NotASchoolPermissionSlipFilter: "hand signed" RBG picture

September 19, 2020 8:34 AM

I have a picture of RBG that I want to frame. I'd like it to be personalized with my name and her name in something that looks like her handwriting, possibly with her "Fight for the things you care about" quote on it. I don't want to sell it, it is fine if the actual artist "signs" it as well to show that it is not authentically RBG's writing. But I can't find anyone who copies handwriting. Who could I pay to do this service and make it look at least 80% like RBG's handwriting?

(FYI, I tried to get this for years from the Court but always would get a kind note back that she no longer signed anything due to things being sold on fleabay)

posted by arnicae to Grab Bag (2 answers total)

I would not do this, but if I were going to do this, I would download as many copies as possible of notes she has handwritten from the internet. Then I would carefully choose letters to submit to one of those "make your own handwriting font" sites and get an RBG font to write the note in. Also download a copy of her signature.

Get it looking the way you want in Photoshop or similar and positioned how you would like it relative to the photo and then print it on a sheet of transparent overhead film, and frame the photo with the transparency in front of it. That way you don't have to risk printing on the photo itself, which may or may not work that well depending on your printer and how the photo was printed. Unless you can easily get more copies of the photo, in which case you may be able to print directly on the photo with some trial and error. Or, if you have a high quality digital version of it, in which case, you could photoshop directly into the photo file and have that printed.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:15 AM on September 19, 2020 [3 favorites]

Or you could go on dafont and pick a fairly plausible handwriting font like this one or this one and just go ahead with it. It's the meaning of the words (and legibility) that matter.
posted by zadcat at 11:07 AM on September 19, 2020 [1 favorite]