The historical source to Bad Situation comes from “EXAMPLES OF MODERN ALPHABETS, PLAIN and ORNAMENTAL; including German, Old English, Saxon, Italic, Perspective, Greek, Hebrew, Court Hand, Engrossing, Tuscan, Riband, Gothic, Rustic, and Arabesque, etc.”

Collected and engraved by F. Delamotte, and first published in 1864. The original alphabet was called “Example Alphabet” (plate 48), by Delamotte.