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- Borzoi
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- <H2>Borzoi</H2>
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- 2 September 1991-original release
- Borzoi Reader is one of a series of complimentary ProtoType from
- phi*JaMaCon associates. In creating commercial fonts, there are many
- prototypes made, some of which are useful in their own right. Each ProtoType
- release as of 21 April 1991 contains Type 1 hinted (usually) laser fonts
- along with the TrueTypeª equivalents.
- <P>
- To use any ProtoType Type 1 font, copy the laser font to your System Folder,
- and install the screen fonts either in your System file with Font/DA Mover
- 3.8 or higher, or use MasterJuggler or Suitcase to install them. To install
- any ProtoType TrueType font, copy the suitcase with extension (TT) to your
- system file with FONT/DA Mover 4.1 or above, or use Suitcaseª version 1.2.11
- or above.
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- Some notes on TrueType. Older Apple LaserWriters don't have enough memory to
- use the TrueType scaler. The Apple print driver will then create a Type1
- unhinted Postscript font and download that to the printer. For some
- ProtoType, nonhinting gives very uneven stems; in that case use the
- Postscript fonts. (Bummer, I have an old Laserwriter myself).
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- Borzoi is a text font with only three faces, Plain, Italic and Bold. Just
- like Century Old Style from Adobe. The plain was inspired by Sumner
- Stone's Stone Informal, but is sans serif. The italic is basically obliqued
- upper case, while the lower case has been modeled after Chancery cursive
- styles. The Bold is simply a bolded plain. I have been reading Walter
- Tracy's book on type design, and have been impressed how a true or quasi
- true italic gives a good contrast in print. If you choose Bold-Italic you
- will just get the Italic version. The name comes from my college days in
- which the English class had the ÒBorzoi Reader.Ó I always wondered what a
- Borzoi was, just like I still wonder what a Georgetown Hoya is.
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- Borzoi was created in Fontstudio 2.0 from outlines first created in
- Fontographer 2.x and 3.x. At this point in time, 2 Sept 91, Fontstudio
- feels to me to have a somewhat better overall program with outstanding
- documentation, but it is quite slow compared to Fontographer. And the
- creation of the font families was done with StyleMerger, another Altsys
- utility. All this to say that the serious font creator does need both, as
- many others have pointed out.
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- Credits go to Altsys and Earl Allen for their outstanding support of
- Fontographer, Metamorphosis etc, to Letraset for Fontstudio 2.0, and of
- course to Connie, who puts up with all this nonsense.
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- Font Formats:
- <UL>
- <LI> <a href="ADOBE.html">Adobe</a> (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
- <LI> <a href="DMF.html">DMF</a> (+ bitmap)
- <LI> <a href="INTELLIFONT.html">IntelliFont</a>
- <LI> <a href="TRUETYPE.html">Truetype</a>
- </UL>
- Font ID: 19735/19736/19737/19738
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- Directory: SansSerif/Borzoi
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- If you like the font, please feel free to use and distribute them.
- You are not allowed to modify them in any way; for example, you are not
- allowed to use Metamorphosis or Font Monger to create editable files.
- Furthermore, phi*JaMaCon associates retains all current and future commercial
- rights and other rights for all distributed ProtoType.
- <PRE>
- Phil Noguchi
- phi*JaMaCon associates
- 5110 Viking Road
- Bethesda, MD 20814-5711
- USA
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