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From: soeren@beansidhe.ms.sub.org (Soeren M Soerries)
Subject: pls help improve 3-line font
Message-ID: <1994May23.152720.32287@beansidhe.ms.sub.org>
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Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 15:27:20 GMT
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Not a whole font set, but the name of my machine in ascii.  I mostly see
it in a bold font, where it is easily readable and needs no improvement...
with a normal font however, the shades are absolutely wrong and people
had a hard time figuring out what it meant...

  dP"o  dP""" .dP8.  d8  dP.dP"o  ** dP"Yo  dP dP dP"""
 dP""o dP""  d8oodP dP"bdP "bq.  dP dP  dP d8odP dP""
d8oo" d8ooo dP  dP dP  8P "oodP dP d8odP' dP dP d8ooo

  dP"o  dP""" .dP8.  db dP.dP"o  *  dPYo  dP dP dP"""
 dP""o dP""  d8oodP dP8dP "bq.  dP dP dP d8odP dP""
d8oo" d8ooo dP  dP dP 8P "oodP dP d8dP' dP dP d8ooo
                     
                .dP8.
         dP""" d8oodP d8  dP
  dP"o  dP""  dP  dP dP"bdP -       
 dP""o d8ooo        dP  8P
d8oo"       dP"Yo        dP"""
        ** dP  dP dP dP dP""
 .dP"o dP d8odP' d8odP d8ooo
 "bq. dP        dP dP
"oodP 

Oh well, yes, so far i made it myself and have borrowed other people's
ideas, beginning with old Gutenberg...

Problems are with the -S-, -B- and -E- where the shading is absolutely
wrong.  There isn's suposed to be shadows at all, I meant it to look
just like some bold italic font.

The -I- has the known problem with the "*" asterisk that some fonts
have as a very bright space filling "=X=" symbol and others more like
a degree-sign or i-dot in the upper half of the line.

Any improvement or helpful advice is very welcome, email or posts alike.

  Soeren // ISO 8859-1:  S�ren
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