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Grail Diary Font and Handwriting
The presentation of your written text can really bring your Grail Diary to life and look like something that was put together by the lifelong work of a 19th century English educated professor or make it look like it was put together by a second grader with a crayon.
Ink
If you plan on any type of page aging after you write or print your diary, you MUST use waterproof ink. Otherwise, entire pages will be ruined during the aging process.
India Ink
For those using a fountain pen, India ink seems to work fine and is resistant to water.
Printer Ink
For those that choose to print text and/or images with a printer prior to binding, note that most inkjet ink will run if you get your page wet.
Some inkjet inks are reportedly waterproof.
Special paper and treatments will allow you to print on paper or cloth so that the ink becomes permanent.
Laserjet printers use high heat to bind toner to paper. This is creates a printed product which is more resistant to water.
Pencil
Certain parts of the Grail Diary have thin lined drawings that appear to be done with a pencil. The consensus is that only the Map with No Names and the few details on the Eschenbach Insert are done in pencil.
Penmanship
If you want your diary to look authentic, you will want to make the journal entries look like they were hand written with a Jones Period appropriate pen and writing style. This can either be done with a special computer font, or manually with a good pen. Grail Diary diehards have spent years developing their writing style to perfectly mimic that of "Henry Jones" as it is portrayed in the Grail Diary props.
Here is an example of the font found in the actual Grail Diary. Note that, like all of us, Professor Henry Jones' handwriting varies a great deal, so some of these letters will vary from word to word. This is in part what makes creating realistic computer font difficult.
www.indyprops.com/cow/cow-henrys-hand.jpg COW 19247
Writing Nibs
Here are some samples of Henry Jones’ Grail Diary handwriting (left column) taken from page 191 of The Star Wars Archive, together with attempts (right column) to reproduce similar writing with three different nibs. The Jones writing has been produced with an italic nib of some sort. In all three samples, we see fine entry strokes and thicker down strokes (see the ‘s’ in the word ‘slight’ in the first sample, for instance).
This is written using a 0.8mm STUB nib, custom ground from a Pelikan B nib by Richard Binder. The entry strokes seem to be a bit too Thick.
This is written using a 0.9mm CURSIVE ITALIC nib, custom ground from a Pelikan B nib by Richard Binder. The finer entry strokes look about right, but the nib is perhaps a touch too broad.
This is written with a 0.8mm CURSIVE ITALIC nib, custom ground on a Rotring Core fountain pen from Pendemonium. This looks quite good, but will perhaps be better once the nib has been written in a bit more.
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Indy Magnoli recommends a .75mm chisel tip nib
Computer Fonts
For those that just don't have the skill, aptitude, inclination or time to perfect their penmanship and fill a diary full of text can give up and use one of many appropriate computer fonts. There are also special fonts for various inserts.
Autograph Lanier, which looks best in italic
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Fountain Pen Frenzy
Used by Sarednab COW 18098
Fountain Pen Frenzy (FountainPen.ttf) fonts101.com
Grosvenor
new.myfonts.com/fonts/sherwood/p22-grosvenor/p22-grosvenor/
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Henry Jones 3
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Henry Jones 3 for XP illogicality.net Cow 13392
Henry Jones 3 V1.50 (HenryJonesXP.ttf) - resaved with FontLab to make it compatible with Windows XP
users.metropolia.fi/~villerep/henryjones3.ttf
Hopper Edward
www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.htm?productid=292914
new.myfonts.com/fonts/p22/hopper-edward/
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Jones Sr Font rac3d JonesSr.zip therpf 85078 COW 32649 cntrctkllr
