This font is based off of the brushstroke handwriting of Anton Corbijn, who designed the cover of Depeche Mode's latest "Songs of Faith and Devotion." Each letter was created by scanning, tracing, and importing from the album cover (with a few minor exceptions...there was no "q", "x", or "b". I kinda had to wing it)
1) WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?
Ok, I got into a minor fervor after seeing Mode live in Milwaukee. So I hit the nearest scanner and whipped out Fontmonger (yes, Fontmonger...I couldn't afford anything more powerful than that at the time). This intends to approximate as closely as possible the writing that has pervaded the covers of CDs and singles.
2) CHARACTER MAPS
everything is where it should be, with a few minor exceptions. There are two kinds of capital for every letter, one mapped to the letter and one to shift-letter. This is because Corbijn for the most part didn't use small letters anywhere except in the word "depeche" on the singles (b, g, q, and d are the exceptions). The "depeche" small letters can be found at option-character. "e" is option-q as option-e is a special character. # has been replaced by the english monetary pound symbol, and most other shift numericals are not there. I didn't have enough data to extrapolate what they'd look like. The underscore character creates a box with a very small character width, so the next letter typed will appear inside the box, a la "D" and "M" on the SoFaD CD cover. The bracket keys { } [ ] produce "icons" derived from the purple paint swashes also on the cover. "~" produces a DM logo.
3) WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
I'm hoping that other DM fans will like this. I'm also hoping someone will send me money for this. $5 american would be nice, as I put a lot of effort into this. If you can't afford it, send me some email. I also appreciate info about all sorts of music, bootleg CD's, etc. Whatever you can manage. Email me and I'll send you my current snailmail address.
Here's the address:
wonko@dax.cs.wisc.edu
4) LEGALESE
Kiwi Media Ltd. is my own little fabrication, dating back to some Apple ][ stuff I did in the mid 80's. I actually predate Kiwi Software, with which I have absolutely no connection. Anyway, this font may be distributed freely, as long as it is not modified without my permission. I'd like to get credit for my work...
5) Revision History
1.0 released November 1993. Original release.
1.0w First Windows release, December 1993.
1.01w Fixed a bug in the Windows translation. (forgot to strip the
Mac resources).
1.1 Fixed a line height problem with some of the mac characters.
Got Fontographer so I could get some real stuff done.
2.0w Moved a whole mess o' stuff around in windows so that
windows people could access some of the characters that
the mac people normally use without any problems.
1.5 Fixed some ascent problems on the mac and gave it a
