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- ToyBlockSampler
-
- A Free Typeface
-
- Welcome to ToyBlock Sampler, a free typeface designed for your Macintosh and
- postscript printer. This typeface has samples of six fonts which I am
- selling for a small fee. I hope you find it useful and interesting, but if
- you do not, remember that it is mostly meant as a way of letting you know
- about some typefaces which are much nicer than this one.
- On the upper case letters are letters for the font Swanville, Glitzy, and
- Sansville. Swanville was developed originally as part of a typeface called
- ChooChooOne, which has little train cars with the letters on it. I wanted a
- very bold style letter with a little serif on it that was reminiscent of
- passenger cars in the 19th century. A sample of ChooChooOne and ChooChooTwo
- can be seen on some of the punctuation keys. These two fonts are among the
- strangest typefaces you will find.
- Glitzy is my variation of a very popular Art Deco style. I have seen a dozen
- or so variations on this style, and here is another.
- Sansville resulted when I took the serif off Swanville and then cleaned up
- the letters. It is a very bold font, and if you do not have a font like it in
-
- your collection (some very nice ones are available form Adobe, but they are
- also quite expensive), you will find this one very useful.
- On the lower case letters are letters from two typefaces that have a
- 19th-century, Victorian style. From a to m the letters are from Saloon, and
- from n to z they are from Valenteena.
- Finally, on a few of the punctuation keys are blocks with items from a font
- of dingbats and borders. It has leaves, clocks, various types of stars, and
- much more.
- All of these fonts are display fonts, which means they are not meant for
- large blocks of text but for headlines, posters, etc. All have only upper
- case letters. Rather than simply repeat the upper case letters on the lower
- case keys, I have put condensed versions or smaller versions of the letters
- on some of them. On others the lower case letters are identical to the upper
- case letters. However, in cases where I have set some pairwise kerning, I
- have usually spent more time with the upper case set of letters. (Most of the
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- typefaces have some kerning built in. Page layout programs such as Pagemaker
- can use use it, but usually word processor programs can not.)
- As for ToyBlockSampler, there are some special effects on the option number
- keys. To put a top and a left side on a block, type Option 2, option 1, and
- the letter. To put a top and a right side on a block, type option 3, letter,
- option 4. Also, the space bar will give you an empty block on the printer
- (which will not show on your screen), and if you really want an empty space,
- use the number key (the thing above the 3).
- If you do not know how to install this font, the directions are quite simple.
-
- First, you should understand that the Macintosh uses two fonts, one for the
- screen and another for the printer. The screen font (or bit-mapped font) is
- in the little suitcase. You need the Font-DA mover, which Apple provided with
-
- your computer, to move this. If you have this program on your disk, double
- click on the suitcase named ToyBlockSampler. This will open it up on one side
-
- of a screen. On the other side you must open up the system in your system
- file, and when you do so, you will see a list of fonts presently installed in
-
- your system. Click on the name of ToyBlockSampler, and they click on copy.
- When the name ToyBlock Sampler appears with the other fonts installed on your
-
- system, the screen font has been successfully installed.
- To install the printer font, simply drag the icon that looks like a printer
- and which is named ToyBloSam into the system folder. You must have a
- postscript printer in order to use this. If you try to print on a dot-matrix
- printer, you will print the screen font, and the results will be
- disappointing.
- After you take a look at the letters on the toy blocks, I am sure you will be
-
- eager to know how to get these typefaces illustrated there and described
- here. They are available as volumes two and three of my typeface offerings.
- Both contain six fonts. Volume Two includes the following: Sansville,
- SansvilleBold, (which is really an extended version of Sansville), Swanville,
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- Glitzy, Dingville, and ChooChooOne. Volume Two includes Saloon,
- SaloonExtended, SaloonFrilled (which adds interior decoration to Saloon),
- Valenteena, ValenteenaStarved, (a narrow version of Valenteena) and
- ChooChooTwo (which has letters from Saloon on boxcars--a truly weird and
- wonderful typeface).
- Volumes 2 and 3 are available for the low price of $25.00 each. (Volume One
- is still available for $15.00, and is illustrated on the public domain font
- called StalingraDemo. It includes Zirkle, Bouncer, Dinner, and Stalingrad,
- and several variations of these. The price has gone up because I think the
- fonts in volumes 2 and 3 are better than those in 1. On the other hand, I
- cannot raise price too much because most people have limited uses for display
-
- fonts.) All three volumes are available for very reasonable price of $55.00.
-
- Send your money to:
-
- Robert Schenk
- Ingrid Germayne, Publisher
- Box 404
- Rensselaer, IN 47978
-
- Also, be sure to share ToyBlockSampler with all your computer friends who
- have access to a postscript printer, and be especially sure that you include
-
- this documentation with it.
-
- P.S. If you have any questions, you may write me at the above address, but
- if you want a response, you must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope
- (or money with an order).
-
- February 20, 1989
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