Why use Times New Roman or Ariel when you could pen your history paper in Kurt Cobain's penmanship? French graphic designers Nicolas Damiens and Julien Sens started the Songwriters Font project by collecting original handwritten letters and notes from the most famous songwriters, then transcribing them into a digital alphabet bank.

“Songwriting is about inspiration,” Sens and Damiens wrote on the website. “Write songs as the ones who inspired you before. The Songwriters fonts have been created to give musicians inspiration.”

The free database includes Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, and Serge Gainsbourg. Each musician's handwriting is surprisingly telling of their art and style. In Lennon's all-capitalized scribble he wrote, "Imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try."

“Writing lyrics with the handwriting of influential songwriters helps imagination to develop. Being in the mood of Bowie, Cobain, Cohen, Gainsbourg, Lennon, might be purely imaginative… but that’s precisely the point,” the website explains.

The next time inspiration strikes, try one of these fonts to boost your creativity.