SnyderSpeed v 3 is a Type 1 Postscript display/headline font duplicating the spontaneous, hand-lettered, brush-stroke used by commercial artists and sign painters to create eye-catching copy for signs, banners, posters, window or show card displays etc.
Works well with ATM and SuitCase. Looks great at any size, but shines at sizes 36 and over. Move printer description file into system folder and move suitcase/screen font via the DA Mover or SuitCase etc. The AFM file can be discarded, if your software doesn't use AFM files.
In their bag of hand-lettered alphabets (typefaces), sign painters use the speed-brush technique when wanting to create a message looking active, bold, scripted, and free form. In reality, each stroke of every letter demands precise brush movement and pressure applied by eye with memorized spacing and proportion information. That was before computers.
Normal keyboard strokes will produce numbers, the hyphen and = sign, and these shifted symbols above numbers: ! $ % & ( ) +. I used the < and > keystrokes to produce superscripted numbers of 99 and 00 to give better visual effect when wanting to show prices ending this way: $3.99, $4.99 or $5.00 etc. Screen fonts: 24, 36, 48.
Punctuation uses normal keyboard strokes for: : ; ' , . / and ?. Double quotes before and after are handled by the Mac's often undiscovered built in keystrokes for making curly quotes instead of typewriter looking quotes: Option-[ types a beginning double quote and Option-Shift-[ types an end double quote. Option-] types a beginning single curly quote; Option-Shift-] makes an end single curly quote.
A sign painter for 50 years, my father taught me (among other alphabets/typefaces) the sign painter's bread and butter alphabet: Speed-brush lettering. After infinite hours of practice using paint with brush applied to rolls of banner paper while learning to recreate letters in sizes from one-inch up to two-foot high letters, this typeface served well when I was in the sign business in the 70s. I currently teach drawing, painting, printmaking, year book DTP, and commercial art to future artists, possibly typographers (alias) high school students; and produce serious art for local, regional and national juried exhibitions.
SnyderSpeed was my first attempt at recreating, a memorized sign-painting alphabets on the Mac. My wife dared me to apply my skills to the Mac she had begged me to buy her for Christmas in 1989. (Wasn't I a nice guy!). She works in DTP and claimed she could not find the brush stroke font she needed, at any price, anywhere.
I currently teach drawing, painting, printmaking, year book DTP, and commercial art to future artists, possibly typographers (alias) high school students; and produce serious art for local, regional and national juried exhibitions, and I golf. I enjoy receiving samples/copies of work in which my fonts were used (an ad, layout, poster, brochure, newsletter etc.). I show the works to students -- they enjoy seeing what real people are really doing in the real world today with computers, DTPublishing and graphic design, especially on a Mac.
Try and ENJOY!.......then if you use it, honor the shareware fee of $15 and note if you're using Type 1 or TrueType. I'd also like to know where you downloaded/obtained the font: AOL, CompuServe, a MacUsers' Group or BBS, Shareware Disk or CD-Service, etc. If you SHARE this font, please include all files and documents in one folder. I'm especially pleased with response from professional DTP users AND MacUser Group and BBSs members. Fonts are available both in Type 1 and True Type Formats on AOL and CompuServe.
Comments, suggestions… both bricks and bouquets always welcome to
Pat or Gail at the above address or:
CompuServe: 76307,2431.
America Online: Rps82
Hint: a software library search entering Rps82 will list all of my fonts
except OregonWet which is under Rps8. On CServe search/find 76307,2431.
History:
Since creating my first font SnyderSpeed Brush (11/91 v.1 upper case only), the encouragement of shareware fees and/or input from users, allowed me to update SnyderSpeed by adding lower case (1/92), plus create OregonWet (on AOL's Nov. 91 top download's list), OregonDry, MarkerFeltThin 2/92, MarkerFeltWide 4/92 (used by Aldus Magazine's "New Comics" article, pgs.18-20 July/Aug '92 issue) and StarsAndStripes 7/92; updates to MarkerFelt Thin v2, MFWide v2 and (SnyderSpeed Brush v3 9/92 and ComicsCartoon 10/92, both top downloads; NeedlePointSew 11/92.
