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- February 1991
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- Notes on LORVAD™ (formerly Printers Devil) fonts:
- LoopDeLoop is a fun display font. Its uppercase characters are based on
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- the font Bee Line. They have a stroked effect simulating a continuous line,
- looped to create each character. The lowercase characters are a solid
- variation on the shape of the uppercase. This set contains only about sixty
- characters. There is minimal kerning. Looks nice as an opening decorative
- capital. Shareware $10.
- Albatross is a text body font with a moderately short x-height. The
- relative point size is a bit small (i.e. 14 point is closer to what most
- people would consider 12 point). It contains all the regular characters and
- many special characters. Shareware $10.
- Judas is a display font patterned on Adobe wood type Ironwood. It
- contains only caps, numbers, and a few special characters. It seems to look
- best at 16 points or larger. Very interesting negative space It is
- shareware-$10 (or thirty silver dollars if you want us to feel guilty).
- LORVAD fonts include: Bodidly Bold, Oswald Black, Oswald Grey,
- BlackForest, InkaBod, CartWright, Judas, Albatross, Dedalus, and LoopDeLoop.
- These fonts are NOT demos. Unless noted they contain all the regular
- alphanumeric characters. Most contain an assortment of special characters.
- Fonts contain “hinting”; usually over one hundred kerning pairs are defined.
- AFM files are included. Bodidly Bold, Oswald Black, Blackforest, Inkabod,
- CartWright, Judas, Albatross, and Dedalus are type 1 PostScript fonts and may
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- also be used with ATM on non-PostScript printers. Oswald Grey , a type 3
- font, may only be used on PostScript printers. It has an 80% grey fill with
- a black border.
- Bodidly Bold and Oswald Black look great in small or large sizes. I’d
- recommend using Oswald Grey at 24 points or larger.
- BlackForest and Inkabod are designed without any curves. With one or
- two exceptions all angles are multiples of 45 degrees. BlackForest has an
- old world German feel. It seems to look best about 24 points. InkaBod is
- based on the bitmapped font Nordic. On the LaserWriter it looks great at 14
- points and above. On the ImageWriter, try it at 18 points and larger.
- CartWright is inspired by the Adobe wood type Ponderosa font. It
- contains only the basic 90+ characters.
- The bitmap screenfonts are just your basic Fontographer-generated
- characters with minimal touchup. With ATM on the market I’d rather spend my
- time polishing up the PostScript file than slaving over an archaic bitmap
- screenfont.
- LORVAD™ fonts are distributed in the spirit of shareware. Try them out
- for a month. If you decide to keep any of these fonts you are required to
- send a $10 per font registration fee to:
- LORVAD
- PoBox 1828
- Easton Md 21601
- Please indicate what font(s) you are registering. Maryland residents should
- include 5% sales tax.
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- These products may be distributed freely as long as the following
- conditions are met: The files may not be modified and this notice must be
- included with each font or group of LORVAD™ fonts; Fonts may be included on
- collections of Public Domain and Shareware disks providing that no more than
- $10 is charged for the disk. Distribution by electronic BBS is allowed.
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- If you paid for a disk with any of these fonts you are still required to
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- send in your registration fee if you decide to keep them.
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- The Bottom Line: We will continue to release laser fonts in a non-crippled
- format as long as there is a fair response to the registration fee.
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