French graphic designers Julien Sens and Nicolas Damiens have transformed the handwriting of musicians David Bowie, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg into free-to-use typefaces....

"We developed the songwriter fonts with the idea that it could help a songwriter's imagination to develop by writing in the handwriting on legendary musicians – it's like playing on John Lennon's piano or Kurt Cobain's guitar," said Sens and Damiens....

"The first thing was to find as many handwritten documents as we can to find the while alphabet for each of them. It was a time-consuming work but we're so grateful to have finally found the missing letters after hours of investigation," they said.

Each symbol was then reproduced digitally using a font software. "The most difficult ones to work on were Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg, because it took time to shape every letter so that they can link to each other," explained the designers.