My mom has early onset Alzheimer’s. She was a great artist, an amazing calligrapher, and had several marvelous handwriting scripts. I am getting married early next year and if she were well she would have participated significantly in the preparations, including by addressing the invitations as she had done for others. Alas, she is not well.
But a few weeks ago I had the thought that maybe I could have my mom participate after all. So I gathered together an invitation she’d addressed to me for a cousin’s wedding, some personal letters she’d written to me, and scavenged what I could to build a font in (mostly) her hand. It’s wonderful (and, admittedly, difficult) to see her script resurrected, but it will be a nice way to honor and involve her.
So, thanks Erwin and others, I appreciate what I’m able to do with Font Creator.
(And because she was a perfectionist, I’ll just add in unnecessary defense of the font… It isn’t perfectly representative of her. She had several scripts she used, and all I had of her more formal hand was the one addressed envelope which she had done in a hurry. The name and address covered only a portion of the upper/lower case alphabet. So I had to augment the font with letters from one of her other less formal script styles. And then in a few cases create formal versions with pieces of other formal letters I had. Still, it’s the closest I could get, and I think she’d understand.)
