Font tool:
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TrueType fonts:
FontPrinter 3.0
Category: Fonts/Font Tools
Author: Mark Anderson
Gill, Standard, Bodoni, Cottonwood.. you've seen their names on
your font menu. And, if you're like me, that menu has become pretty
long from years of collecting shareware type. But do you remember
what they look like? FontPrinter provides you with a visual reminder
by outputting a reference sheet of your typefaces.
Much like Apple's free LaserWriter Utility, FontPrinter prints
the typeface's name in a default font next to some sample text
in the face itself. (The default text is even the same for both
utilities: "The quick brown fox..") But unlike Apple's entry,
FontPrinter outputs the typefaces installed in your computer's
system rather than those in your printer's memory -- for most
people, a more useful reference. FontPrinter is more flexible
in other ways as well: offering a choice of one- or two-column
output and allowing you to change the sample text to whatever
you want. (I always preferred the pangrammatic"Pack my box with
five dozen liquor jugs.") The output could be more attractively
formatted, but is nonetheless worthy of being hung on the wall
above your printer. A good READ ME file is included.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: TYPE PRINTER SPEC SHEET OUTPUT catalog postscript TRUETYPE
Requires: printer
Price: Shareware $5
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Coureen (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Peter Van Dyke
In the shareware font world, a proliferation of handwriting fonts
crowds online services. It's easy to see why: any scribbler with
Fontographer and a scanner can create them. Most are, needless
to say, trash: practically unreadable even at large sizes, they
completely fall apart when used as body text.
Coureen is distinctly different from these assays, and much better.
Firstly, it works well even at 12 points: completely legible,
interesting and even. But besides legibility, it's has its own
character: the author describes it as "Kind of a wild, loose,
freehand-with-a-quill-pen type font." Seemingly based on Courier,
it's at once informal and controlled, fun and thoughtful.
Unfortunately, there seems to be very little kerning, and the
character set only includes very rudimentary punctuation (besides
both upper and lower cases). Still, that's enough for your basic
needs, and even a headline in Coureen will breathe new life into
old layouts.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: courier serif display body quick handwriting hand letter informal
freehand
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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FineLine Type 1 3.1
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Eclipse Publishing, Limited
FineLine is a display face which features -- would you believe?
-- extremely fine lines. The sans serif letterforms are based
mostly on circles and simple angles, and descenders and ascenders
lack swashes. Upper- and lowercase forms are given, along with
a few punctuation marks. Due to this typeface's extremely light
weight, dropouts will occur at sizes below about 18 points (at
600dpi). Screen bitmaps for 24, 60 and 96 points are included,
along with Adobe font metrics.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Keywords: FONT TYPEFACE THIN TYPE 1 POSTSCRIPT AFM
Requires: best with PostScript printer
Price: Shareware $You decide
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Garish Monde Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Bernard Haber
Hey, college kids: what happens when you deconstruct great works
of art? You get a mess. And what happens when you deconstruct
Garamond, one of the most popular classic typefaces in the world?
That's right, same thing!
Garish Monde is a strangely fractured version of Garamond, including
upper and lower cases, punctuation, and ligatures. The author
obviously took an existing digitized Garamond and made semi-random
vertical cuts in the letterforms, and then re-arranged the pieces.
As he writes in the Read Me file: "The origins of this font are
a sample sheet of an American Type Founders Garamond font printed
in 1934, an unusually tart bottle of French table wine, and a
relaxing evening discussing literary deconstructionist theory
with some very confused friends of mine from the University."
Confused, indeed. Not for the weak of eyesight. This is the PostScript
version: the TrueType version is also available from ZiffNet/Mac,
in the "TrueType Fonts" library.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Keywords: type face display upper lower case punctuation broken garamond
split fracture deconstructionist
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $10
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GhostBayou Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
This font comes, appropriately enough, from Louisiana The land
of bayous and swamp creatures -- and setting for Anne Rice's Gothic
series of "Vampire" books -- would make a perfect backdrop for
"GhostBayou", a display face similar to "PostCrypt". Available
in uppercase with a few punctuation marks only, the letters seem
to drip with primeval ooze.
