Font name: Kroeburn Regular
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Creator: Kiwi Media Group
License type:Freeware
Average price:0
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Description of the font:
Kiwi Media presents...
KROEBERNĘ
Krbern is/was a small town in eastern Germany, in the
Meklenburg-Schwerin area. A good portion of my ancestors are from around
there. Anyway, this font is named such because it is taken from the old
German script used to keep records in that area in the 1700-1800's. It is
extremely hard to read without practice, because the letters on their own
are decipherable but in groups look very odd, and also because it's
someone's handwriting on top of it all.
So what on earth prompted me to do a font of a nearly unintelligble old
German handwriting? My mother. How? Well, she does quite a bit of
geneaological research and comes across this sort of stuff all the time
(which is where I got the original letters I used for this) and she asked
me if I knew of a font she could use on her Mac to approximate it, for
sending examples to her relatives and fellow researchers. I said I
didn't know of one, but took a quick look at the writing and decided that
I could do it, given a few days. So I sat down at fontographer, did some
rough sketches, cleaned them up, and let it go at that. It has
everything that a german script-user would need, including umlauts,
double S's and a few alternate characters.
If you know how to read it and write it, feel free to use it. I'm not
going to charge shareware fees for it because frankly, I don't think the
market for it is big enough :-). Have fun with it.
Eric Oehler
wonko@yar.cs.wisc.edu
Kiwi Media Group.
Kiwi Media presents...
KROEBERNĘ
Krbern is/was a small town in eastern Germany, in the
Meklenburg-Schwerin area. A good portion of my ancestors are from around
there. Anyway, this font is named such because it is taken from the old
German script used to keep records in that area in the 1700-1800's. It is
extremely hard to read without practice, because the letters on their own
are decipherable but in groups look very odd, and also because it's
someone's handwriting on top of it all.
So what on earth prompted me to do a font of a nearly unintelligble old
German handwriting? My mother. How? Well, she does quite a bit of
geneaological research and comes across this sort of stuff all the time
(which is where I got the original letters I used for this) and she asked
me if I knew of a font she could use on her Mac to approximate it, for
sending examples to her relatives and fellow researchers. I said I
didn't know of one, but took a quick look at the writing and decided that
I could do it, given a few days. So I sat down at fontographer, did some
rough sketches, cleaned them up, and let it go at that. It has
everything that a german script-user would need, including umlauts,
double S's and a few alternate characters.
If you know how to read it and write it, feel free to use it. I'm not
going to charge shareware fees for it because frankly, I don't think the
market for it is big enough :-). Have fun with it.
Eric Oehler
wonko@yar.cs.wisc.edu
Kiwi Media Group.
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