Those darn rockstars are so unpredictable. You never know what they're gonna do next. I never expected M. Doughty, singer, guitarist and lyricist for Soul Coughing, to draw a font for me as fast as he did. I guess it helps that I have some of the best font scouts in the rockstar industry working for me.

In this case my font scout was Nicole Blackman. Nicole tracked down Doughty in some hip New York club (probably the Knitting Factory where he used to work in his pre-rockstar days) and told him he had to make a font for me. Then she gifted him with some of her homemade chocolate truffles. With an offer like that, how could any rockstar refuse to draw the alphabet?

The truffles worked their magic, and within a week of Nicole telling Doughty about my Rockstar Font Project, he mailed me an alphabet straight from his room at a Radisson in Pittsburgh. It's a simple font... bold, clean and whimsical, not unlike Doughty's voice. It's distinctive and charming, cartoony, but not too over-the-top wacky. Doughty's penmanship turned out to be every bit as playful and endearing as his smoke-encrusted voice box.

I don't know what Doughty wanted his font to be named. As easy as it was to wrangle up this font, I've found it darn near impossible to track the man down for an interview regarding the latest goings-on in the Soul Coughing world. As I hear it from his publicist, he's off gallivanting around Europe. Soul Coughing is huge in France. All good rockstars are huge in France.

So with Mister Doughty rocking the Frenchies, I was left here alone to name his font. In honor of the great tradition of naming fonts after cities (i.e. Monaco, Geneva, Chicago, Shakopee, etc.) and also inspired by Doughty's ever-present geographical references in Soul Coughing songs, I've decided to call this font Wichita.

Wichita was drawn by M. Doughty. It was converted to font format by me, using my patented Alphabetician's Soopersecret Fontmaking Technique. In addition to your standard ABC's and numbers, this font also contains a few special dingbats which come in handy as shorthand when cranking out Soul Coughing set lists.

Special characters in this font go like this:
(option-m = "Mister Bitterness")
(option-s = "Soft Serve")
(option-b = "Bus")
(option-w = "White Girl")
(option-c = "Chicago")

Enjoy this font and use it often.