Six Finger Satellite are two-faced con artists. Infiltrating the Sub Pop clubhouse seven years ago with a fake demo of grunge rock, they revealed their true electro-Krautrock identities only after securing a contract. Off-stage they're nice, well-mannered boys — you probably wouldn't be embarrassed to introduce them to your mother. But, God forbids you to ever take her to one of their rock shows.

Armed with artillery such as the Moog Rogue, Moog Liberation, Emu Drumulator, and Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, they become robotic, alien, possessed, treating their instruments like kitchen blenders. Six Finger Satellite wield power-charged paranormal sonics and spew a hedonistic pageant of abandoned humility. They are like no other band on Earth — well, except maybe Devo or Kraftwerk or Atari Teenage Riot.

Viewing the world through ruby-colored glasses, bassist James Apt has a particularly warped vision. And his method for making a Chank Rockstar Font exemplifies his skewed thought patterns: More in the manner of criminals than in the tradition of rockstars, James whipped out a pair of scissors instead of the typical Sharpie and took to cutting chunky block letters out of Chinese Hell Bank Notes.

Graphically based on evil American currency with Confucius as the Presidential face, this lucky money is burned so that your dead ancestors who might have ended up in Hell can have a few bucks to spend in the afterlife. A source in San Francisco says if you take a trip to Chinatown with 40 cents in your pocket, you can score a pack of 100 Hell Notes in any denomination. Depending on how much fun you want your relatives to have in Hell, you can find them in amounts ranging from ten to one million. James used $5,000 bills.

Here is the raw version of the letters James sent me (WARNING: this is a big graphic). James only communicates in capital letters, and asks us not to hold it against him. We understand.

I took James's letters, scanned them in, and using the power of my magic wooden fontmaking box, turned them into a font. Unfortunately, because of the intricate details and line work on the Hell Notes, the font cannot carry the image of the Hell Bank Note in each letter, or else it would take FOREVER to use as a typeface, and FOREVER and EVER to print.

But if you want to use images for electronic execution, this gif might serve you well (WARNING: it's still a big graphic). You can download it and then chop the letters up yourself into many little gifs to use for your Web site... or something.

Recommended usage: This font works well to create ransom notes or secret admirer letters. Enjoy it and use it often.