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- Chasline is a fresh, semi-industrial display face of a style fairly popular
- with designers right now. I’ve seen Chasline-like faces used in everything
- from advertising to movie titles (Jack Nicholson’s “The Two Jakes”) to
- article openings in magazines (especially features having to do with design).
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- I created it because there was nothing like it on the market, and I needed
- something to use as a relatively hip logotype for my band.
- Chasline is partially inspired by the typeface Pulp Modern, a face by Nick
- Pavkovic and used extensively throughout his Pulp magazine. Pulp Modern,
- even if you could get it, couldn’t be used by any usual Mac programs, because
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- it exists only as set of seven or eight PostScript routines that are used to
- draw various parts of its characters (see the May 1990 issue of Publish).
- Chasline, however, can be used like any other Macintosh typeface. Chasline is
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- a homogeneous, almost minimalist face, which mirrors Pavkovic’s original idea
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- of creating every capital letter with only a few PostScript routines (my
- extensions to the face generally follow the same philosophy), but Chasline
- goes far beyond Pulp Modern’s caps-only letterforms and also includes
- lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation, and most other special
- characters, all of my own design.
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- In Pulp, Pulp Modern’s uppercase characters are used with liberal amounts of
- letterspacing (at least as wide as the characters themselves) — Chasline
- also works very well this way. Mixed case text in Chasline (or even just
- lowercase) has it’s own unique look and, I think, a really distinct color,
- partially because of the even strokes of the letterforms and also because
- its x-height is particularly low, with the stems of d’s, h’s, etc. reaching
- high above the baseline.
- Chasline could be used in body copy, but probably in small amounts only —
- and then I’m sure it would benefit from generous leading, possibly a little
- extra character spacing, and most likely typeset output. Chasline is also
- appropriate for some logos (though it’s certainly not neutral — I’m warning
- all plumbing supply stores, rendering services and morgues right now) and for
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- many types of heads, subheads, initial caps, etc.
- Chasline can be effectively manipulated in text-effect programs, and some
- transmogrifications work really well. And, like all typefaces that depend
- on kerning, it will look better using programs that support it (like
- PageMaker, QuarkExpress, FreeHand, Illustrator, etc.) then with
- typographically ignorant programs that don’t (Word is the only one I use
- that won’t).
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- T H E D E A L
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- Chasline is shareware. Feel free to pass it on, as long as you pass along the
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- entire StuffIt file. (Those of you distributing shareware collections, please
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- write for permission.) The version of Chasline in the archive is close to the
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- version you will receive if you decide you like it and pay the shareware
- fee. For $25 and a floppy you’ll get Chasline in an ATM-compatible type 1
- format — that version will also have any special characters that I’ve added
- since publishing this shareware version and, more significantly, an expanded
- and refined set of kerning pairs. This version is certainly not a cripple,
- but the version you buy will be better. If you use it, please pay for it.
- (Do it now!)
- I feel that the shareware fee is reasonable for my work. All shareware
- monies paid will (a) help me pay college tuition expenses, and (b) encourage
- me to release more of my work through the shareware system. Advance thanks
- to those of you with honor.
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- T H E D E T A I L S
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- Charles Wiltgen
- SyncOptic Font Foundry
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- 2410 Broadway, Apt. B
- Dubuque, Iowa 5200
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- $25 shareware fee + formatted diskette official release version
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- $28 if you’d rather I supplied the diskette
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- I know a lot of people out there have more experience in this field than me,
- and I’d like to polish this face to a high sheen — if you have any comments
- on the face as a whole (“What were you thinking?”, “Any chance for a small
- caps version?”) or on specific characters (“You know, I like the face but
- have you thought about trying this with the slash-0…”), please send me your
- comments. I will read and consider all of them, especially if there are
- helpful hints buried in the criticism! Thanks — and yes, if there’s interest,
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- I plan on creating Chasline Demi and Chasline Black that those who paid for
- the face will receive if they send a formatted disk and return postage.
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