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- Strongman and Strongman Bold by Richard M. Coda
-
- Strongman and Strongman Bold are based on two old engraving fonts
- called Strongly 3 Line and Strongly 5 Line. The significance of
- the "Lines" is that the weight of the font was controlled by how
- many "lines" were used to draw it - the more lines, the bolder the
- font.
-
- Strongman was scanned in directly from an old steel Panograph
- engraving plate. These are the masters that were used to create
- engraved dies for printing on engraving presses (this is the way
- it was done 100 years ago). From these dies fine engraved stationery
- was produced. Strongman was then produced using ZSoft's Publisher's
- TypeFoundry and SoftType.
-
- Strongman Bold could have been done the same way but it is very time
- consuming (and a P.I.T.A!). And besides, the scanned images that result
- from these Panograph plates are horrible and require a great deal of
- cleaning up. I chose, however, to try CorelDraw for the bold version.
- I made a .WFN font out of Strongman and typed in the character set. Then
- I beefed it up with the pen tool. I tried converting this directly to a
- .WFN, but it didn't include the pen weight information, resulting in a
- clone of Strongman. So, I exported the file to a .PCX file and went
- through the entire process again. This time however, I didn't have to
- scan the plate in, and the resulting .PCX file was super clean. The
- straight letters were perfect. All letters with curves had to be touched
- up, but I created a master curve and popped it in where it was required.
- And that is the history of Strongman and Strongman Bold!
-
- These fonts are good for display, legal stationery, or anything you might
- need and "old" feel for. A Corel .WFN version is included for each font.
-
- These fonts are distributed as shareware. Feel free to distribute it to
- your friends with all 7 files intact (.TXT, .PFB, .PFM and .WFN). Please
- support the shareware concept. If you find that you have a use for these
- fonts, please remit $10.00 to:
-
- Richard M. Coda
- 230 Irving Place
- Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
-
- I welcome any comments on this font, or typography in general. Mail
- comments to the above address, or send to CompuServe address 73700,2307.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- RMC
-