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Borzoi
2 September 1991-original release
Borzoi Reader is one of a series of complimentary ProtoType from
phi*JaMaCon associates. In creating commercial fonts, there are many
prototypes made, some of which are useful in their own right. Each ProtoType
release as of 21 April 1991 contains Type 1 hinted (usually) laser fonts
along with the TrueTypeª equivalents.
To use any ProtoType Type 1 font, copy the laser font to your System Folder,
and install the screen fonts either in your System file with Font/DA Mover
3.8 or higher, or use MasterJuggler or Suitcase to install them. To install
any ProtoType TrueType font, copy the suitcase with extension (TT) to your
system file with FONT/DA Mover 4.1 or above, or use Suitcaseª version 1.2.11
or above.
Some notes on TrueType. Older Apple LaserWriters don't have enough memory to
use the TrueType scaler. The Apple print driver will then create a Type1
unhinted Postscript font and download that to the printer. For some
ProtoType, nonhinting gives very uneven stems; in that case use the
Postscript fonts. (Bummer, I have an old Laserwriter myself).
Borzoi is a text font with only three faces, Plain, Italic and Bold. Just
like Century Old Style from Adobe. The plain was inspired by Sumner
Stone's Stone Informal, but is sans serif. The italic is basically obliqued
upper case, while the lower case has been modeled after Chancery cursive
styles. The Bold is simply a bolded plain. I have been reading Walter
Tracy's book on type design, and have been impressed how a true or quasi
true italic gives a good contrast in print. If you choose Bold-Italic you
will just get the Italic version. The name comes from my college days in
which the English class had the ÒBorzoi Reader.Ó I always wondered what a
Borzoi was, just like I still wonder what a Georgetown Hoya is.
Borzoi was created in Fontstudio 2.0 from outlines first created in
Fontographer 2.x and 3.x. At this point in time, 2 Sept 91, Fontstudio
feels to me to have a somewhat better overall program with outstanding
documentation, but it is quite slow compared to Fontographer. And the
creation of the font families was done with StyleMerger, another Altsys
utility. All this to say that the serious font creator does need both, as
many others have pointed out.
Credits go to Altsys and Earl Allen for their outstanding support of
Fontographer, Metamorphosis etc, to Letraset for Fontstudio 2.0, and of
course to Connie, who puts up with all this nonsense.
Font Formats: - Adobe (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
- DMF (+ bitmap)
- Bitmap (Black&White)
- IntelliFont
Font ID: 19735/19736/19737/19738
Directory: Sans Serif/Borzoi
If you like the font, please feel free to use and distribute them.
You are not allowed to modify them in any way; for example, you are not
allowed to use Metamorphosis or Font Monger to create editable files.
Furthermore, phi*JaMaCon associates retains all current and future commercial
rights and other rights for all distributed ProtoType.
Phil Noguchi
phi*JaMaCon associates
5110 Viking Road
Bethesda, MD 20814-5711
USA