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- 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
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- 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 ╥Old West╙ 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 ╥Type Drawer╙ 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
- ╥Sdrawkcab╙ 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.
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