Arrowhead Lake by Character
Font:ArrowheadLake
Author:Character
Post Date:December 19, 2009
Comments:Arrowhead is on page 2 of Special Effects and Topical Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also on page 74 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:05:31 -0800 Subject: [Introducing]: ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows, based on Solotype Catalog p.74 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts ArrowheadLake and , based on p.74 For some reason these don't appear to have been previously digitized. - Character Attachment: ArrowheadLake.zip [See font download link below]

From: Dick Margulis <margulisd©comcast.net> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:06:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [Introducing]: ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows, based on Solotype Catalog p.74 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Interesting. Would you be offended if I made a technical criticism? This may be a faithful recreation of the original (I don't know), but at least in the Windows default viewer, it appears there are problems with stem width in some of the characters. Perhaps this is just a hinting issue and the effect disappears when printed at high resolution, but in the quick brown fox pangram, the k, p, q, s, y, and z stick out as noticeably heavier than the other lowercase letters. Only the T is capped, so without doing some testing I can't say anything about the caps. The effect is less noticeable in the shadow version.

Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:06:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [Introducing]: ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows, based on Solotype Catalog p.74 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Dick Margulis <margulisd©comcast.net> wrote in news:bdKdnSnwp8uvmLPWnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@supernews.com: > Perhaps this is just a hinting issue Ici c'est un problème de hints. :-) claude
Google translation:
Here is a problem of hints. :-)
Attachment: Hints.jpg
From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:40:41 -0800 Subject: Re: [Introducing]: ArrowheadLake and ArrowheadLakeShadows, based on Solotype Catalog p.74 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Arrggh! Thank you! That's what I get for deciding to post when I'm tired. Thought I'd gone through and fixed all the stroke widths (or at least made them consistent). Obviously missed more than just a few. In fact, the 's' looks like it's from the original scan and untouched. A revised/corrected version of the font will be forthcoming. I think the caps and numbers are OK, but I'll double check them at the same time. As far as its being a faithful reproduction, it really isn't. There are many differences in the relative sizes and shapes of the arrow points,the curved tails, and the letter 'z'. - Character

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:19:37 -0800 Subject: This is version 2. The first version had some size and shape errors that are corrected here. An Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts This is version 2. The first version had some size and shape errors that are corrected here. An alternate 'z' and some other minor glyphs are also included. The earlier versions should be discarded. The ArrowheadLake family is based on Arrowhead and Arrowhead and Arrowhead Shaded as found on page 74 of the Solotype Catalog and in Display Alphabets, by Dan Solo for Dover publications. A note on the font names: The 'Shaded' version in the catalog is really a 3D extrusion. This release includes THREE fonts: Solotype Arrowhead, produced here as ArrowheadLake Solotype Arrowhead Shaded, produced here as (3D extruded) also added (a separate true shadow effect) Attachment: ArrowheadVersion2.zip
 
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