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>>> MAGNETIC INK <<<
Proudly Presents
M A G N E T O & T I T A N I U M
- Fonts of Your Dreams -
CONTENTS
Magneto12 39.1▀ (6.5.93) -- Fixed-width font designed for DBLPAL
Titanium12 39.1▀ (6.5.93) -- Proportional font designed for DBLPAL
ABSTRACT
I fairly recently upgraded from my good ol' A500 and bought myself an
A4000. :-) 'Twas very nice indeed to be able to use a 720x560 display
in "DBLPAL:High Res No Flicker" (the name is IMHO a misnomer -- it
DOES flicker - why can't I have 720x560 with MULTISCAN:Productivity?),
but the screen font looked AWFUL -- my previous 8x8 font became dis-
torted and was barely readable. :-( I have never fancied the Topaz/11
font and, besides, I wanted to use a proportional font for my screen
menus and icons -- so after a while I decided to make my own fonts.
Here they are: Magneto/12 and Titanium/12 -- especially designed for
use with screen modes like "BDLPAL:High Res No Flicker". The design
of the two fonts is identical except Magneto is fixed-with, Titanium
proportional.
The fonts were also designed for the Latin-1 2 charset (ISO-8859-1),
but I have included characters for the IBM-PC charset (CodePage 865)
in the range 0x01-0x1F and 0x80-0xA0 -- the latter are subject to
change and I might decide to release a separate fixed-width font that
handles the full CodePage 865 charset (including graphic characters)
for those of you out there who has the need for such a feature (this
is especially true for people on e.g. FidoNet). It depends, however,
on the amount of feed-back I get...
NOTES
Magneto & Titanium are released as public betas and should be treated
as such. Give them a try and tell me what you feel -- there are still
a lot of things to be changed, I know, but I NEED your *feed-back*,
please! You'll find my address at the bottom of this file.
ACKS & NACKS
:-) For ▀-testing, comments and suggestions sincere thanks are due to
Dennis Rasmussen (2:230/119.2@fidonet)
Adam Sj°gren (2:230/149@fidonet)
Brian Jacobsen (2:230/311.17@fidonet)
:-( For NOT supplying a font editor with AmigaOS 2 & 3 flames are due
to Commodore. The fonts included in this package were made using FED
from release 1.3 (oh, boy - I *love* that font requester!) -- argh!
COPYRIGHTS & DISTRIBUTION
The Magneto and Titanium fonts were designed from scratch by Klaus
Seistrup and are Copyright ⌐ 1993 Magnetic Ink. Both fonts are freely
distributable -- electronic distribution is especially encouraged --
as long as the distribution archive is left intact (please do NOT add,
NOR remove any, files!!!), holding the following files:
Fonts (dir)
Magneto (dir)
12
Titanium (dir)
12
Magneto.font
Titanium.font
Fonts.info
README.1ST
README.1ST.info
No monetary gains should be made from the distribution of these fonts,
except for REASONABLE media costs, and their inclusion with commercial
products is explicitly prohibited without PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT from
the author. Distribution via magazines (disk based or otherwise) is
also prohibited -- this especially goes to the Danish Amiga magazine
"Det Ny COMputer"! One single exception to this prohibition, however,
is Fred Fish who is explicitly granted rights to include these fonts
in his library, may he wish to do so. :-)
-*-
Klaus Seistrup ______ >>> Magnetic Ink <<<
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DK-2200 Copenhagen N \ / fidonet#2:230/119
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