Category : Font Collections
Archive   : ALBATROS.ZIP
Filename : ALBATROS.TXT

 
Output of file : ALBATROS.TXT contained in archive : ALBATROS.ZIP
THIS FONT WAS BEEN CONVERTED FROM MAC TO PC FORMAT - THE FOLLOWING
WAS INCLUDED IN THE ORIGINAL MAC FILE:

December 1990

Notes on LORVADª (formerly Printers Devil) fonts:
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, and Dedalus
These fonts are NOT demos. They contain all the regular
alphanumeric characters. Most contain an assortment of special
characters. Fonts contain ÒhintingÓ; 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 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. IÕd 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 IÕd
rather spend my time polishing up the PostScript file than slaving
over an archaic bitmap screenfont.

LORVADª 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.

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 LORVADª 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.

If you paid for a disk with any of these fonts you are still
required to send in your registration fee if you decide to keep
them.

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.


  3 Responses to “Category : Font Collections
Archive   : ALBATROS.ZIP
Filename : ALBATROS.TXT

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/