Site that helps you write like a rock genius
MUSIC lovers who want to be more like their idols can copy their handwriting by using a new website.
It has created fonts based on the longhand of five dead songwriting legends which fans can download for free.
The site, songwritersfonts.com, uses the correspondence and notes of David Bowie, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg.
French creators Julien Sens and Nicolas Damiens said the point was to inspire new talent.
They explained yesterday: “Songwriting is about inspiration. Now you can write songs as the ones who inspired you before.
Elegant
“Writing lyrics with the handwriting of influential songwriters helps imagination to develop. Being in the mood of Bowie, Cobain, Cohen, Gainsbourg, Lennon might be purely imaginative but that’s precisely the point.”
Using the fonts shows Nirvana singer Cobain’s scrawl has a manic, childlike quality, while Gainsbourg writes in an elegant italic.
Creepily, some of the font for grunge pioneer Cobain, 27, is from his suicide note.
Last week tributes were paid on the 24th anniversary of his death. He shot himself at home in Seattle, Washington State, on April 5, 1994.
This is not the first time people have had the chance to copy great artists.
Students can digitally recreate the brush strokes of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch for their own artwork with an app developed to inspire new artists.