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:

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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:31:49AM +0100, Daniel Erlemann wrote:

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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%20KLF

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and

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/helvetica-condensed/?PREFS_SET[RenderString]=The%20KLF

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5o Peter.Mann at tuke.sk

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