I thought I had posted this years ago when I first started it but a search has turned up nothing so I guess I didn't. I remember Ascent commenting on the font so I know I posted it somewhere.<br /><br />Anyway, I've slowly been working on a Star Frontiers font. The original plan was just to make something to reproduce the logo. I did that and then filled in all the other capital letters. Here's a sample of what some logos look like in the font<br /><br /><img src="http://starfrontiers.info/data/sample.png" alt="Logos rendered with the Star Frontiers Font" height="300" width="420" /><br />That was a couple years ago. After I did that I started working on the number and punctuation but never posted the update. Well, now it's updated. Here is where the font now stands:<br /><br />All the standard ASCII characters (0-127) are defined. All the capital letters, digits and punctuation have been done. The lowercase letters are just place holders for the moment but at least they won't come up as boxes if you use the font in software. Right now the lowercase letters are just a generic sans serif font. I still need to stylize them. I might need to work the numbers a little as well but I have to think about that. In any case, you should now be able to use the font in other programs.<br /><br />Note: There are two special characters in this font. The first is a capital A that is shifted to the right so that when printed next to a capital F, P, T, V, or Y the spacing is appropriate and there isn't a big gap. This used to be the lower case 'a' but since I'm now working on lowercase letters, I've moved it to ASCII character code 161 instead of the upside down exclamation point.
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<br /><br />The second is the capital R with the long tail (the one in the logo samples above). This used to be the default capital R but I made the non-tail version the default since the tailed version is more for logo type stuff and not for general use. The tailed version is in ASCII character code 172 instead of the 'logical not' symbol ( ¬ ).
I figured we wouldn't need those two symbols in the font. <br /><br />It's a TrueType font and you can download it from the <a href="http://starfrontiers.info">StarFrontiers.info</a> site by clicking on the link below. Enjoy.<br /><br /><a href="http://starfrontiers.info/data/StarFrontiers.ttf">Star Frontiers TrueType Font Download<br /></a>
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