SNYDER SPEED BRUSH v3 9/92 Shareware From An Oregon Artist, $15 Remit To: Pat Snyder 1797 Ross Inlet Road Coos Bay, OR 97420 SnyderSpeed v 3 is a 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. Looks great at any size, but shines at sizes 36 and over. 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. 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. I'd also like to know where you downloaded/obtained the font: AOL, CompuServe, 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. Comments, suggestions both bricks and bouquets always welcome to Pat or Gail at the above address or: CompuServe: 76307,2431. America Online: Rps82 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. Thanks ahead of time for supporting shareware. -------------------------------------------------------------- Font converted from original format to Geoworks Ensemble format for upload and release to the America Online Geoworks Support Center Library with written permission from the author. -------------------------------------------------------------- This file is self-extracting. Just double click on it when offline and it will expand to show the Font file and a short description. To use with Ensemble 2.0, place the .FNT file in C:\GEOS20\USERDATA\FONT. To use with the 1.x version of GEOS, place it in C:\GEOWORKS\FONT. Of course, adjust for your specific GEOS directory if different from the above defaults. If Ensemble has been used to install the .FNT file, it will probably be necessary to exit GEOS and restart so the FONTBUF will be properly updated and display the font for use. ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This file has been virus checked with the latest McAfee Virus Scan version and found to contain no known viruses.