This font was designed to replicate the symbols found on the artwork and CDs of the FAX +49-69/450464 record label, starting with the album "Amp." The symbols which can not be found on the source were designed as I thought they made sense to be -- although the whole thing doesn't really follow any sensible pattern anyway. There is an old fax font out there, kudos to whoever made that -- though I found it to be inaccurate as far as line width and circle weight.
The font was designed primarily in inkscape, which is an SVG
editor -- and then imported into fontforge, a typeface designer.
All of the characters are derived in some way from this base image:
Right-Click Here and Save As (or Save Link As) to download the TrueType version (UPDATED 2008-09-15)
The following text will show up as the FAX font once you install it:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789
You may notice in the table below that two entries are marked with two asterisks (**) -- the hyphen and the forward slash. On the Move D/Namlook releases, the inside artwork shows Move D/Namlook with the recognizable FAX symbol in place of a forward slash. In the symbol representing that, based on how the parenthesis are designed, I assume this is really a forward slash. On the CD itself, it shows Move D - Namlook with a hyphen character instead of slash or FAX symbol. So I'm assuming the symbol representing that is a hyphen.
The improvised characters are open for discussion as to whether or not they are correct. I think maybe the dollar sign is a bit out-there myself, but that's the best way I can think of making it without breaking continuity. If anyone has a FAX release with a character that I have improvised on, please let me know by sending an email to andrewdk%sbcglobal*net (replace % with @ and * with .). I'm not a completist (and probably never will be) so I don't have all of the CDs to check for any I've missed. Some that I could use clarification on are the hyphen and the comma.
One interesting thing I stumbled on while making this font: The symbol for P is the same symbol that's so prominent on the label, the circle with a smaller one in the upper right corner. I'm assuming Mr. Kuhlmann was clever here; what else could P stand for, but Pete? So if you think about it, all of the albums post-Amp have a big P stamped on their artwork somewhere ;)
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| notdef* | exclamation | double quote* | number sign* | dollar* |
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| percent* | ampersand | single quote* | left parenthesis | right parenthesis |
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| asterisk* | plus* | comma | hyphen / minus | period |
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| forward slash** | 0 (same as O) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| 9 | colon | semicolon* | less than* | equals* |
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| greater than* | question mark | at (@)* | A | B |
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| C | D | E | F | G |
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| H | I | J | K | L |
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| M | N | O | P | Q |
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| R | S | T | U | V |
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| W | X | Y | Z | left square bracket* |
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| vertical bar* | right square bracket* | underscore* | a | b |
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| c | d | e | f | g |
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| h | i | j | k | l |
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| m | n | o | p | q |
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| w | x | y | z | left curly brace |
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