Einstein's handwriting may soon become a font  

Not everyone can think like Albert Einstein but soon, people can write like him - at least on a computer or a smartphone.

Typographer Harald Geisler and dancer Liz Waterhouse are raising funds for the Albert Einstein font via Kickstarter, and are nearing their $15,000 goal.

 

As of Wednesday afternoon, the project had garnered $11,249 in pledges out of the $15,000 goal. 
 

"Our project honors Einstein’s innovative style of thinking, which was imaginative, rigorous, and playful. The 2015 release also coincides with the centennial of the General Theory of Relativity," Geisler and Waterhouse said.

 

Geisler is a graduate of the University of Art and Design Offenbach in Germany, while Waterhouse earned a BA Physics from Harvard and was a dancer with the Forsythe Company in Frankfurt.

 

Both had been working on the project since 2009, which began when Waterhouse was looking at a text written in a handwriting font on her napkin at the coffee shop, and asking Geisler if he could design one.

 

They then came upon the idea of making a "lifelike" handwriting font by studying the penmanship of innovative thinkers.

Geisler and Waterhouse have until July 14 to raise $15,000 to begin work on the Einstein font. - Joel Locsin /JJ, GMA News