Borzoi

2 September 1991-original release
Borzoi Reader is one of a series of complimentary ProtoType from 
phi*JaMaCon associates. In creating commercial fonts, there are many 
prototypes made, some of which are useful in their own right. Each ProtoType
release as of 21 April 1991 contains Type 1 hinted (usually) laser fonts 
along with the TrueType� equivalents.

To use any ProtoType Type 1 font, copy the laser font to your System Folder, 
and install the screen fonts either in your System file with Font/DA Mover 
3.8 or higher, or use MasterJuggler or Suitcase to install them. To install 
any ProtoType TrueType font, copy the suitcase with extension (TT) to your 
system file with FONT/DA Mover 4.1 or above, or use Suitcase� version 1.2.11 
or above. 

Some notes on TrueType. Older Apple LaserWriters don't have enough memory to 
use the TrueType scaler. The Apple print driver will then create a Type1 
unhinted Postscript font and download that to the printer. For some 
ProtoType, nonhinting gives very uneven stems; in that case use the 
Postscript fonts. (Bummer, I have an old Laserwriter myself).

Borzoi is a text font with only three faces, Plain, Italic and Bold. Just 
like Century Old Style from Adobe. The plain was inspired by Sumner 
Stone's Stone Informal, but is sans serif. The Italic is basically obliqued 
upper case, while the lower case has been modeled after Chancery cursive 
styles. The Bold is simply a Bolded plain. I have been reading Walter 
Tracy's book on type design, and have been impressed how a true or quasi 
true Italic gives a good contrast in print. If you choose Bold-Italic you 
will just get the Italic version. The name comes from my college days in 
which the English class had the �Borzoi Reader.� I always wondered what a 
Borzoi was, just like I still wonder what a Georgetown Hoya is. 

Borzoi was created in Fontstudio 2.0 from outlines first created in 
Fontographer 2.x and 3.x. At this point in time, 2 Sept 91, Fontstudio 
feels to me to have a somewhat better overall program with outstanding 
documentation, but it is quite slow compared to Fontographer. And the 
creation of the font families was done with StyleMerger, another Altsys 
utility. All this to say that the serious font creator does need both, as 
many others have pointed out.

Credits go to Altsys and Earl Allen for their outstanding support of 
Fontographer, Metamorphosis etc, to Letraset for Fontstudio 2.0, and of 
course to Connie, who puts up with all this nonsense.

Font Formats: -  Adobe (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
              -  DMF (+ bitmap)
              -  Bitmap (Black&White)
              -  IntelliFont

Font ID:      19735/19736/19737/19738

Directory:    Sans Serif/Borzoi

If you like the font, please feel free to use and distribute them. 
You are not allowed to modify them in any way; for example, you are not 
allowed to use Metamorphosis or Font Monger to create editable files. 
Furthermore, phi*JaMaCon associates retains all current and future commercial 
rights and other rights for all distributed ProtoType.

Phil Noguchi
phi*JaMaCon associates
5110 Viking Road
Bethesda, MD  20814-5711
USA

This is how it looks like: 

   Black&White Medium
   Black&White Bold
   Black&White BoldItalic
   Black&White Italic