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- Borzoi Reader
- 2 September 1991-original release
-
- Borzoi Reader is
- one of a series of complimentary ProtoType(c) from phi*JaMaCon
- associates. In creating commercial fonts, there are many prototypes
- made, some of which are useful in their own right. Each ProtoType(c)
- release as of 21 April 1991 contains Type 1 hinted (usually) laser
- fonts along with the TrueType(c) equivalents.
-
- To use any ProtoType(c)
- 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(c) or Suitcase(c) to install them. To
- install any ProtoType(c) TrueType(c) font, copy the suitcase with
- extension (TT) to your system file with FONT/DA Mover 4.1 or above,
- or use Suitcase(c) version 1.2.11 or above. 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(c).
-
- Some notes
- on TrueType(c). 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(c), 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 »Borzoi Reader.« 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.
-
- Phil Noguchi
- phi*JaMaCon associates
- 5110 Viking Road
- Bethesda, MD 20814-5711
-