Kiwi Media Presents...<br />
<br />
DEVOTION<br />
a truetype font for Windows(tm).<br />
<br />
   This font is based off of the brushstroke handwriting of Anton Corbijn, <br />
who designed the cover of Depeche Mode's latest "Songs of Faith and <br />
Devotion."   Each letter was created by scanning, tracing, and importing <br />
from the album cover (with a few minor exceptions...there was no "q", "x", <br />
or "b".  I kinda had to wing it)<br />
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1)  WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?<br />
      Ok, I got into a minor fervor after seeing Mode live in Milwaukee.  <br />
So I hit the nearest scanner and whipped out Fontmonger (yes,  <br />
Fontmonger...I couldn't afford anything more powerful than that at the time).  <br />
This intends to approximate as closely as possible the writing that has <br />
pervaded the covers of CDs and singles.  I've since cleaned it up with <br />
fontographer  <br />
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2) CHARACTER MAPS<br />
    everything is where it should be, with a few minor exceptions.  There <br />
are two kinds of capital for every letter, one mapped to the letter and <br />
one to shift-letter.   This is because Corbijn for the most part didn't <br />
use small letters anywhere except in the word "depeche" on the singles. <br />
The small letters for "depeche" can be found someplace in the alt <br />
characters, but I really don't know where because I've got a lousy <br />
windows keymap utility. # has been replaced by the english monetary pound symbol, and most other <br />
shift numericals produce "D" and "M" in a box, a la "D" and "M" on the SoFaD CD<br />
cover.   The bracket keys { } [ ] produce "icons" derived from the purple paint<br />
 swashes also on the cover.  tilde produces a DM logo. <br />
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3)  WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?<br />
    I'm hoping that other DM fans will like this.   I'm also hoping <br />
someone will send me money for this.  $5 american would be nice, as I put <br />
a lot of effort into this.  If you can't afford it, send me some email.  I <br />
also appreciate info about all sorts of music, bootleg CD's,  etc.  <br />
Whatever you can manage.  Contact me via email to get my latest snailmail <br />
address.<br />
<br />
Here's the address:<br />
wonko@dax.cs.wisc.edu<br />
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4) LEGALESE<br />
     Kiwi Media Ltd. is my own little fabrication, dating back to some <br />
Apple ][ stuff I did in the mid 80's.  I actually predate Kiwi Software, <br />
with which I have absolutely no connection.  Anyway, this font may be <br />
distributed freely, as long as it is not modified without my permission.   <br />
I'd like to get credit for my work...<br />
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5) Revision History<br />
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1.0 released November 1993.  Original release.<br />
1.0w First Windows release, December 1993.<br />
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1.01w Fixed a bug in the Windows translation.  (forgot to strip the <br />
					Mac resources).<br />
1.1  Fixed a line height problem with some of the mac characters.  <br />
  				Got Fontographer so I could get some real stuff done. <br />
1.5  Got the characters to have proper ascent and descent on the mac.<br />
2.0w Changed some character maps under windows, added some characters, <br />
just generally fixed the hell out of it. <br />
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Enjoy!<br />
<br />
Eric Oehler