Font Design

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This month’s free font download at Softmaker is Delano Caps. The font is available at http://www.freefont.de/us. It is available in 3 formats – Windows TrueType and Type 1 PostScript and Macintosh Type 1 PostScript.

Delano Caps is a Display font and its attributes include decorative, engraving, caps only. Delano Caps is similar to URW Dextor which was originally designed by L. Meuffels in 1994. Dextor was originally offered by the French company, Mecanorma. It is also offered by URW, Linotype and Scangraphic.

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This month’s free font download at Softmaker (http://www.freefont.de/us/index.htm) is Henderson. It is available in 3 formats: TrueType Windows, Type 1 PostScript Windows and Type 1 Macintosh. Henderson is based on the Linotype Hawthorn typeface. Hawthorn is a serif typeface created for display usage. It was created by Mike Daines in 1968.

Henderson combines both round and sharp stems and serifs and it has a distinct, late 60s feel. It is at home with the late 60s pop art feel of its era. Its sharp and pointy serifs are probably its most unique feature. Henderson is slightly condensed with tall x-heights like many other display faces intended for use is advertising headlines.

The PostScript font format was developed by Adobe Systems, Inc. PostScript fonts are used by graphic designers and printers for desktop publishing applications like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. It is the preferred format for printed output and high resolution imagesetters. PostScript fonts are limited to 256 characters. The names encoding method is used in PostScript fonts. This means that the font identifiers are names like “slash”, “colon”, “comma”, “hyphen”, “period”, etc. PostScript fonts use two files – one file containing the PostScript font outlines and one file containing the font metrics and screen fonts.