Question about the writing?

[narmowen]

For their journal entries, does any know anything about them?  (Like if people wrote them, or are they computer generated)?

I'm rereading them (after 10 years...), and I'm getting curious about some of this!

Comments

[euphrosyna]

When I wrote to Ann M Martin back in the day, I asked that and she replied that they were done by artists at the publishers.

[musical_junkie]

They couldn't have been custom type-faces, because, if you look closely at them, there are inconsistencies in the individual letters.
Even the names at the tops of the pages in the Super Specials are different some times.

[cassandraclue]

They were all done by one guy in the scholastic art department. The ca diaries were typefaces, however.

[aimeewins]

I always did think the same person did them all, too many of the girls' handwritings looked similar...

[ivy_ink]

I have to admit, when I read this question I thought you were talking about the actual content of the entries, not the typeface. So I'm thinking, gee I'll have to go back and reread some and see what looks computer generated about them. Like they were madlibs or something.

"Today I sat for (name of client), and boy, you won't believe what happened! (Client name) is going through (typical childhood phase)! But I'm not going to tell (client's parents) because I think I can handle this all on my own!"

[narmowen]

:D That could work also!

[jessicarae729]

Totally thought the same thing. I was expecting the first comment to be "Um, what do you mean???" because man, I didn't get it.

What the post actually meant makes much more sense. I think I need to go to bed early tonight.

[kazeldya8]

I thought the OP meant that the content was computer-generated, too... like a monkey spitting out Shakespeare... was definitely confused.

[miss_myu]

The artist who did the handwriting is acknowledged in the back of Graduation Day.

[coendou]

Hm, yep. "Holly Tommasino, who created and executed all the handwriting for the characters."

[narmowen]

Thanks! I didn't read (or buy) any of them after #100, so I missed out on a bit, I think!

[loubeelou]

That's pretty impressive, to do so many different handwritings.