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Handwriting Font not-quite-meme
I got the idea the other day to dig up handwriting fonts for all of my characters. This gave me something fun to think about/do when I should have been tagging. /irresponsible
Anyway, these are the results of that search:
The Chief:
He's not called upon to write very often, really, but his writing is pretty clear if a bit cramped. Like most things in his life, it's utilitarian and serves its purpose.
Jack Spicer:
Jack's handwriting is a bit like him: Egotistical, loud, and with a flair for the dramatic. He writes in ALL CAPS with smaller letters where they'd normally not be capitalized. (This is because ALL CAPS is an old habit from writing small on diagrams where it's clearer than messing around with lowercase letters.) There are little flourishes in it (I mean look at the J) and he writes boldly, with big letters.
Bella:
Bella, as of right now, is completely illiterate. If she were to learn to write, it would come out very messy, inept, and scrawling. She doesn't care very much.
Grif:
Grif's handwriting isn't fancy either. Few strokes, pretty legible, otherwise not very interesting. He doesn't put a lot of effort into anything so there's nothing added on here, but it's not a mess. If it were a mess it would be difficult to read later and Grif doesn't need to make himself work harder.
Sharp Tongue:
Sharp Tongue cannot read or write either (though she'll probably learn) but has a greater attention to detail than Bella and would care considerably more. Her efforts would come out clearer.
Vega:
Vega's eleven, and he's never been schooled too hard on penmanship. His letters are basically the right shape but they slant off to the side a bit and jump around a little. It's legible but a little sloppy.
So go ahead and speculate, maybe find some of your own? I had fun. :D
Anyway, these are the results of that search:
The Chief:
He's not called upon to write very often, really, but his writing is pretty clear if a bit cramped. Like most things in his life, it's utilitarian and serves its purpose.
Jack Spicer:
Jack's handwriting is a bit like him: Egotistical, loud, and with a flair for the dramatic. He writes in ALL CAPS with smaller letters where they'd normally not be capitalized. (This is because ALL CAPS is an old habit from writing small on diagrams where it's clearer than messing around with lowercase letters.) There are little flourishes in it (I mean look at the J) and he writes boldly, with big letters.
Bella:
Bella, as of right now, is completely illiterate. If she were to learn to write, it would come out very messy, inept, and scrawling. She doesn't care very much.
Grif:
Grif's handwriting isn't fancy either. Few strokes, pretty legible, otherwise not very interesting. He doesn't put a lot of effort into anything so there's nothing added on here, but it's not a mess. If it were a mess it would be difficult to read later and Grif doesn't need to make himself work harder.
Sharp Tongue:
Sharp Tongue cannot read or write either (though she'll probably learn) but has a greater attention to detail than Bella and would care considerably more. Her efforts would come out clearer.
Vega:
Vega's eleven, and he's never been schooled too hard on penmanship. His letters are basically the right shape but they slant off to the side a bit and jump around a little. It's legible but a little sloppy.
So go ahead and speculate, maybe find some of your own? I had fun. :D
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Sherry's is very neat and by the book, and she prefers cursive to writing in print. Her handwriting doesn't have a lot of personality to it, and it will probably change many times over the next few years.
Being so neat, it's clear that it takes Sherry some time to complete writing notes by hand (not that she minds).
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Arha's delicate and quite ornamental handwriting says that she's been well schooled and is quite intelligent--it also says quite a bit about her creativity. She is a poet, adept at musical arts, and an extremely talented dancer in addition to her martial arts training. Contrary to most Bene Gesserit in her time, she is extremely expressive--and her handwriting shows it.
Bigger version. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v443/illusionarymind/biggerhandarha.png)
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Holly's Gnommish is rather messy - she doesn't really like writing, and since it takes a while to write anything in the language, she tends to just scrawl things out quickly, so she can get back to doing things she considers more productive. She doesn't even tend to write things by hand much, either, since Haven uses computers for almost everything. As for writing in English - Holly's fluent in spoken and written English due to the gift of tongues, and even though she can write in it, since it's not her first language, she doesn't really have the muscle memory for it, so her English can be messy and awkward to down-right illegible, depending on how much time she's willing to take on it and make it look nice.
