Found a large collection of font info

David N. Smith (IBM) dnsmith at watson.ibm.com
Sat Feb 19 00:10:37 UTC 2000


At 19:43 -0800 2/17/2000, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>I recently found a website (http://www.argonet.co.uk/bladerunner/fonts/) with
>about 2500 fonts available for download free. It has sample thumbnails of each
>one to see what it looks like, all the usual stuff one might expect.
>
>The interesting part is that they are intended strictly for Acorn machines -
>even the archival format is nominally Acorn only. However, there is actually a
>unix reader for the format somewhere, and if anyone wants one I can grab it
>decode it and zip it quite easily.
>Why might anyone want an Acorn only font? Well, the file format is pretty
>simple, the fonts (usually) have quite good hinting and include minimal
>skeletons so that the outlines don't completely disappear at small sizes and
>generally seem like a potentially good source of Squeak fonts - with no license
>problems to the best of my ability to tell.
>
>I don't personally have time right now to do anything with them, but those of
>you that have been playing with fonts might like to examine some and see if
>they are more useful than the UntrueType stuff.
>
>tim
>
>--
>Avoid GOTOs completely if you can keep the program readable.
>Tim Rowledge: tim at sumeru.stanford.edu (h)  <http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim>

Nice set of fonts, from a brief look. Maybe someone could use FUZZY as a starting point? Not quite in the Squeak for Kids tradition, but more in the keeping hackers alert category.  :-)
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