Thanks to input and requests by registered users of MarkerFeltThin and MarkerFeltWide for a "finer" version of the MarkerFelts......I created MarkerFinePoint. An upper and lower case display font available in Type1 or TrueType formats , MarkerFinePoint makes typed messages look spontaneously hand lettered-- gives copy urging immediacy a casual, personal touch by looking hand written with an fine-point felt marker.
Use for eye-catching notices, ad display or to convey spontaneous, impulsive expression for a "take notice" effect. Instead of reaching for a trusted (hopefully capped) felt-tip pen loaded with permanent ink to scrawl impulsive messages, reach for the keyboard and click away. Works well with ATM.
Double quotes before and after are handled by the Mac's seldom used and often undiscovered built in keystrokes for making curly quotes instead of typewriter looking quotes (dumb quotes): Option-[ types a beginning double quote and Option-Shift-[ types an end double quote. Option-] types a single beginning quote and Option-Shift-] types an end single quote. Note: Many software programs now have the curly quotes stroke conversion automatically built into their program.
Try and ENJOY!.......then if you use it, honor the shareware fee of $12 and note if you're using Type 1 or TrueType. I'd also like to know where you downloaded/obtained the font: AOL, CompuServe, a MacUsers' Group or BBS, Shareware Disk or CD-Service, etc. If you SHARE this font, please include all files and documents in one folder. I'm especially pleased with response from professional DTP users AND MacUser Groups and BBS members. Fonts are available both in Type 1 and True Type Formats on AOL and CompuServe.
I currently teach drawing, painting, printmaking, year book DTP, and commercial art to future artists, possibly typographers (alias) high school students; and produce serious art for local, regional and national juried exhibitions, and I golf. I enjoy receiving samples/copies of work in which my fonts are used (an ad, layout, poster, brochure, newsletter etc.). I show the works to students -- they enjoy seeing what real people are really doing in the real world today with computers, DTPublishing and graphic design, especially on a Mac.
Comments, suggestions… both bricks and bouquets always welcome to Pat or Gail at the above address or:
CompuServe: 76307,2431.
America Online: Rps82
Hint: a software library search entering Rps82 will list all of my fonts except OregonWet which is under Rps8. On CServe search/find 76307,2431.
History:
Since creating my first font SnyderSpeed Brush (11/91 v.1 upper case only), the encouragement of shareware fees and/or input from users, allowed me to update SnyderSpeed by adding lower case (1/92), plus create OregonWet (an AOL Nov. 91 top download), OregonDry, MarkerFeltThin 2/92, MarkerFeltWide 4/92 (used by Aldus Magazine's "New Comics" article, pgs.18-20 July/Aug '92 issue) and StarsAndStripes 7/92; updates to MarkerFeltThin v2, MFWide v2 and (SnyderSpeed Brush v3 9/92); ComicsCarToon 10/92; NeedlePointSew 11/92; 2/93 MarkerFinePoint
• 1/93 Altsys Corp. (makers of Fontographer) used the MarkerFelt Fonts for a major mail promotion announcing Fontographer for the PC and purchased all of my fonts, also asking for a news article regarding how I use their program to create fonts.