The author also suggests a use: he writes, "It would also be good
to rewrite a classic MAD story from the '50s called "The Heap".
A mad scientist is throwing his garbage out his window on the
swamp and it all comes together to make a creature called the
'Heap.'"
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: SPOOKY HALLOWEEN FONT BAYOU GHOST type face dripping oozing
display
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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GlassTubesFour Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: LetterBank
One mark of a font's success is whether or not it's used in day-to-day
situations, and you can be sure that the fonts from LetterBank
have already been put to the test. LetterBank is a company in
California which has developed a series of fonts for use in their
sign and banner printing business. GlassTubesFour is one of these,
a poster-like face which resembles neon tubes which have been
curved in on themselves to form a thick, bold letterform. The
set includes large and small caps, numerals and some punctuation.
Paying the registration fee gets you $20 off of a sign or banner
order from LetterBank. This is the PostScript version; the TrueType
version can be found in ZiffNet/Mac's "TrueType Fonts" library.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: GLASS TUBE TUBES NEON small CAPS uppercase upper light bulbs
glow display
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $20
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GoblinMoon Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
That Marty Bee sure does have a thing for fonts that ooze: his
"GhostBayou" (also available in this library), a thinner version
of PostCrypt, practically drips off the page as it rises out of
the mist and fog to wrap its clammy hands about your throat, its
ears being too clogged with sludge to hear your pitiful cries
for help, its eyes too encrusted to see your terrified face as
you..
*Ahem*. Anyway, GoblinMoon is sort of like that, too, but a little
more nauseated. This one is more wispy, like a puff of smoke:
one good wind could blow it away. Perhaps the two fonts should
be coupled: GhostBayou as the corpus, GoblinMoon as the soul..
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: SPOOKY HALLOWEEN FONT goblin moon type face dripping oozing
display
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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Halloweeny Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
Marty Bee has come through for us again, just in time for Halloween!
He's released a font of 13 Halloween icons to accompany the many
holiday-themed typefaces available in this library (GoblinMoon,
GhostBayou, ScaredyCat, SpookWind, SidTheSpider and others) --
and what icons they are! Residing in the capital letters A-M,
they are, respectively: a skull, a haunted-looking house, a jack-o-lantern,
a "witch's" hat, a bone, a spiderweb, a spider, a spook, a tombstone,
a coffin, and a black cat's face. The coffin is perhaps the wittiest
-- if you look closely, you'll see fingers reaching around the
lid: from the inside, as the occupant struggles to get out.
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: halloweeny font postscript atm halloween SPOOKY ICONS GRAPHICS
PICTURE DINGBAT
Requires: PostScript printer or ATM
Price: Shareware $5
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LauraMcCrary Font 1.1 (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Jim Pearson
LauraMcCrary is a typeface with a deco appearance, with (mostly)
even strokes and an appearance which is at once both curved and
angular. (In the author's words, it's "sort of a 'Helvetica went
to Miami' style.) It's an amazingly complete font, including not
only a full standard character set (upper and lower cases and
punctuation) but also an enormous range of characters with diacritical
marks, such as umlauts, accents graves and accents acutes. In
addition, he includes characters almost never seen, even in body
types, such as yen and florin signs, Greek and Latin letters,
and ligatures.
My only reservations with this typeface lie in the individual
characters: I personally find the double-line stroke he uses on
some characters to be distracting. But these are personal matters,
and it may be that you find his choices to be sublime: in any
case, you'll not find a more versatile character set anywhere,
even in the commercial world. And that's saying a lot.
This is the PostScript version: the TrueType version can be found
in the "TrueType Fonts" library.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: lauramccrary postscript ATM font typeface deco upper lower case
punctuation accent diacritic sans serif
Requires: PostScript printer or ATM
Price: Shareware $5
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LetterGothic-EGG 4.1a (TT & PS)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: EG? Idaho, Inc.
