Hi! This is a sampling of my new font Gravicon™. This is a heavy weight modern font, based on a stencil theme, fairly futuristic looking (think of those sci-fi wall stencils). The idea for this font arose during a heraldry activity (yes, heraldry) I was in at a summer session last year. It was at the Loyola Marymount University I was working on a design. For the logo, I came up with a few futuristic letters, 4T, and from that, it spawned a whole font. It's taken me a year to get to the point where I can release it (and even then I'm not sure it can't be improved on). It's got a full character set, a few dead characters, a set of symbols, and a few alternate characters (option-character). The two alternate characters are A and V.
If you have any comments or suggestions in the meantime, please send me some E-Mail. A finished version of the Gravicon™ family should be done by August. However I'd like some input on the kerning, the characters available, the resolution, the way this copy of Gravicon™-Display prints out on your printer and any font ID conflicts you might find. Bug reports should be E-Mailed to my AOL address. Thanks.
BTW, registered shareware users (by paying that fee for one of my other fonts) are discounted on future releases. Example - Gravicon-Display will be shareware for $15. For registered users I am only requesting $10 since I know all of you are loyal shareware users to whom an extra five dollars means another contribution to some other worthy shareware author. I was pleased at how many people actually sent in checks and postal orders for FoxTrot and Steelwolf. To date I have recived encouraging letters from over thirty different people from all over the US (thank you!). Additionally I have recived letters from Australia, Japan, Denmark, and Canada (an extra vote of thanks!).
To all of you who liked my fonts and paid for them and to all of those who may have not kept them but passed them on to friends and posted them up on BBSs and other places, an extra big thanks from me. Without all of you I doubt that I would have continued to keep my fonts shareware, much less have had the heart to design Gravicon™.
Tom C. Lai
Saturday, June 5, 1993
Just as a guideline, if you use this font for 30 days or more, it is a good indication that you would like to keep this font and pay the shareware or you want to delete it...
Please send a check made in U.S. funds to:
Snailmail: (NOTE ADDRESS CHANGE)
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Include your screen name on AOL if you wish or your mailing address.
(so that I may E-Mail or mail new releases if you so desire)
