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- ComicsCarToon v.1
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- Shareware, $14
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- Remit To:
- Pat Snyder
- 1797 Ross Inlet Road
- Coos Bay, OR 97420
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- A Type 1 font for cartoonists. After studying many different styles of
- lettering used in the comics, I saw there was enough of a Òcommon threadÓ
- to have the keyboard (with a few adjustments) replace the bulk of the
- lettering done by pen & ink.
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- The ÒthreadÓ consists of two basic concepts. First, cartoonists tend to use
- all caps (avoiding ascenders & descenders for design purposes). Secondly,
- they use a set of letters that represent dialogue (straight pen & ink
- lettering) and another representing expression (POW, BANG, Z-Z-Z-Z, WHAM,
- etc.).
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- ComicsCarToon is, as you will find, three all caps fonts in one (Dialogue &
- two sets of Expression on one keyboard). I felt two sets of expression
- styles were needed for variety Ñ by using one or the other or intermingled.
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- Use for cartooning, eye-catching notices, ad display or to convey
- spontaneous, impulsive expression. Use it for copy needing to convey
- messages of the cartoonist. Instead of reaching for the pen and india ink
- to carefully print dialogue inside balloons, you now reach for the
- keyboard, click away, and then surround with a balloon.
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- Screen fonts: 14, 24. Works well with ATM. Move printer file into the
- system folder, and install screen font via SuitCase or DA Mover etc. If
- your software does not use AFM files, that file may be discarded.
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- Try and ENJOY!.......then if you use and enjoy, honor the shareware fee of
- $14. If you SHARE this font, please include all files and documents in one
- folder.
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- I currently teach drawing, painting, printmaking, year book DTP, and
- commercial art to future artists, possibly typographers (alias) high school
- students; and produce serious art for local, regional and national juried
- exhibitions and I golf.
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- Comments, suggestionsÉ both bricks and bouquets always welcome to
- Pat or Gail at the above address or:
- CompuServe: 76307,2431.
- America Online: Rps82
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- History:
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- Since creating my first font SnyderSpeed Brush (11/91 v.1 upper case only),
- the encouragement of shareware fees and/or input from users, allowed me to
- update SnyderSpeed by adding lower case (1/92), plus create OregonWet (on
- AOL's Nov. 91 top download's list), OregonDry, MarkerFeltThin 2/92,
- MarkerFeltWide 4/92 (used by Aldus Magazine's "New Comics" article,
- pgs.18-20 July/Aug '92 issue) StarsAndStripes 7/92, ComicsCartoon 9/92.
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- Note: 9/26/92 Major updates to MarkerFeltThin (v2), MarkerFeltWide (v2) and
- SnyderSpeed Brush (v3) were completed 8/92, with 40 new characters
- and/symbols added to each including em and en dashes, bullet, #, cents
- sign, ellipses, and © ª ¨. They haven't yet been released via modem or
- catalog/disk services, as I'm in the process of first mailing registered
- users their free updates -- especially users who have registered two or
- more of my fonts. (It DOES pay to support shareware!) This will take me
- another month or two to complete. Then, I'll release the updated versions.
- Fonts available both in Type 1 and True Type Formats on AOL and Type 1 on
- CompuServe.
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- Thanks ahead of time for supporting shareware.
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