About the 31 fonts in this bonus folder: Promotional fonts: 6 Including Red Letter, SalloonExt, Serpent, Zarrow, Zirkle Bonus fonts: 25 Auldroon, Balboat, Eldroon, Handana, FansiPensle, LaserTrain, LineDrive, Sansville, sdrawkcab, SlimpicityCaps, UUeirdie, Waterworks, Zcript These fonts are included here because they are of limited use, or are of a slightly lesser quality, or they are promotional fonts, or simply because they were finished just in time to be included but not integrated with the rest of the fonts. Individual descriptions: Auldroon/Eldroon Auldroon and Eldroon are closely related typefaces with a vaguely medieval spirit. They are decorative and meant for display purposes, though I am not sure how many purposes are out there for them to fit. Auldroon is an example of a typeface I like, but which I am not sure is very useful. Balboat (Plain, Bold) Balboat is a plain calligraphic typefaces with very long ascenders and descenders. It is sans serif and has no slant in the letters. To be readable, one should use it at18 point or above. At 12 point the print is very small. It adds variety to the calligraphic offerings on the disk. FansiPensle (Plain, Bold) FansiPensleTwo (Plain, Bold) These are attempts to create interesting script typefaces. I was not completely happy with my first variant, FansiPensle, so tried some different ideas and came up with FansiPensleTwo. I then decide quit on this attempt even though I had not gotten the effect I wanted. Though they may be useful for some purposes, these typefaces never got to where I wanted them to get. Handana (Plain, Bold) Handana is an informal calligraphic face with elements of script. It fits between several categories and fills a gap in the collection. It is more elegant than some of the hand-writing typefaces such as PlainPensle, but it is more spontaneous and natural than Hermainita or even Xaltid. LaserTrain (Plain, Bold) One of the first typefaces I designed was ChooChoo, in which letters rode on train cars. I do not know where the idea for this typeface came from. It was created as a type 3 typeface with Fontographer 2.4.1, and because I relied heavily on composite characters and strokes, it did not seem worth the while to convert it to Type 1 when Fontographer got the capability to produce Type 1 faces. LaserTrain is derived from ChooChoo. It takes the train element and expands on it. A user suggested that I add smoke to the typeface, and the bold version is the result. (A PostScript printer will work best with this typeface because I put some of the design in places TrueType (and Adobe's Type Manager) do not want things to be.) Laser Train resembles a toy train more than a real train. It is great if one needs pictures of toy trains. Otherwise I am not sure what one would use it for. LineDrive (Plain, Bold) This typeface is based on a typeface which I saw illustrated in a book about 19th century type design. I did not attempt to do an exact reproduction, but rather used the general design of letters. I added the bold version because it was easy to do. The original never caught on, so this version probably has limited usefulness. RedLetter This is a mostly useless alphabet that was a lot of fun doing. In late 1988 or early 1989 I noticed that the circular form of the sickle and the linear form of the hammer could be used to form all the letters of the alphabet. I released the result as a promotional typeface in an effort to sell other typefaces, first in Type 3 format as Stalingrad, and later in Type 1 format as RedLetter. If you collect public-domain and shareware typefaces, you probably have seen this typeface. SaloonExt Salloon has an ÒOld WestÓ look even though it was not modeled after any existing typeface. It is bold, and the upper case differs from the lower case in having extra bumps. Salloon was one of the best of my early typefaces. SalloonExt is an older version of Salloon and is horizontally stretched compared to Salloon. I have released a version of this as a promo- ware font. Both of these typefaces were illustrated in the ÒType DrawerÓ column of the March 1992 issue of Personal Publishing (now Business Publishing). For reasons I do not understand, credit for SaloonExt was given not to me but to one of those companies which makes money selling disks of public-domain and shareware software. Sansville (Plain, Bold) I derived Sansville from Swanville several years ago. It is a bold, sans serif face. It has problems and I do not think that trying to fix them is worth my effort. However, it may be of use to someone somewhere. Sdrawkcab This is a novelty font derived from TiredOfCourier. It allows one to create mirror writing, that is, writing which looks correct when viewed in a mirror. All the letters have been flipped. Though it is not something most people will ever use, if you do want it, here it is. To understand why it is named as it is, print out the name ÒSdrawkcabÓ using the typeface and hold it up to a mirror. SlimpicityCaps This typeface is a condensed, sans serifed typeface which includes only upper-case letters and numbers. The punctuation is incomplete. It is perhaps usable as display. I may eventually get around to filling this one in but not for this edition. Serpent Serpent is a novelty font which I drew in a couple of hours to release as a promotional font several years ago. It is unlikely to be of much use (though I suppose one could write hate letters in it). If you keep track of public-domain and shareware offerings, you may have seen it. UUeirdie (Plain, Bold) This typeface was derived from Asterx by expanding it and altering the serifs. I wanted to see what would happen if I made Asterx more text-like. I had no special use in mind for it, but it is interesting in its weirdness. WaterWorksCaps WaterWorks is a novelty font in which the letters are formed from pipes. It does not contain diacritical characters, not does it contain all the punctuation marks. This should be no problem because no one would ever want to use more than a few letters at a time. It was based on items I constructed in making mazes. Zarrow Zarrow is a novelty font made up of arrows and other items from archery. I have released versions of this as promotional fonts, so if you keep track of public-domain and shareware offerings, you may have seen it. Zcript (Plain, Bold) This typeface is closely related to PlainPensle-Italic in the shapes of the letters and overall design, but the shape of the writing pen is very different. ZirkleOne (Roman, Bold) Zirkle was the first typeface I designed. The design of the capital letters begins with a circle and cuts away parts and adds interior lines to form letters. It is interesting, but not very easy to read and probably not very useful. I have released versions of this as promotional fonts, so if you keep track of public-domain and shareware offerings, you may have seen it.