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Walrod Initials
from
Penguin Productions
A freeware effort by Jonathan Hodges
Hi!
This is version 1.2 of Walrod Initials, a freeware font available
to the DTP community.
It is a fairly accurate knockoff of Geometrica, a font originally
released in 1985 by Autologic from artwork prepared by Jeffrey G.
Level and Bruce Frame. It contains only 26 initial caps -- there
are no accompanying lower case letters or lining figures.
Geometrica, and its two sister fonts, Champ Fleury and Melencolia,
are stylized renderings of the work of 16th century artists Geofroy
Tory and Albrecht Dƒrer. Both wrote treatises outlining the procedure
for the geometric construction of Roman capitals. Each envisioned
the capital letter surrounded by a box that contained circles, arcs
and bisecting lines which follow rigid constraints.
Dover publishes a $4 edition that highlights Dƒrer's discussion on
capitals called "Of the Just Shaping of Letters." Tory's work, "Champ
Fleury," is more difficult to find (I've only seen excerpts, not
a full English translation). I highly recommend the Dover book for
anyone interested in gaining an insight to the forms of capital letters.
The volume is very popular among calligraphers.
Technically, this font was rendered on the Mac using Altsys╒ Fontographer
3.5.1 font editor. It is originally released as a Mac PostScript
Type 1 font (this is the READ.ME file for the PC TrueType version).
Each capital is type high, meaning they are EXACTLY equal to the
font size called (in 12-pt. type, the font letters will render 12
points high, in 72-pt., they'll be 72 points high, etc.). This may
cause a problem for some applications that expect a font to have
a descender. Those applications may render the font on the screen
a little squashed, but it should print out fine. If not, please drop
me a message and I'll reduce the cap height.
Files included in this upload are:
WAL.TTF The PC TrueType font
READ.ME The file you are reading
This font is being released as freeware. It is my gift back to those
who so frequently help me in my struggle to set decent type in a
PostScript environment (such as Brad Walrod, for whom the font is
named). The following restrictions, however, apply to its distribution:
this font can be freely passed along to other users as long as it
containes all files, including this READ.ME message. On CompuServe,
Walrod Initials is available on the DTPFORUM exclusively. It is also
available in New York on a great little BBS called Laserboard. Other
bulletin boards wishing to upload the font should contact me for
permission.
It is NOT to be included in shareware collections sold for profit.
I dislike seeing my work lumped in with sales pitches that promise
"Over 200 megs of fonts!"
I don't have a huge legal staff, but please respect my wishes. This
font is intended to be shared among the telecommunicating typesetting
community -- primarily those who also give, either of their programming
or design talents, their knowledge or simply their sympathy when
someone encounters a print production problem not easily solved from
the desktop.
Being a Mac person, my PC experience is next to nil. According to
Altsys, font installation in Windows 3.1 requires launching the Control
Panel located in the Main Window, selecting the fonts utility and
clicking the Add... button. Choose the appropriate drive and directories
for the .TTF font, select the font and click the OK button. Your
fonts shoud appear in the Installed Fonts window. Close the dialog
and you're done. Supposedly, you don't have to even restart Windows.
Again, my apologies for my PC ignorance. I'm hoping John Cornicello,
PC sysop on Compuserve's DTPFORUM, will sort some of this out. If
he does, my thanks to him. If not, he is definitely not to blame.
Walrod Initials is released in memory of Glenn Rodgers, an apprentice
typographer at Characters Graphic Services, Inc., who died tragically
in 1992. He is sorely missed.
Notification of any problems with the font or requests for its upload
on other bulletin boards can be made to:
Jonathan Hodges
61 Winchester Road
Ronkonkoma, New York 11779
CIS #76276,3102
Revision history:
version 1.2 changed the bitmap from 23-pt. to 24-pt. and is considered
the release version of the font (that means I'll knock off TrueType
and PC versions now). NFNT # was changed from 3060 to 3061 due to
an internal conflict at Penguin Productions. Our mascot, Brad the
Wonder Penguin, moved from under the equal sign to his proper home
at Shift-Option-k, the spot Apple uses for its logo.
version 1.1 corrected four character so all characters have the same
width and the same right sidebar.
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The Font file names associated with this information file are:
WALROD W0002285.TTF