We know you're a Mac partisan, or you wouldn't be here. But don't
you sometimes hanker for the distinctive look and feel of documents
produced on an IBM clone and cheap printer? No? Well, neither
do I. But sometimes it's necessary for Mac users to produce output
that fits in with PC documents -- and that's where LetterGothic-EGG
comes in.
Similar to Adobe's Letter Gothic -- but not, as the author points
out in his meticulous documentation, the same -- LetterGothic-EGG
replicates a typeface common in the PC world. This package includes
both TrueType and Type 1 versions of the font, along with LOTS
of information about the uses of, need for, and history of the
font. Unlike most freeware fonts, this one includes an extensive
set of European characters along with the good ol' 26.
As a monospaced font, LetterGothic-EGG comes very close to its
stated goal of 12 cpi (Elite), with 66 lines per 11-inch page.
Just like a typewriter. This font is great for handling plain
text files that come from online.
Version 4.1a makes unspecified changes.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: lettergothic egg letter gothic selectric font typewriter adobe
postscript truetype typeface
Requires: System 7 or later, or PostScript printer or ATM
Price: Freeware
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Love Letter Typewriter (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Bernard Haber
I expected a font called "Love Letter" to be all curvy and ornamental:
what a surprise I got! This font is instead as rough as they come:
a font based on an old, decrepit typewriter's output. How to resolve
the discrepancy? The author explains:
"[These forms were] created from the pages of love letters written
from my grandfather to my grandmother in the late thirties and
early forties (she replied with a pen). It is old, inky, yet strong
and clear."
Indeed it is. But there are sweet cherries hidden in this bon
bon of a typeface: explore the extended character set (by holding
down the option key while you type) to find a dozen "love" dingbats:
hearts, romantic leaves, reproductions of Renaissance Cupids,
and so forth.
The TrueType version is also available, in the "Fonts/TrueType"
library of Software Central.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: broken pica serif monospaced rough display body antique old
age
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $10
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Marcie (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Edward Leach
Marcie is a handwritten font, apparently modeled after that of
a female friend of the author. Unlike most shareware handwriting
fonts, it avoids being too obnoxious; its Tekton-like inoffensiveness
makes it usable even for body text. (Needless to say, it works
well as a display face, although it would need to be carefully
kerned a bit tighter for best effect.) One caveat: the descenders
tend to dip a bit too low, and so extra leading will be needed.
The author is a bit more poetic than I am in describing his creation.
To wit:
"If this is the year of the woman, than 'Marcie' is the typeface
of the 90's. Contemporary, bold and intelligent -- yet undeniably
feminine -- 'Marcie' is ideal for personal invitations, letters,
messages, etc."
"Marcie" consists of all upper and lower case characters, and
includes numbers and punctuation marks. There are two versions:
plain and bold.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: marcie postscript ATM font typeface handwriting female cursive
printing Body display
Requires: PostScript printer or ATM
Price: Shareware $10
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Notepad Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Jonathan Stampf
Notepad is a casual "marker"-type handwritten font with a twist:
alternate versions of the lowercase letters are accessible by
holding down the "option" key, allowing the user to avoid that
pesky "computer-generated" feeling by varying the type within
a phrase. As a result, however, the eight-bit characters which
would normally be accessed through the "option" key (such as the
bullet and copyright symbol) are absent.
As far as handwriting fonts go, it's not bad, evidently the work
of someone used to writing in a regular fashion. It's still a
bit too wild for body text, mostly because the kerning is too
irregular to provide a consistent text "color". Still, it has
personality, and could work as a display face (especially if used
in all caps).
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: handwriting cursive face typeface novelty casual marker display
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $15
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Ovid (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Bernard Haber
Ovid is a classic-looking typeface, based on one created in 1934
by Robert Foster, who named it Pericles. It's similar to the lettering
chiseled on ancient edifices: strong, circular curves, square
letterforms, sharp corners and consistent angles.
