#Zuma fonts
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Does anyone have any experience with Zuma fonts? I am looking for a Times
Roman-like typeface or something very legible. Preferably a font that looks
good when printed on an Epson. "Topaz" looks awful when printed.
George Glines
George, there is a file in DL16 that contains some fonts called OFONTS.ARC – I
thought we had another file that had 20+ fonts in it but I can't seem to find
it….Marlene
George,
I highly recommend the font disk from Classic Concepts Futureware. It is less
expensive than the Zuma fints, and contains more fonts.
Fonts included are…
Stripes — solid tops, striped bottoms…
Typewrite — sorta like you would expect.
Bold — bold, easy to read.
Italic — a true italic font, not a computed one.
Shadow — sort of an "outline" style.
Light — Skinny, tall thing.
Roma — a roman style
Cutout — A stencil-like font
Medium — not too skinny.
Romamed — a fatter roman style
Script — Self explanatory
Outline — Another "outline" style.
Lines — Somewhat like stripes, but more striped parts.
These come in various point sizes, and I have used some of them with Page
Setter to good effect. If you are looking for readability in small sizes that
can be used from the Amiga, try "ruby", it looks a little better to me.
Oh, and you can get the Classic Concepts disk for $14.95 from…
Classic Concepts Futureware
P.O. Box 94276
Richmond, BC, Canada
V6Y 2A6
Regards, Larry.
Larry, I uploaded Julie's demo a few months back. If you can find it, people
can see what the fonts look like as well.
Bri
Thanks Larry, I'll order that right away. I just got Pagesetter a couple of
days ago and I am looking for more fonts.
George
I'm a little curious as to why people sell font disks (at least at the
suggested retail price). Fonts are not copyrightable — only the names of the
fonts are.
Why curious Steve? Someone has to go through the effort of making up the fonts
in the first place, no trivial task if it is to be done properly, and the ones
I mentioned were done properly. By the way, they were done using a font editor
of her own design, written from scratch using the early RKMs, etc.
Interesting idea about fonts not being copyrightable though. Does that mean I
can use any fonts I find on a disk whether I have purchased the disk or not? I
suppose I can always call it something else.
Regards, Larry.
That's what I mean about interesting. Yes, SOMEONE has to design the fonts but
I wonder why they go to the trouble (if they want to sell them) because there
is no protection under the US copyright law for fonts — only the name of the
font.
Yes, you can use the fonts on any disk — just change the names.
That is fascinating!
I guess Julie was right in selling them. Though she is hardly a millionaire as
a result of it, at last count I heard that she had sold over 200 disks, and is
still getting orders. The price is extremely reasonable, far more so than the
Zuma fonts. She told me yesterday that she has another, fancy font almost ready
(a week or two now). It is one like the you see in children's story books as
the first letter in a chapter. Large and bold and all curly.
Regards, Larry.