Hate your job? Fire off a resignation letter in Jack the Ripper's handwriting. Feeling mischie- vous? Print your correspondence In Lee Harvey Oswald's scrawl.

Following in the keystrokes of other custom font makers, Stuart Shapiro, a producer of independent films, created Killer Fonts (www.killerfonts.com/) Teamed with fontographer Ted Ollier, Shapiro culled letters, manuscripts, and books for handwriting samples from vari- ous murderous sorts. The roster covers the Zodiac Killer, Butch Cassidy, Lizzie Borden, and Genghis Khan. "My Number One request is 0. J. Simpson," Shapiro says, "but we're not doing it."

Humans aren't the only killers inspiring Shapirols product line: 'We're thinking of making fonts out of the molecular structure of diseases.'