As for Terry, he tends to write pretty heavy-handedly. He doesn't have great hand writing, but it's legible, at least. Because 2050-Gotham is a no-paper future, he's really more used to just typing then writing by hand, so he doesn't really pay attention to trying to keep things in nice, straight lines like people who were trained to write using lined paper were.
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Wyn writes very quickly, usually while doing something else at the same time-- and it shows. She tends to write in a sort of half-cursive scrawl, connecting some letters and leaving others free, and it's
occasionallyoften completely illegible to everyone but herself. ... kind of like the way her brain works, actually, as she tends to look at things sideways, and her leaps of logic can be completely incomprehensible at times.Hunter at least makes an effort to have his handwriting be legible, which is more than I can say for Wyn. It might be more work for him, but it's less work for everyone else. (He's too polite for his own good, to be honest.) Despite his best efforts, though, he tends to scrawl a little bit, and he's got doctor's handwriting without having a medical degree.
Marcus, oddly enough, has the neatest handwriting of my three characters. He uses very plain, straightforward all-caps, which suit his personality fairly well. (He's not a super-complicated guy, really.) His handwriting's not quite precise enough to be machine-writing, but it's close.
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Sheik: Utterly no-nonsense script with no identifying features. Which is probably an identifying feature in itself, but it does mean that it would be that much harder for anyone to recognise him by his handwriting.
Zelda: The equivalent of flowing cursive (given that Old Hylian syllabary is a cipher of Japanese kana, it'd be akin to calligraphy whereas Sheik's would just be straight lines) - it's a lot more refined, largely due to, well, being a princess. It's not QUITE as neat as it could be, though - the whole body-sharing thing means she still has the handwriting of an admittedly neat ten-year-old.
Writing in English, it would probably be messy as hell for both of them - it's not just a different alphabet, it's a different alphabet SYSTEM. Old Hylian syllabary looks like this. ('Sheik' would be written as 'Shi-ku', and 'Zelda' as 'Seruta' (or, with more letters, as Zeruda).)
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Jamie's handwriting is neat, plain, and utilitarian, much like Jamie himself. I'm guessing he probably isn't really accustomed to writing things out by hand, but when he does he wants it to be orderly and legible, and he's anal-retentive enough to be willing to expend the effort making it so, even if it's easier to just scrawl something out in a hurry.
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Jeka's handwriting is very neat printing, with small letters and slightly larger than usual gaps between them. The UP is a largely paperless society, and Orandians don't actually HAVE hands (or arms. They're giant snakes, people!), but she felt that it was important that she be able to write legibly. Furthermore, it was a good exercise, first to make sure that the cyber-arms Brainy had built for her worked, and second to get used to her new arms after her transformation. It also needled her father a little, which she couldn't quite resist.
Jonas' handwriting is angular, upright, and somewhat dark. He also forms the letters the exact same way each time -- if you stacked up every single "e" he wrote, you wouldn't see any variation; and the same with all of his other letters. It's also very level and legible. Since he can interface directly with computers, he doesn't do much writing, but he thinks that he might like to invest in a diary when he gets back to his universe.
Ax's handwriting, when he takes the time, is light with gentle curves and little flourishes. It slants to the right, and looks a bit like Tolkien's Elvish script. When he's writing fast, it's a little darker with steeper curves, but still slants to the right has the occasional flourish. Both are very level, and neither is particularly legible. He doesn't write much, but you can probably guess if you squint at it for a bit. And damn does it look pretty. For public consumption, he usually prints.
Paco's handwriting is sloppy, but mostly legible. It leans every which way, but mostly to the right -- the dots for his lowercase "i"s are often over the next letter entirely. He tends to end his sentences with a flourish, celebrating a complete thought nailed down on paper. Sometimes he erases his mistakes and other times he scribbles them out.
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Because Yoshimi will be prone to writing in English for a while. Of course, she usually uses Kanji, and her English isn't that great, but when she tries, it's fairly... neat.
Caden's a writer, therefore he MUST have a badass signature. Normal handwriting? Not that pretty.
Luna is spaceycat, therefore has spaceycat handwriting. Also, she is convinced that gernumblies like swirls.
You know that he's tired of writing his name. Or writing at all. Not that his handwriting is bad; it's just... rushed. Squiggly. Zippity-doo-dah. (Zippity-ay, my-oh-my what a wonderful day...)