The author reports that the "ATF Book of American Types" wrote
the following of this typeface in the year of its creation: "The
new classic type which combines the purity of the Greek with the
virility of the modern."
Only the uppercase letters and most punctuation is included, but
note the hidden "bonus" in one of the extended characters, as
well as the alternate "E" accessible by typing a lowercase "e".
Register it and you will get "a bonus font which complements Ovid
quite nicely, one that I only give to those who register Ovid."
If *that's* not a teaser, I don't know what is!
The TrueType version is also available in Software Central, in
the library "Fonts/TrueType Fonts".
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: classic uppercase upper Greek Roman author deco Pericles
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $10
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PostModernOblique (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
For some reason, this typeface makes me think of the Starship
Enterprise speeding through the galaxy at warp speed. Never mind
what would happen to the crew, the ship, and all matter on board
at this theoretical limit: what would happen to the familiar "Trek"
typeface?
I think it would turn out something like "PostModernOblique",
a somewhat familiar-looking futuristic face, but very very skinny
and leaning into the wind. As the author writes, "Think Streamline,
Bauhaus and toasters that look they could do 200 mph." Best used
in small doses: nausea-inducing as body text. Comes in upper case
only, but with quite a bit of punctuation.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: font face typeface uppercase fast speedy slant italic oblique
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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Printer's Ornaments One 1.1 (PostScript)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Michelle Dixon
Printer's Ornaments One is a "compilation" font of sorts, combining
floral decorations of many different styles to form a near-canonical
decorative set. All the popular classic ornaments are here: lunettes,
fleurons, and other dingbats found in older letterpress sets.
Excellent when used at large sizes, or as a layout's centerpiece,
they also have the clarity needed for use at smaller sizes, such
as to show the end of an article.
The TrueType version is also available in Software Central.
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Keywords: printers ornaments one postcript ATM font dingbats floral ornament
borders vines leaves pictures antique Lunettes fleurons heraldic
devices wreaths
Requires: PostScript printer or ATM
Price: Shareware $10
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PsychSmoke Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Walter Kafton-Minkel
PsychSmoke (Psychedelic Smoke) is, as the name implies, a typeface
hearkening back to the late '60s, when everything was, um, groovy.
It's a little similar to "BellBottoms", in that it features skinny
lines at the top of the letterforms, billowing out to a much wider
stroke at the bottom, giving the impression of looking upward
at a very tall letter.
There's a hand-drawn element to this font as well, reflected in
the swashes and stroke ends. Add to this a backward slant, and
you have a very distinctive font, indeed. The author reports that
he spent days working on all the kerning pairs so that, even though
this face wouldn't be suitable as a body text, it's a display
face that's as elegant as one. NOTE: The capital "Q" has an even/odd
fill error in it.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: PSYCH SMOKE DISPLAY SLANT oblique typeface display nostalgia
60s sixties Psychedelic Smoke
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Freeware
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Rousseau (TT & T1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Ragnarok
To the long list of calligraphic typefaces, add Rousseau, a fine
and legible face from the Scriptorium library. Like many such
faces, it has Gothic overtones, with exaggerated serifs, slightly
angled curves, and a dagger-like "f".
This face includes a complete upper and lower case set, along
with numerals and a period. It's a shame that such a well crafted
typeface doesn't include the additional punctuation and extended
characters it would need to be used as for body text: in fact,
it would merit a higher rating if it weren't for this lack of
basic punctuation. Still, it's so nicely kerned (for such a complex
face) and inoffensive that it's tempting to use it as such for
simple applications: and that's high praise indeed for a display
face.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: font typeface calligraphy display thin legible gothic scriptorium
dagger
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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ScaredyCat Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
This is another in a series of Halloween-themed fonts from Marty
Bee which are available in this library. The collection includes
GoblinMoon, GhostBayou, Halloweeny, SpookWind, SidTheSpider and
others. ScaredyCat is similar to SidTheSpider, although not quite
as radical: try to imagine that this font has just been frightened,
and the fur on its back is standing up. The result is a spiky,
skinny, nervous sort of typeface that complements the others in
the collection well. Uppercase only, with some punctuation.
