handwriting that exactly repeats how musicians wrote on paper. The project is non-commercial, so fonts can be downloaded for free.

Source: Songwriters Fonts

Songwriters Fonts

Another tool for copying the already most imitated musicians? Maybe. But you can play a little with creativity — print a postcard to a friend or write your own text to music.

Songwriters Fonts

Kurt Cobain's notes, according to which his handwriting was modeled, Kurt wrote in these letters

And this is probably how the first verse and chorus of the song Smells Like Teen Spirit looked in Kurt's notebook:

Songwriters Fonts

Notebooks with David Bowie's notes used to createthe Full Bowie Alphabet font

Imbued with the spirit of Bowie, you can rewrite the dreamy chorus from Space Oddity in his handwriting:

Songwriters Fonts

Lennon 's RecordingsTry to guess the song: