Zodiac Killer Font, Pt. III
This is the last of the three fonts of the Zodiac Killer font series. I now shall be free. From this day on I shall go my ways peacefully again.
I don’t now what’s all about this Zodiac thing but although Arthur Leigh Allen is long dead now it is still fascinating how everything floating around the Zodiac case creates a vortex of mania that sucks up all the people getting involved with it.
San Francisco Chronicle Author Paul Avery who was writing about the case became an alcoholic, Inspector David Toschi who spent about a decade on the frustrating case got bleeding ulcers. Cartoonist and writer Robert Graysmith poured all his soul into his two books he was writing from the early 1970′s until 2003 about the Zodiac, rather than into his family and hence wrecked two marriages.
And me? I’ve read Graysmith’s books during the summer, still haven’t quite finished on Zodiac Unmasked. I have always been insomniac but the last few days I was haunted by the abnormal characters of Zodiac’s handwriting that wanted me to be assembled in a font. I couldn’t escape, I had to finish it in order to regain some inner peace. I’ve even paid for hi-res scans of most of the Zodiac letters as a reference because I had to learn Zodiac’s handwriting and “synthesize” some characters myself. I hope that you don’t notice the ones I faked… but on the other hand: Emulating the handwriting of an insane mass murderer is kinda disturbing. I don’t dare writing about the nightmares I had from reading all the nasty things in the letters! Anyway if you like the font, a little donation would be appreciated.
The Font
Click here for a the complete character map and enjoy the ligatures!
All English characters plus numbers are part of the font, as well as the most common punctuation characters and some special characters.
The font is OpenType and can be used on both Macintosh and Windows 1 based operating systems. Actually I strongly recommend using the font in an environment that supports OpenType such as Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator rather than Word or some crap like that.
The font has loads of ligatures for nearly all the double consonants and numbers, small words and features context sensitive character substitution under the hood so that it looks more like natural handwriting than like repeating glyphs all over. If you don’t really understand what I was raving about: Don’t worry: Just write and watch how the glyphs in your text flip for best results — as long as OpenType features are activated. I just love scripting fonts!
For the Zodiac logo type (+).
An Example
Or click the thumbnail icon to this post on the top of the page for a comparison.
Donation & Download
The font is donation ware. So if you want to say a little “thanks” by donating money that would be really nice. Thank in advance!
 the Zodiac OpenType Font |
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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Austria License.
- Vista 32- and 64 bit-ready, although the preview window has some troubles displaying the correct kerning of the letter i. Just ignore it, it works fine within the text. ↩
Comments
derek (Apr 28, 2009)
It’s OK. It appears I have half a brain and sorted it in less than one minute. WOW. I must go lie down now.
Derek
sir jorge (Jul 16, 2010)
quite the interesting thing, i never thought about it