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A Perfect Circle’s Awesome Rune Font

5 November 2008 12,610 views 19 Comments

A Perfect Circle Font

Its been over 8 years since the debut of A Perfect Circle– a band which took the songwriting skills and subtle guitar work of Billy Howerdel and the mournful vocals of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and fused them into an artistic whole. Unfortunately, the supergroup has disbanded and all members have moved on to other projects…

Mer De Noms, APC’s first album (and surely one of the most beautiful albums of the decade) showcased remarkable artistry, from the hard-soft dynamic, 6/8 timing to the liberal use of atmospheric effects.

The CD art included cryptic characters which were revealed to be a substitution font for English letters. Here is the key. The phrase on the cover is thus translated to mean:
“LA CASCADE DES PRENOMS”, i.e. “The Waterfall of First Names”.

The font, called “APC text”, or “Elegant Mayan” has been used in several places, ranging from artwork to tattoos, but for some reason has been very difficult to find on the internet. I dug up this .ttf file on archive.org for those interested:

>>>Download A Perfect Circle font

To use, download the above file and put it in your “Fonts” folder found in the Windows control panel. Then look for the font name “runes” in MS Word, (or whatever program you are using) and type in uppercase letters for the APC runes.

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19 Comments »

absinthechamber said:

Thanks for the font!

# 10 November 2008 at 2:20 am

Axayacatl said:

gracias por la fuente, hace tiempo que la estaba buscando : )

# 25 November 2008 at 1:18 am

wormwood (author) said:

No Problem…

# 25 November 2008 at 5:45 am

mrstallica said:

thanx a lot man! i really needed this! HELL YES!!! APC!!

# 18 January 2009 at 4:44 am

Valentiores said:

so I’m not only one to have “translated” the symbols on “sea/the waterfall”? dang

thanks for the font.

# 4 March 2009 at 5:28 am

RACHEL said:

I am trying to find a way to put these into Word for later use. Is it possible? I cant seem to find out how to do it. Help!

# 14 March 2009 at 6:45 am

Joseph said:

Can someone please email me the font!! Thank you so much!

# 17 March 2009 at 8:59 pm

gökçe said:

hey! thank you very much for the font!

that’s just what I was looking for for my first tattoo!

peace

GK

# 8 April 2009 at 2:37 pm

Allstar4183 said:

I have searched everywhere for this. Thank you!!!

# 11 April 2009 at 3:10 pm

Dave said:

Are these characters copyrighted or is it ok for public use?

# 17 April 2009 at 1:43 am

Blake said:

Rachel,
go to this site

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071031195543AAlOIUy

this helped me install it on my laptop.

# 28 May 2009 at 1:42 am

Monse said:

Question… Is this font actually MAYAN or does it only has the name? Does it actually meant something for the mayan culture??
THANKS in advance

# 12 June 2009 at 6:51 am

absinthechamber said:

Hi, its not really mayan, they are just made up

# 13 June 2009 at 8:59 pm

fernando said:

gracias por el aportazo

# 28 June 2009 at 5:35 pm

Marick said:

@Valentiores
I think the translation is actually “A Waterfall of Names” if you’re talking about the Album Title “Mer de Noms.” (That’s the Latin translation at least.)
@Monse
No the Mayans used a forme of hieroglyphics known as logosyllabics.

# 12 August 2009 at 2:29 pm

andrew said:

thanks for the font

# 2 September 2009 at 10:26 am

Mick said:

Hey many thanks for the up load although I’m having issues with it now.

I uploaded and it worked the first time, now it will not open and I can’t seem to get it to appear in the fonts. Have downloaded and moved to folder at least 10 times now.

# 6 September 2009 at 10:19 pm

Mindfreak said:

This is just wonderful!! Now I’ve been searching for more information and I can’t find who created this runes and when. I’d love to know that, I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes from Adam Jones, but I’m not sure if he was involved. Well if anyone has an answer or some directions to help me find something else, I’ll be glad.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE FONT!!

# 9 September 2009 at 5:24 am