Apoptygma Berzerk – “Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next to Me)” single covers
![Tatra, 2000 [More info on Discogs]](https://original.fontsinuse.com/fontsinuse.com/use-images/N275/275842/275842.jpeg)
Tatra, 2000 [More info on Discogs]
Apoptygma Berzerk released their single “Kathy’s Song (Come Lie Next To Me)” 25 years ago, and recently have published a remixed 25th anniversary edition.
A CD-single remix release in the year 2000 (soon after the original, presumably) uses an image of a young woman (Kathy?) in PETSCII art on a Commodore 64 and uses the Commodore 64 ROM font for the track title. This year’s release features the same young woman in bitmap art on a Classic-era Mac, and uses the Mac’s menu font Chicago for the band name and track title; Chicago appearing in its bitmap strike. Chicago also appears in the Mac Paint menu bar on the screen of the Mac. The background of this image is made of a repeating circle motif, and this motif is one of the 8×8 desktop backgrounds that are selectable from the control panel of the original Mac. Susan Kare designed Chicago, the original Mac control panel, and quite possibly the desktop backgrounds (I couldn’t find a definitive note).
The Commodore 64 ROM font, like most ROM fonts from the 8-bit microcomputer era, doesn’t seem to have a name. Given the relative simplicity of reconstructing 8-bit fonts from the ROM, reconstructions have probably been done many times over.
Pitch Black Drive Productions, 2025
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Discogs credits the cover to Union Design, with EGZ for the design of “C-64 pixels & palette” and Hal Jameson for the “Stockmarket font”. Hal Jameson is an alias of Halvor Bodin, who used to work at Union Design at the time.
On his portfolio website, Bodin mentions that a first version of the Stockmarket font was used for Apoptygma Berzerk’s 2000 album Welcome to Earth. The band name on the single features a slightly different version, with a longer ear on g and less symmetrical diagonals on k.
Image: Halvor Bodin
I’ve added Stockmarket to the list of typefaces.
The joystick (plugged into the Commodore 64 in the first picture) is a Competition Pro from Kempston Micro Electronics, both icons of the 1980s.