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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
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.