KrÜbern 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, º'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.
