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Sources:
2_HEBREW, 8X10, 8X11SNSF, 8X14, 8X8, ANTIQUE, BACKWARD, BIGSERIF, BLCKSNSF,
BLOCK, BOLD, BROADWAY, COMPUTER, COURIER, CYRILLIC, FINNISH, FRESNO, FUTURE,
GREEK, HOLLOW, HYLAS, INVERTED, ITALICS, ITT, LCD, MEDIEVAL (renamed UNCIAL),
NORWAY, NORWAY2, REV8X8, REVERSE, ROMAN, SANSERIF, SCRIPT, STANDARD, STRETCH,
SUPER, THAI, THIN, THIN8X8 - These were part of a package called VGAFONTS.
They and the short program LOADFONT (with ASM source) were the whole of the
archive. I owe thanks to the unnamed person who collected the files and wrote
the original program. I've edited most of these fonts, at least to the
extent of extending the box draw characters.
Note: I've also included some fonts from the archive DLX2FONT. BOLD,
BLCKSNSF, 8X10, COURIER, 8X14, and SUPER were in this archive, and were
(according to FC) exact duplicates of the same fonts listed above. I'm not
sure, but I think the fonts in the DLX2FONT came earlier, because many
weren't finished, while the ones in VGAFONTS were either finished or close to
it. Any road, I'm making an attempt to finish them all.
Other fonts from DLX2FONT: CNTDOWN, ITALIC, ITALICS (renamed ITALICS2), LPA,
3270, APLS, OLDENG, GEORGIAN, FRAKTUR, GAELIC, SENAPL, and OCR were 8x14
fonts converted to 8x16.
APLS11, APLS10, APLS9, 3270-8, APLS8, PC8, APLS7, APLS6 were various sizes
(the number on the end of the name indicates the size); these were also from
DLX2FONT.
SCRAWL, SCRAWL-L, MODERN, MODERN-D - These were extracted from the VFONT
program by Ralph B. Smith Jr.
TINYTYPE, FONTASY, TECHTYPE - These fonts started out as EGA fonts, and were
written by Adam Rixey. I extracted them from the loaders, and modified them
by doubling the size, and adding to the bit maps so that the fonts will work
at any size (rather than 80x43 only).
BLOODY - This was in an archive all by itself, with no indication of the
author. It's a great font for halloween!
CGA, CALLIGRA, BRUSH, BROADWY1, YIDDISH, ROMANY, PERCY, PARKAVE, NUTSO,
LEGEND, BROADWAY (renamed BROADWY2), BODONI, GARITAL, GARAMOND, BAUHAUS, EVE,
AVANTGRD - These fonts were created by Paul McCarthy and Marquis Miyauchi.
BACKSLNT - This is one of mine; not very inventive, perhaps, but it's
interesting.
BARCODE - Another 'creation' of yours truly. It should be obvious
that this was created with a one-line for() loop... not very creative,
huh? Oh, well. :) Obviously, this is more of a prank font than
anything else. (If you _can_ read this stuff... have you considered
making some money on the side as a UPC scanner?)
RUSSIAN, RHUNCIAL - These were created by Richard Hardesty (who, BTW, speaks
and reads Russian, and thus was familiar enough with the Cyrillic keyboard
layout to make a font which is 'closer' than cyrillic.fnt). RHuncial is a
variation of uncial.fnt, with characters that look closer to hand-written
than the original. (This also makes it harder to read, but what the hey,
right? :) )
SMOOTH.FNT - This came off U'NI-net, from a message by Mike Hanewinckel.
It's a 'decorative' font for doing special pictures.
HEWTRAND.FNT - This is the ROM font on my machine; it's a good 'standard'
font.
RUSSIAN1.FNT - Yet another Cyrillic font, from a bare bones loader; I have
no idea where it originated.
BRAILLE, DECO, HIGHSEAS, WACKY, SWISS1, SWISS2, SWISS3, NEGATIVE, MORSE,
MIRROR, MIRROR2, RUNES, RUNES2, ROMAN2, MODERN1, MODERN2 - These were
extracted from fonts included with DeRouen's Fontman font manager program.
AMB, CHUNKY, F0, JULIE, JULIE2, KING, KOOL - These came from loaders
included with the Font Mania font editor.
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Note: As I said before, I've edited most of these fonts, thought not all
(I just don't have the _time_! :) ). In some cases, the editing was minor
(perhaps just extending the boxdraw characters); in other cases, I made
large changes (e.g., bold.fnt, which started out with only the lower
characters; I filled in the range from 128 to 255). In general, I've tried
to follow these guidelines:
* Box drawing characters and similar should be extended to the bottom of
the character block, so that boxes don't have annoying gaps in them.
* Accented characters (e.g., â, ç, é, etc.) should resemble their
unaccented counterparts. This takes work, but a 'half-done' font can
look pretty bad....
* The 'feel' of the font should extend to the whole font. This is an
extension of the last point. It's also more of a judgement call;
how far should one go with this? Should the box draw characters/greek
characters/control characters be changed? _Can_ they be changed?
(8x16 is too small for some effects with some characters.)
I hope you'll find these guidelines of use, but remember, they're _only_
guidelines.
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I'd like to thank Richard Kinch, for producing the file SF_LEGAL (which
appears in this archive under the name COPYFONT.DOC). After reading this
file, I obtained a copy of the full text of the Federal Register article
cited, and Mr. Kinch is (at least so far as I can see) correct: according
to the copyright office, fonts in any form are uncopyrightable, and may be
used by anyone for just about anything.
If you want to get in touch with me, send snail mail to:
Rick Owens
P.O. Box 1572
Kalispell, MT 59903, United States
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If you find or create some great new fonts, go ahead and add them to
the archive! Just be careful not to overwrite an existing font, and
don't forget to give yourself credit; here's some examples:
RADFONT - Created by John Doe.
CNDYCANE - Originally by Pat Smith, extracted and modified by Jane Roe.
Entries like this will help people upgrade their font library through the
addition of new fonts.
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