Re: Solorekkid Idea Crappe.
Yarr, for giggles you could also play with cutting a sharpie with an xacto, into a chisel tip for a bit of an olde calligraphic swagger feel.
Somewhere around here i actually have all of my proper nibs and holders for old timey scrawling. I don't think i have any ink left though.
In the olden days i used to love scanning shit and making proper vectors out of it to use. Streamline, as simple and single-minded a program as it was, was one of my all time favorites. In conjunction with Illustrator, the sky was the f'ing limit. For stuff for print, being able to make vectors out of freehanded whatever-the-fuck-i-wanted, was dope.
Last i heard, they just stuffed the Streamline functionality into one of the more recent photoshops i think? I am still operating on an a now-ancient copy of CS2 for that tho. The newer ones seemed a bit too much, too much. Even CS2 is a bit behemoth, IMO, space-wise, for what i use it for these days.
And i also had a few random handwriting fonts back in the day. Sam Houston was one of them, and i think also Pushkin, and a couple of random ones i don't now remember. Unfortunately not all of them had all of the letters represented, so one had to choose carefully on an application-by-application basis, which one might be made to work.