I am looking for a specific ‘family’ of fonts. (I am aware this will likely cost money.)

Basically, I need a set of three, related fonts:

  • The first would need to resemble handwriting, but not in cursive. It would have to be print handwriting, done in a clear, straight, and legible style.
  • The second would resemble the first, and would clearly be from the same hand, but also more jagged and rushed. It would be slightly more ragged and uneven, with alternate characters to represent blots, crossed-out letters, ‘i’s and ‘j’s missing dots, and a general feeling of haste or stress.
  • The third would be from the “NOW COMES THE TIME OF THE FINAL BLOOD-PRICE” school of deranged scrawling. Lots of capitals, slanted characters, several different ways to do exclamation points. Maybe some cryptic symbols. Still recognizably from the same hands as the first two, though.

The questions are: what does something like this cost, and where do I buy it from? I don’t need it to be exclusive to me*, but I absolutely want the right to use it commercially, as I please, and only paying a one-time fee for it. How do I get something like that, and from who?

*So, yeah, sure, they could resell it later to other people. I think this could be a decent resource for horror gaming or writing.

Moe Lane

5 thoughts on “I am looking for a specific ‘family’ of fonts. (I am aware this will likely cost money.)”

  1. There was a whole class on Font-design for my college’s GraphicArts program. I expect most artists on Fiverr or some similar gig websites could hook you up with something.

  2. While a font is effective for the first point, for the other two a font is going to lack the irregularity of actual hand writing even with a few swappable characters for variety.

    Might I suggest hiring a calligrapher to actually hand-write the pieces?
    They charge by the hour, have a variety of nibs and inks readily available, and will give the work a flair no machine can match – (and produce beautiful originals your heirs can auction in the future as well).

      1. Used to be a font workshop.. astigmatic one-eyed monk or something… they had a couple fonts in families that’d work.

        Haven’t gone looking for ‘em in years… haven’t needed ‘something other than papyrus but funky’ .. for years.

        Mew

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