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: SPOOKY HALLOWEEN FONT scaredy cat type face spiky spike scared
hair fur caps punctuation
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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Sharktooth Type 1 2.00
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Peter Bryant
Sharktooth is extremely heavy display face, similar to Monotype's
Braggadocio. Its deco-like design is derives from solid black
forms--mostly circles and triangles--into which lines have been
cut. Because of its blackness, this face would reproduce well
on a lower-resolution printer such as the AppleWriter II. A complete
set of characters is included, although the lower-case letters
are actually small caps. The package includes the Type 1 printer
font, screen bitmaps (10, 12, 14, 18, 20 and 24 points), and Adobe
font metrics.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: FONT TYPEFACE HEAVY TYPE 1 1 POSTSCRIPT
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $10
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SidTheSpider Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
This is another in a series of Halloween-themed fonts from Marty
Bee which are available in this library. The collection includes
GoblinMoon, GhostBayou, Halloweeny, SpookWind, ScaredyCat and
others. SidTheSpider looks at first like a more extreme version
of ScaredyCat, so spiky that it's almost illegible. Upon closer
inspection, you can see that the letterforms are cleverly made
up of spindly "legs", like a spider doing calisthenics. And the
letters *are* legible in the end -- you just might not want to
get too near them. Uppercase only, with some punctuation.
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: SPOOKY HALLOWEEN FONT sid the spider type face spiky spike legs
skinny uppercase caps punctuation
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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SpookWind Font (Type 1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Marty Bee
This is another in a series of Halloween-themed fonts from Marty
Bee which are available in this library. The collection includes
GoblinMoon, GhostBayou, Halloweeny, SidTheSpider, ScaredyCat and
others. SpookWind is in the same vein as GhostBayou and MoonGoblin:
an all-uppercase font that seems fluid. In this one, there seems
to be a wind coming from the right, pushing the letters apart
with its force. It's even less legible than the other two, though,
and it doesn't pack as much of a Halloweenesque punch. The author
seems especially enamored of it, though: as he writes, "this font
scared the peanuts right out of my M?'s!"
Be sure to search for Mr. Bee's other Halloween-themed fonts:
simply find for the keyword "Halloween". And remember to send
in your shareware fee to: Marty Bee, 3347 Pete Seay Road, Sulphur,
LA 70663.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Keywords: SPOOKY HALLOWEEN FONT spook wind type face caps display punctuation
blow oblique
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $5
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Terpsichore (TT & T1)
Category: Fonts/PostScript Fonts
Author: Scriptorium Font Library
Terpsichore, for those of you allergic to pretensions, is the
Latin word for dancer; and dance this font does, albeit in a loping,
overly ornamental way. It's a calligraphic, loopy sort of thing,
all frills and daintiness, like a lace doily: and like a lace
doily, it's attractive but mostly free of function.
Both upper and lower case characters are included, but no punctuation
or extended characters. For that reason, it would be impossible
to use this face as a body text. Not that you'd want to: its complexity
makes it nearly illegible for more than a few letters at a time.
But I could see it having its uses, particularly as an initial
drop cap or shadowed out behind an elegantly designed presentation
piece: in such a context, terpsichore soars.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Keywords: typeface type face calligraphy loops display upper lower ornate
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware: $5
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Beckett Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Audio Electric Systems
Lovers of gothic faces will appreciate Beckett, a moderately heavy
TrueType face which -- unlike most such faces -- includes both
upper and lower cases, as well as a good punctuation set. It's
based on printing styles of old-fashioned German books, yet is
simplified enough to be readable by modern literati. What makes
this face especially unusual is that the lower-case set is compressed,
making it easier to copyfit than most calligraphic typefaces.
