Short: Fixed topaz rep. in sizes 5,6,8,10,11,12. Author: Daniel Westerberg (deniil@algonet.se) Uploader: Daniel Westerberg (deniil algonet se) Type: text/bfont Version: 1 Architecture: generic This is a set of fixed fonts mainly used as topaz replacements. They come in different sizes: 5x5 6x8 8x8 10x8 11x8 11x9 12x9 The 5 font doesn't look like the other sizes. It is desigend for schematics and such when you want an extremely small font. It's only readable in low-res, a magnifying glass or printed out on a high-res (modern) printer. The other fonts from 6 to 12 are desigend as topaz replacements for different resolutions. NOTE: There are two 11 fonts! One 8 pixels wide and one 9 pixels wide. The one that is 8 pixels wide looks like the sizes 6,8,10 fonts. The 9 pixels wide looks like the size 12 font. Default in this package is the 11x8 font. To change, just rename the '11' as '11x9' and the '11x8' as '11' and reboot (if you have opened any of the fonts). The history: Why did I make these fonts?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Once upon a time I had an Amiga500 with kickstart v1.3. I used it alot for music and later for programming DOS scripts and startup-sequences for my pack disks. All that time I was using the topaz/8 which came in the KS1.3. Then one day I got myself an Amiga1200 (which I'm still actually using :)). But there was something that bugged me alot about this new moster fast machine; the topaz.font. It had become so damn ugly, completely stiff and boring compared to the KS1.3 topaz. I just couldn't stand it, so I fired up the good old WB1.3 Fed and started to create a new font which should look as close to the KS1.3 topaz as possible. After a couple of hours Dale.font/8 was born. It didn't look exactly as the KS1.3 topaz but close enough, still with it's own distinctive touch. Especially the letter 'D' can be recognized in any Dale.font as slightly unique. Time when by and I was happy about my font. But then I saw that I wanted something more compact for the display of logfiles in SnoopDos among others. Therefor I took the 8 font and redesigned it to be a 6 font instead. All was good. Then all of a sudden I got my first VGA-monitor! Well, the 8 font was still good and now I could fit twice as much text on the screen and still be readable as the VGA is so much clearer than the TV I used before. However, after another bunch of years I got a BVision. Now I could push the old VGA monitor to it's maximum, 800x600. Dale/8 now became a bit too small so I had to make a new size. Dale.font/10 was born. But not so much later I got a new 17" SVGA monitor. Wow! Now I could use a WB in 1280x1024. The problem was that the Dale/10 was again a bit too small. I designed Dale/11x8. After a while I desided that 1280x1024 was a bit much to use on a 17" non- trinitron monitor so I reverted back to 1152x900. I used this for many years but got eventually fed up with the fact that all windows were overlapping so I again went up to 1280. But now I really needed a new font size. Dale/12 was born. This time I had to go away from the 8 pixel with because it was simply too narrow. Therefor I made it 9 pixels wide instead. I saw however that 12 pixels high wasted too much space. No point in running 1280 with such a large font. But I also saw that 9 pixels wide was good so I resesigned the 11 font to be 9 pixels wide instead. So when typing this I use 1280x1024 and Dale.font/11x9 :-) -- Other programs by Deniil 715! can be found on OnyxSoft homepage at: http://www.onyxsoft.nu/ Feel free to mail me if you found bugs or have suggestions!