JonesSr (JonesSR.ttf)
Alternate Letters PC:
Capital A = alt 0197 Å
Capital R = alt 0198 Æ
Capital S = alt 0199 Ç
Capital I = alt 0207 Ï
Capital O = alt 0214 Ö
Capital F = alt 0202 Ê
Capital J = alt 0203 Ë
lowercase w = alt 0230 æ
lowercase f = alt 0231 ç
lowercase n = alt 0229 å
lowercase t = alt 0232 è
My Type of Font
www.dafont.com/my-type-of-font.font COW 35426 Pg9
Used in Indian Telegram insert
farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4494801210_a56849ed17_o.jpg COW 35426 Pg9
Rage Italic LET
new.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/rage-italic/italic/
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
RageJoiD
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Riccio Display Script SSi
(ricciodisplayscriptssi.ttf) COW 50084 - Pinkerton Envelope
Sacre Bleu MVB in italic
new.myfonts.com new.myfonts.com 2
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Shimmer
new.myfonts.com/fonts/bluevinyl/shimmer/shimmer/
www.btinternet.com/~k.h.s/graildiary/
Staccato 222
Staccato 222 COW 26010 - was here www.fontyukle.net/en/1,staccato
img404.imageshack.us/img404/4857/bild10ds0.jpg COW 35658
Staccato 222 BT
Tesla, Regular by Olivera Stojadinovic
www.abstractfonts.com/font/14145 COW 42477
img38.imageshack.us/img38/3791/diaryteslabig.jpg COW 42477
Underwood Champion
imageshack aljawfletterbjbversioncvt3.jpg COW 33083 Used in al-Jawf Letter
Whitechapel BB
Other Computer Fonts for your Grail Diary:
Marcin Szyniszewski The Grail Diary Search
Grail Eastern Telegram (Eastern Telegram.ttf) - Eastern Telegram
Gold Ticket (Gold Ticket.ttf) - Gold Ticket
Grail Tablet (Grail Tablet.ttf) - Grail Tablet
Indian Telegram Rockwell (Indian Telegram Rockwell.ttf) - Indian Telegram Envelope
MSzynisz's Linotext (MSzynisz's Linotext.ttf) - Insurance Co. Envelope
Alte Haas Grotesk - used in Gray Letter Insert COW 36286&start=50
www.dafont.com/alte-haas-grotesk.font?nb_ppp=50&text=51,+CADOGAN+PLACE
Coptic Fonts COW 5138
www.moheb.de/unicode_coptic_fonts.html
babel.uoregon.edu - Dead
DiaryBat Font boardhost COW 2586 COW 1734
1 - the 4/23/27 date found on the New Gospel clipping
2 - al-Jawf's signature
3 - Staubig's signature
4 - globe from the Italian telegram
5 - Henry Jones' signature from the cover
6 - Venezia Italia postal stamp #1
7 - Venezia Italia postal stamp #2 (high-detail)
8 - Three-staved cross used by the Brotherhood/Grail Knights
9 - Same cross, outlined.
0 - Hitler sig #1 (taken from a letter dated 9 May 1938)
- - Hitler sig #2 (taken from an award, I believe)
A - Nazi eagle #1 (I forget where I found this one)
B - Nazi Eagle #2 (taken from Hitler's letterhead)
C - Reisepass stamp #1 (German passport)
D - Reisepass stamp #2 (German passport)
E - German Eagle (German passport cover)
restrainingbolt.com zeppelin-ticket.zip COW 8044 - Fonts for Zeppelin Ticket
Apple Garamond BT (Apgabk.TTF)
Bell MT (BELL.TTF)
Distress (DISTRES2.TTF)
GE Montage (GEMONTAG.TTF)
JSL Blackletter (JBLACK.TTF)
Lufwaffe Regular (Luftwaff.TTF)
HPLHS Vintage Fonts Inserts, Fonts and prop information COW 33174
indyquest.nl - Indy Quest - Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! Malware will/may be installed on your computer.
Henry Jones 3 V1.50 (HENRJ___.TTF)
Crappy Wehrmacht Typewriter (crapwtb.ttf)
Sanskrit (SANSKRIT.TTF)
Font randomization, distortion and aging with Adobe After Effects
img35.imageshack.us/img35/8329/agingcomparison.gif COW 42477
Spelling
There are a few grammatical and spelling anomalies in the Diary. Die hard diarists try to mimic these spelling quirks, but it begs the question. Why would a 19th century Oxford graduate have such poor English writing standards.
Date Format
A Scotsman/Oxbridge grad would use a date/month/year format, as traditionally used in the UK, instead of the month/date/year format used in the United States.
Journal entry dates were used in the Computer Game Grail Diary diary but not in the actual props. Dating scientific journals is useful but is not "prop" accurate to the original Grail Diary prop.
'J.E.H.O.V.A.H.' rather than 'Y.A.H.W.E.H.' stepping stones
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