Although this is a complete character set, I would still hesitate
to use it for body text, except in a limited fashion: its floridity
is a bit confusing, and the kerning isn't perfect. Still, it's
perfectly workable for short passages, and retains its legibility
down to nine points -- impressive in a face so ornate.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: Beckett TT font gothic Germanic calligraphy heavy
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $4
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Bujew Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Mike Zillion
Of all the fonts available as shareware, handwritten faces are
perhaps the most prevalent. There are good reasons for this: anyone
with a scanner and a copy of Fontographer can turn out a legible
font within a few hours, including punctuation and extended characters.
But making a credible typeface is another matter: often, line
thickness varies, letter sizes collide, and kerning is ignored.
But Bujew succeeds unusually well: a rough, almost scrawled face
which is nonetheless perfectly clear.
Surprisingly, it works better as a body text than as a display
face. This is unusual for handwritten fonts, a notable exception
being the wildly popular Tekton. Yet there the similarity with
the commercial face ends: whereas Tekton is a practiced, draftsperson-derived
face, Bujew is the work of someone writing quickly -- but thoughtfully.
Upper and lower cases are included, as well as rudimentary punctuation.
Note that the lower case is really small caps.
Be sure to read the story of Bujew which comes with this font:
it adds a special relevance to its appearance, and may suggest
uses to you through its evocative retelling.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: typeface type face small caps body handwriting marker rough
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware: $5 "Mitzvah-Ware"
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Driveby Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Adam Wunn
Driveby is the swiss cheese of fonts: a typeface which, as the
name implies and as the author writes, "has been in one gunfight
too many." A bold Helvetica has been used as the base into which
Mr. Wunn has irregularly punched small holes, about a dozen per
character. Note that only the uppercase letters and most punctuation
is present: the lowercase keys are mapped to output uppercase
letters. Certainly not for use as a body text -- it's just too,
too weird -- but a distinctive display font.
This is one of many phunky phresh phonts by Adam Wunn, all of
which are eMailWare (or, as he says, "If you cannot e-mail or
dont even know or care what electronic mail is, then just smile."
The font carries an additional responsibility with it: again,
the author's words. "I absolutely forbid this font, or any others
I have created, to be used to display propaganda or racial slurs.
You may not use this font to display hateful or derogatory messages.
There is enough hate in this world, and I will not allow my font
to be used to communicate such awful sentiments." Well put.NOTE:
The "Read Me" document was saved incorrectly, and might not open
when you double-click on it. Open it in a program which can read
non-standard file formats (such as Microsoft Word) or use File
Buddy or ResEdit to change the filetype to "TEXT".
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: gun shot gunshot swiss cheese holes Helvetica typeface display
uppercase
Requires: System 7 or later or TrueType extension
Price: eMailWare
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Graveyard Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Audio Electric Systems
It's one thing to see your name in lights.. but have you ever
thought about seeing your name on tombstones? If you have.. you're
sick! And well served by Graveyard Font, another ghoulish design
by Audio Electric Systems.
Graveyard frames each letter in a shadowed, tablet-shaped grave
marker. Or at least I assume it's supposed to be a grave marker:
actually, it looks a little like a London policeman's hat. The
typeface has other weaknesses, too: although upper and lower case
letters are included, the lowercase ones simply don't work, and
some of the uppercase ones are filled in. Looks best at 48 points
and larger.
Rating: 2 (out of 5)
Keywords: GRAVEYARD TrueType font DISPLAY UPPERCASE TOMBSTONE DEATH halloween
Requires: Mac Plus or better
Price: Shareware $4
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No Parking Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Adam Wunn
This is a typeface, like most of the others by this author, based
on a simple sans serif face -- but with a twist. In this case
,that twist is that each of the letterforms has fine diagonal
stripes going through it. To me, it looks like they're caught
in a storm, with the wind blowing and the rain beating down in
front of the letters. But the author's vision of what this font
is is quite different from mine, and matches its name much better.
As he writes, "This striped font received its name because it
reminded me of those annoying "No Parking stripes at the supermarket
that are placed in the strangest places."
