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Kroebern 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
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.

Eric Oehler
oehler@yar.cs.wisc.edu
Kiwi Media Group.