The Fall online - The MES Handwriting Font

the MES handwriting font updated 17 February 2018

Paul Wilson, typographer to the stars, has pieced together the excellent but rather spooky Mark E Smith font:

Download the True Type font for PCs here (self-extracting .exe file)

Download the Mac version here (should work again now)

HPAK sample

To install the PC version, double-click mesttf.exe to extract the files somewhere temporary. Then go to Control Panel, Fonts, and Install Fonts... from the File menu. Navigate to the right directory and click okay. It's then ready to use! We've had a few problems getting Word 97 to recognise the font correctly, but everything else we've tried it on works okay.

It seeems to be that Word 95/97 doesn't recognise the font straight away, and substitutes the default. I think this can be fixed by:
In a new Word document, type in a bit of text in the MES font (which will show up in e.g. Times Roman).
Go to Tools, Options, Compatibility, Font Substitution. Instead of it converting to "Default", change this to "Mark E Smith". This has worked for me anyway - let me know if it doesn't.

Instructions for downloading font on a Mac - double-click the downloaded .zip and then double-click "Mark E. Smith.suit" to install.