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HKFonts Volume 7
© 1994, 1995 Heikki Kantola
Dedicated to the memory of Sami Oinonen
Introduction
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Well, this font collection took a while to get released even as I've
released few "beta" versions of it to limited number of persons and most
of these fonts were already made quite some time ago (read: spring 94).
And I've to still repeat the following mantra: "Yes, these are still
bitmap fonts as I haven't yet found the benefactor (yes, it can be YOU
right there looking at the monitor! :)) to buy me TypeSmith (or atleast
donate sum of money large enough to afford vector font editor). Anyway
these babes are are still made with ye olde FED from Extras1.3 disk as I
haven't even found better bitmap font editor (If somebody could turn FED
into modern form with standard file(/font) requester I would appericiate
that a lot). And no, don't mention WBFED to me, I hate to change pen
colour to erase pixels and to hunt down disappeared windows."
Contents
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This archive includes following fonts:
Bah! (13pt proportinal)
· Thin, semi-italic, futuristic font. Do I have to tell more? :)
Digital Quill (9x6, 11x6)
· Timmer did something called "Quill" (even as I've a font with same
name ;)) for his Digital Quill font editor and I did some enchange-
ments and this is the result...
Judge (16pt proportional)
· I got the inspiration for this one from title font used in Judge
Dredd and Judge Anderson comics.
Lava (15x8)
· KicStart asked for something like this (thin, rather big,
fixed-width serif) on IRC once upon at time.
Quartz (11x6)
· Thin, non-proportional font with no big thrills.
Shark, 8 and 11 point, proportional
· Yep, third time when I release the 11pt one, but this time I've
changed the xsize from 8 to 10, which seemed to fix little font-
sensitivity problem in X-Comm.
Simplicus Extremus (8x8)
· Thin, "normal" font suitable as Topaz-replacement, take two (#1 was
Zen from HK Fonts vol.6).
StarAge (13x8)
· YAFFFBH (Yet another futuristic, fixed-width font by Hezu).
Installation
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I'm sorry that I haven't provided you with nice Installer-script, but I
suppose everybody knows how to copy couple files from place A to place B.
In case of these fonts, place A is the place, where you unpacked this
archive and place B is your FONTS: dir.
Legal mumbo jumbo
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These fonts are strictly GIFTWARE! This means you may freely distribute
them via Internet/Usenet, software libraries such as Fred Fish's, BBSs and
other similar ways where nothing or only substancial fee for media,
copying and/or p&p is charged. They may not be included in any magazine
cover disk or freeware/PD/shareware/commercial product without author's
permission (If you're going to gain profit by using these fonts, I want my
share!). Then if you decide to use these fonts regularly, you must send a
gift (money, delicacy, programs (I would like to see some shareware
authors to accept this as a fee ;)), A4000Ts...) to the author.
Author
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Is Heikki Kantola, Amiga advocate, computational linguistics student at
the University of Helsinki, author of HK Fonts vol.1-7, PC loather, idler
extraordinaire, IRC addict (Hezu|N`Kognito@#Amiga), Mac basher, Unix/X
fan and what else?
You can contact me preferably via E-Mail: Heikki.Kantola@Helsinki.FI
Or then if you've no access to 'Net (poor you! :-P) or you're sending
me gift (if you like & use my font, I strongly encourage you!), you can
send good old snail mail to:
Heikki Kantola
(during University terms:) (holidays:)
Sakarinkatu 3 A 17 Lauttakatu 15
FIN-00500 Helsinki FIN-45700 Kuusankoski
Finland
And if you've access to IRC, you might spot among the crowd of #Amiga
(and actually couple other channels too, but I better not name them as
those can't be joined by everybody ;)) person nicknamed Hezu (my IrcII
ego) or N`Kognito (when using the absolutely fab irc client for Amiga,
Grapevine by Brian "Redwine" Cervany), which happens to be me. ;)
I wish welcome all comments, praises, critics, gifts, offers to make new
fonts etc...
Greetings, thanks and other misc stuff
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First my warm hellos to my very good friend of mine and the universum's
first person to donate me a gift (= 1l of orange juice) for my hard
work (and partly because he often drinks major part of my juice reserves
when he visits my place ;)), NCO trainee (or whatever the rank is
nowadays) Viljo Heikki Viljami Viitanen (also known as 3V) at the Carelian
Artillery Regiment, Vekaranjärvi garrison, Valkeala, Finland (finger
vviitane@kruuna.helsinki.fi to see how many days he has left of his
military service).
I want to send my greetings to all nice people at IRC (sorry, no name
list as I think if I would write one, I would surely forget somebody ;)).
Next, I want to curse bit evebody else but 3V, for not giving/sending me
any gifs so far (ok, ok, I haven't sent anything to most of those who ask
for something for their share/gift/cardware products either, but...=;*> ).
You likely wonder who is that Sami Oinonen to whose memory this font
archive has been dedicated, so here's the answer: Sami Kalevi Oinonen was
class mate of my little brother and very good friend of mine, who sadly
died on the lethal injuries from a car accident. May his soul rest in
peace.
And all the spelling and grammatical errors and like are all mine!!! :-P
English isn't my native language even as I've used it a lot in electronic
communications...
Last words
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Commodore is DEAD, but Amiga still lives!!!