________ ____________ __ ____________ __ ___ __ ____ tm / __/ \/ /_ / / / \/ / / / /_ / / \/ \ / _// \/ \ _\ \/ / / / / / / / / / /_/ / / / / / / / / /_ / /_/ / / / / / /___/_/_/_/_/ /_/_/_/\__/\__/\__/ /_/_/\__/_/_//_\\__/\__/_/_/_/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMITHOLUTION FONT RESEARCH - BITMAP FONTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - 18.12.2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______ __ ____ ___ / __/ \/ \/_ // _/ / _// / / / / / /_\ \ __ __ __ /_/ \__/_/_/ /_/\___/ /_/ /_/ /_/ Welcome to the Smitholution Font Area While working and testing around with various user-interfaces and operating systems, I recognized the lack of proper bitmap-fonts. Some are fuzzy, you can't read 'em or the spacing is simply horrible. Anti-Aliased vector-fonts are nice, but at small sizes they are useless. So I decided to build some bitmap-fonts on my own. Starting with my mac and a program called NFNT-Editor it went quite well. My focus was to create an optimized small font, that uses the screen-space very efficient, but I also wanted good readability on screen. Starting from that point the familiy grew and grew... Here they go... The Smithz Font Family Regular
_____________| This is the grandmother of all smithz-fonts... Regular Plus
_____________| Same as above, but 3pix-"T" and new "r" Caps
_____________| What about a capitals version, i gave it a try. Fixed
_____________| Once a year you need a monospaced font. This is mine. Bold
_____________| Of course there's need for a bold font. Caps Bold
_____________| The same bold thing, but added capitals. The Ultra-Series: Made because I wanted to see the look of 3-pix letters. I use it to add comments in pictures, that are very tiny, but they exist. Ultra
_____________| Remember those C-64 80-CHAR TOOL ? This is similar. Ultra Caps
_____________| And again, I tried a capitals version... Ultra Mini
_____________| I took the small capitals and made this. Oh, dear... Mini
_____________| This is very similar to silkscreen etc. but I did it anyway. The Menu-Series: Created for pull-down-menus or smiliar, but that's nonsense. You can use it anywhere, but the Menu-Cond looks very stylish in my menus. Menu Black
_____________| The first "bigger" font by me :-) Menu Black 2
_____________| Added 1 px more height for proportional reasons. Blocky! Menu Cond
_____________| This one is very good for menus, I use it every day. Menu Caps
_____________| Phew, this man always adds those capitals-thing. Menu Lite
_____________| It's the Menu-Font, but drawn with a fineliner. The Quad-Series: Created because I wanted a font based on squares. I should better say I like the look of those starship-style fonts. Quad-7
_____________| Watched too many Sci-Fi Movies and did this - and dingbatz! Quad-9
_____________| Liked it so much and made a stronger version. This one... Quad-5
_____________| Same Idea, but smaller... No Dingbatz this time... And now some real world testing... Using Mac-OS I want to show you the difference between Smithz Regular and Geneva, both used at 9 Point. Watch this...
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