yeah, I was thinking his journal—the pages are photostats of his actual journal and available at any bookstore—was a big enough sample to get his hand down. Including the suicide note as an example in the pic on the typeface website seemed really off.
I don’t think it ought to be illegal, but “I can make writing that looks like the famous person’s writing” seems pretty shallow to me. Publicity about “inspiring new generations” aside, it just comes off as pointless celebrity worship. A Bowie tee-shirt is one thing (and I’m increasingly less hyped about that kind of thing these days, too) but to me the only cool part about these typefaces was the proof-of-concept that a person’s handwriting can be made into a passable computer font. And that’s been done before, anyhow.
