The EraserDust font is a rather large and detailed display font that looks like letters written in thick chalk on a blackboard. A full alphabet, punctuation and numbers are available. Lower-case characters are identical to upper-case characters EXCEPT A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S and T, which have alternate shapes in the lower-case slots. The lower-case N is written backwards and a backwards S may be found at shift-option S on Macintosh or ASCII 234 on PC. The word "AND" in lower-case letters may be found at the { (shift-bracket) character.
All numbers have alternate shapes at their shift-number locations, except shift-1 (exclamation point), shift 4 (dollar sign), shift 7 (ampersand) and shift 8 and 9 (parentheses); on Macintosh option-number will give you the alternate shape; for PC the ascii codes are 193 for 1, 166 for 7, 187 for 9 and 188 for zero; shift-4 produces the cent sign on Macintosh, ascii 162 for PC. Shift-option-4 produces the alternate 4 shape (PC: ascii 221).
The EraserDust font is copyright 1992 by David Rakowski, All Rights Reserved. Why do you need this font? Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom.
Why do you need this font? You probably don't. But if you do, here it is (talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.....), FINALLY. And it is distributed free of charge with the following restrictions: you may give it to friends, providing all the files from the original collection are included; nonprofit companies and user groups may include it on their nominal charge disks, with the same restrictions; for-profit companies are specifically prohibited from distributing the font in any way, shape or form on any disks on which a profit is made or attempted to be made.
Be forewarned that in order to look like chalk on a blackboard, the data for each character is EXTREMELY complex; it is not recommended you use this font at sizes smaller than about 48 points on a 300-dpi device; all the data that keeps your printer busy for so long calculating each character then goes for naught. As for printing this font on a 2540-dpi device and PostScript level 1, forget it. Too complex.
The EraserDust font comes to you from Insect Bytes, who are still wondering just why they called this font that. After all, isn't it chalk that makes dust? Don't erasers just pick up chalk dust? Obviously those Middle Eastern philosophies are starting to look mighty good to us, even if just for a moment. OK, never mind. We figured it out. See you next time.
