roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (01/25/90)
I need a font for the Macintosh which fits the following
(admittedly strange) requirements. It must be non-proportionally spaced,
preferably with the vertical and horizontal spacing the same, and have lots
of white space around each character. Picture something like a crossword
puzzle font, and you'll get the right idea. It must also have the upper
and lower case english alphabet (a-z), and on the option keys, have the
same characters either reversed out (white on black) or black on grey.
Does such a thing, or something close to it, exist? The details of the
letterforms is of secondary importance. Right now, we hack something up
with Helvetica, but any sans serif font should do fine for our purposes,
and if we can only get serifs, that's OK too.
Lacking that, how hard would it be to construct a font like that on
the Mac, and what tools would be appropriate? About the only font making
tool I've used is fontedit on the Sun, which seems pretty minimal.
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