The sleeves wew done by Slim Smith at Designland. He used to boast he could design a record sleeve in an hour. If you look at Mute sleeves from the same era you can see the design similarities. I'm guessing he used quark on a Mac. What was the state of pro DTP in the late 80s early 90s? Andy
I checked the Swiss 921 font you mentioned, but that is not the one either:
- The capital 'F', 'E' etc. are much wider, the horizontal lines are too long - The capital 'K' is not as symetric as KLF's, the two diagonal lines collide too far to the top of the vertical center of the character itself. - The 'M' is vertically too thin
Perhaps they did use it for some of their smaller texts as Compacta is really not suited for that, that /is/ worth a little investigation...
All in all, when looking at the WhatThatFont website, the Compacta really matched the 2K single's sleeve the best! Ofcourse, it could be that the font renders a little bit differently on a Mac than on a Windows PC, that maybe explains the little weeny differences there are in spacing of the characters...
And remember, the KLF used a Atari ST back then, perhaps they made their sleeves on it too? Perhaps we should be looking for a Atari font then?
Oh well, what a nice discussion this is, 100% KLF mailing list in action once again :)
---- Mange <liberationloophole@yahoo.se> schrijft:
I think they use two fonts from the Helvetica family tree Check for the characteristic "4" that appears on the back of SPACE and most of the singles:
www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/helvetica-inserat/familytree.html
I used the Swiss 921 when i did the back cover to my "The Singles" compilation
The Compacta font is wrong! ;-)
mange
--- Peter Mann <Peter.Mann@tuke.sk> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:31:49AM +0100, Daniel Erlemann wrote:
As far as I can judge it, it's probably a Helvetica Condensed that Bill uses and that the KLF have used on Shag Times for example (inner sleeve). Just a thought...
try sample text:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/compacta/?PREFS_SET[RenderString]=The%20K LF
and
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/helvetica-condensed/?PREFS_SET[RenderStri ng]=The%20KLF
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5o Peter.Mann at tuke.sk
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