Note that only the uppercase letters and most punctuation is present:
the lowercase keys are mapped to output uppercase letters.
This is one of many phunky phresh phonts by Adam Wunn, all of
which are eMailWare (or, as he says, "If you cannot e-mail or
dont even know or care what electronic mail is, then just smile."
The font carries an additional responsibility with it: again,
the author's words. "I absolutely forbid this font, or any others
I have created, to be used to display propaganda or racial slurs.
You may not use this font to display hateful or derogatory messages.
There is enough hate in this world, and I will not allow my font
to be used to communicate such awful sentiments." Well put.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: Helvetica typeface display uppercase strip stripes parking lot
slash rain wind
Requires: System 7 or later or TrueType extension
Price: eMailWare
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ReliefDeco TrueType
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: David Rakowski
No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you: that's ReliefDeco
you're looking at! The designer started with a semi-heavy slab-serif
face, duplicated it in white, and moved it slightly off center.
The result is a puzzling TrueType display face which demonstrates
the concept of visual inference: that is, the viewer invents parts
of the characters that aren't drawn. Included is an all-uppercase
set, no punctuation. There's also a surprise in one of the alternate
characters--one last trick from a tricky typeface. 18-point screen
bitmap also included.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: FONT TYPEFACE TRUETYPE
Requires: TrueType extension (for System 6), or System 7 or greater
Price: Shareware $2.99
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Virtual Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Adam Wunn
Adam Wunn is at it again, creating custom versions of sans serif
faces for specialized uses. But unlike his fonts Driveby, Winwood
and No Parking (all available in this library), this one doesn't
rely on "deteriorating" an existing font. Instead, Virtual is
a version of Machine which has a shadow applied to it, resulting
in a bold look. Note that one character is faulty: the left square
bracket is misshapen. However, the square brackets are the same
forms as the parentheses, so they can be used in place of the
square brackets.
Note that only the uppercase letters and most punctuation is present:
however, the lowercase keys output small caps.
This is one of many phunky phresh phonts by Adam Wunn, all of
which are eMailWare (or, as he says, "If you cannot e-mail or
dont even know or care what electronic mail is, then just smile."
The font carries an additional responsibility with it: again,
the author's words. "I absolutely forbid this font, or any others
I have created, to be used to display propaganda or racial slurs.
You may not use this font to display hateful or derogatory messages.
There is enough hate in this world, and I will not allow my font
to be used to communicate such awful sentiments." Well put.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: true type typeface display uppercase punctuation small caps
bold shadow machine
Requires: System 7 or later or TrueType extension
Price: eMailWare
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Winwood Font (TrueType)
Category: Fonts/TrueType Fonts
Author: Adam Wunn
Winwood is, like the author's font "Driveby" (also available in
this library) a sort of Swiss cheese of fonts: a typeface which
is full of irregular holes. A bold Helvetica has been used as
the base into which Mr. Wunn seems to have scratched out spaces,
creating a stucco-like texture. According to the author, the lettering
on a poster from musician Steve Winwood's concert tour "Roll With
It" was the inspiration. As he writes: "Steve is my second favorite
musician and subsequently, I have that poster hanging no more
than a foot away from my Mac. I have always wanted to create that
crumbly, worn-out stone font, but I knew it was to complex. Well,
here it is."
Note that only the uppercase letters and most punctuation is present:
the lowercase keys are mapped to output uppercase letters.
This is one of many phunky phresh phonts by Adam Wunn, all of
which are eMailWare (or, as he says, "If you cannot e-mail or
dont even know or care what electronic mail is, then just smile."
The font carries an additional responsibility with it: again,
the author's words. "I absolutely forbid this font, or any others
I have created, to be used to display propaganda or racial slurs.
You may not use this font to display hateful or derogatory messages.
There is enough hate in this world, and I will not allow my font
to be used to communicate such awful sentiments." Well put.
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Keywords: face typeface true type display capitals punctuation holes Steve
Requires: System 7 or later or TrueType extension
Price: eMailWare
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