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BOSTON wrote:

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

With the new MP empathsis, I would think there might be typed in courier messages by the players.

True, but if Norb and team are on top of things, the messages will appear in a period font.

When I was in grade school we used scatch pens and ink wells exclusively, ink blotters were a must to prevent smudging, pencils were to be only used for math, this was about 100 years after the Civil War. Written courier messages should of only been written with scratch pens, I think.

BOSTON

I also went to grade school in the 50s and learned to write "cursive" using a pen I dipped in an inkwell which was held in a hole in the top right corner of our desks. My drafting kit at Penn State in the 60s also came with ink pens, but we never used them.

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote: True, but if Norb and team are on top of things, the messages will appear in a period font.

When I was in grade school we used scatch pens and ink wells exclusively, ink blotters were a must to prevent smudging, pencils were to be only used for math, this was about 100 years after the Civil War. Written courier messages should of only been written with scratch pens, I think.

BOSTON

I also went to grade school in the 50s and learned to write "cursive" using a pen I dipped in an inkwell which was held in a hole in the top right corner of our desks. My drafting kit at Penn State in the 60s also came with ink pens, but we never used them.

Then you should know what I'm getting at with the fonts, Ya know I kind of miss that style of writting.

The courier messages font is definitely the "old school" style.

at school in the 60s & 70s we had plastic inkwells set into the desks but always used pencils and cheap ballpoint pens (biros)

the inkwells were only ever used as missiles

what is a scatch (sic; scratch?) pen?

Fish_au wrote:

at school in the 60s & 70s we had plastic inkwells set into the desks but always used pencils and cheap ballpoint pens (biros)

the inkwells were only ever used as missiles

what is a scatch (sic; scratch?) pen?

A scratch pen was a slang term for a fountain pen. Pulled up this site for you, it maybe of some help towards your question.

http://www.luttmanns.com/pens/intro.html

BOSTON

BOSTON wrote:

Fish_au wrote:

at school in the 60s & 70s we had plastic inkwells set into the desks but always used pencils and cheap ballpoint pens (biros)

the inkwells were only ever used as missiles

what is a scatch (sic; scratch?) pen?

A scratch pen was a slang term for a fountain pen. Pulled up this site for you, it maybe of some help towards your question.

http://www.luttmanns.com/pens/intro.html

BOSTON

The pens we used in school weren't "fountain" pens. I think of fountain pens as having an internal ink reservoir. We had to dip the tip of the pens in the ink well, write for a few seconds, and dip again. Just like the civil war era pens.

Little Powell wrote:

The courier messages font is definitely the "old school" style.

That's good news LP. And for those interested in the old school of penmanship...

http://www.iampeth.com/lessons.php#spencerian

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

Fish_au wrote:

at school in the 60s & 70s we had plastic inkwells set into the desks but always used pencils and cheap ballpoint pens (biros)

the inkwells were only ever used as missiles

what is a scatch (sic; scratch?) pen?

A scratch pen was a slang term for a fountain pen. Pulled up this site for you, it maybe of some help towards your question.

http://www.luttmanns.com/pens/intro.html

BOSTON

The pens we used in school weren't "fountain" pens. I think of fountain pens as having an internal ink reservoir. We had to dip the tip of the pens in the ink well, write for a few seconds, and dip again. Just like the civil war era pens.

AJ

When I was doing a search there wasn't (I could not find) a good discription about scratch pens, so I figured the fountain pen would suffice for now, although it is a scratch pen. The cheap black wooden ones, with the replacible tips being the common school issue of the day back then, I could not locate.

BOSTON

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

With the new MP empathsis, I would think there might be typed in courier messages by the players.

True, but if Norb and team are on top of things, the messages will appear in a period font.

we've done some testing with handwritten fonts and the limitations of the game engine has made it necessary to go with a more modern font so that the characters would be readable; nevertheless, we used a looser, more natural-style font for the handwriting - it's a good balance between being plausible and readable.

Louie Raider wrote:

Amish John wrote:

BOSTON wrote:

With the new MP empathsis, I would think there might be typed in courier messages by the players.

True, but if Norb and team are on top of things, the messages will appear in a period font.

we've done some testing with handwritten fonts and the limitations of the game engine has made it necessary to go with a more modern font so that the characters would be readable; nevertheless, we used a looser, more natural-style font for the handwriting - it's a good balance between being plausible and readable.

Did you include signatures?