SNYDER SPEED BRUSH 
v1.2
Shareware From An Oregon Artist, $15
Remit To:Pat Snyder
	1797 Ross Inlet Road
	Coos Bay, OR 97420
Send comments E-Mail to Pat or Gail [76307,2431]
SnyderSpeed v 1.2 is a Type 1 Postscript 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 display cards etc.; v1.2 updates the path of the E for use in programs that customize letters by needing to trace paths; adds lower case to a formerly all caps font and reworks the kerning.

In their bag of 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.

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. 

Punctuation uses normal keyboard strokes for:  : ; ' , . / and ?.  Double quotes before and after are handled by the Mac's seldom used and often undiscovered built in keystrokes for making curly quotes instead of typewriter looking quotes: .Option-[ types a beginning double quote and Option-Shift-[ types and end double quote. 

A sign painter for 50 years, my father taught me (among other alphabets/typefaces) the sign painter's bread and butter: 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, and commercial art to future artists, possibly typographers (alias) high school students; and also produce serious art for local, regional and national juried exhibitions.

This was my first attempt at recreating, my 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!). Since SnyderSpeed (11/91) with the encouragement of shareware fees and/or input from users, I've updated the font, plus created OregonWet (an AOL top 20, November 1991 pick), OregonDry and MarkerFeltThin.

ENJOY!