MonotonyBook
About Monotony(R) Ä

TSMonotony(R), one of a series of complimentary 
ProtoType(R) from phi*JaMaCon associates Ä really, no 
charge. All rights retained by Phil Noguchi.

12 Sep 1990

Here's the font nobody's been waiting for, a monospaced 
font for the rest of us. There is nothing remarkable about 
this font; in fact, it's so boring I named it Monotony­(R) 
Ä zzz, oh, sorry! I dozed off. (Note that the ­ at the end 
of Monotony­(R) denotes the opposite of !; that is, not 
excitement but sighdom.) Actually, you will find that there 
very few monospaced laser fonts around; Adobe(TM) has a 
couple, I sell a couple Ä, not too many others. This 
particular font is one of many ProtoType(R), that is, early 
versions of fonts that I will make into future commercial 
fonts, but without many nicities, like tuned bitmaps and 
Apple(TM) approved FOND family numbers. No, this is a font 
with its own dog-eared icon, but everything else is 
straight from a Fontographer(TM) 3.1 compilation. It is a 
Type 1 font, which means that it is smaller and prints 
faster than the older Type 3 fonts; and it has Q-hints and 
looks okay at small type sizes Ä oh yes, you can use it 
with ATM as well. I realize that the screen fonts are not 
exceptionally clear; on the other hand, Fontographer(TM) 
really does a pretty good job of making the bitmaps at 
least readable.

Printing this document: Be sure to follow these 
instructions for best results when printing directly from 
this DocMaker(R) file. These hints are not because of any 
fault with DocMaker(R), but have to do with the vagaries of 
printing when the font is buried within the document 
itself. First, install the Monotony­(R) Screen Fonts in 
your system file with Font/DA Mover 3.8 or higher, or use 
Suitcase(R) or MasterJuggler(R) to load them. Copy the 
downloadable Postscript(TM) file MonotBoo to your System 
Folder, and then you can print this document directly from 
the File menu. If you do NOT install the screen fonts, you 
can still print this document, but you must turn off 
Background Printing if you using MultiFinder. If you don't, 
the spacing will no longer be monospaced. Also note that if 
you print this under Multifinder without installing the 
screen fonts, the Postscript(R) font MUST be in the System 
Folder (another ``feature'' of background printing under 
Multifinder­).

The bulk of the text in this document is Monotony­(R) 12 
point, and I think it looks a bit like Letter Gothic. 
That's right, now you can make your expensive laser printer 
look like an IBM(TM) typewriter! If you like the results, 
then please feel free to use Monotony­(R) for your own 
personal use, and be sure to tell others how much you like 
it. Monotony­(R) is freely distributable as long as the 
three files at the top of this document are distributed 
together. Note that while there are no fees for 
Monotony­(R), it is NOT in the public domain and I retain 
all future rights for commercial and other uses.

Some uses for Monotony­(R): Office memos are inherently 
boring, so Monotony­(R) is perfect; some like monospaced 
fonts for reports, and for programm listings. Note that I 
have included font sizes down to 8 points. Because of the 
way I designed the font, the 8 point size is 4 points wide, 
or about 18 characters per inch, which will let you put 
quite a few characters on an 8.5 inch wide piece of paper:

Some uses for Monotony­(R): Office memos are inherently 
boring, so Monotony­(R) is perfect; some like monospaced 
fonts for reports, and for programm listings. Note that I 
have included font sizes down to 8 points. Because of the 
way I designed the font, the 8 point size is 4 points wide, 
or about 18 characters per inch, which will let you put 
quite a few characters on an 8.5 inch wide piece of paper:

As long as you use an even size, like 8 or 10 points, this 
should print absolutely in monospace; if you try a 9 or 11, 
you probably will get better results if you use fractional 
spacing when you print. The reasons for this are truly 
arcane and only for the dyed-in-the wool macHacker; 
besides, I'm not sure I quite understand it myself.

Credits include Altsys and Earl Allen for their superb 
support and the dynamite product Fontographer(TM); Mark 
Wall for creating the DocMaker(R) application which made 
this document; Adobe for finally releasing the Type 1 
specs, and of course, Connie for putting up with this 
nonsense.


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