By the end of the year, you will be able to write like Albert Einstein (or at least fake his handwriting). A Kickstarter campaign to turn the famous physicist's handwritten script into a font has been successfully funded with more than a month of fundraising time left.
Harald Geisler, the designer who came up with the idea along with Elizabeth Waterhouse (a dancer with a degree in physics), has dabbled in genius handwriting before: He once turned neurologist Sigmund Freud's handwriting into a font. The Kickstarter campaign will allow him to bring the Einstein font, which already exists in a primitive stage, up to a level as lifelike as his Freud font.
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That $15,000 is going toward at least six months of work. To create a font from handwritten script, Geisler traces each letter on a tablet to record a realistic pen stroke, a process that he feels is more effective than simply scanning the written text and letting a computer copy it. Then he manipulates each letter to replicate the fickle nature of real ink, making it catch and drag in a realistic way.
Then he has to do that all over again three more times.