HFF Pure Vain is based on Peruvian from page 91 of Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo and also on page 103 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
According to Bill, Peruvian is a Filmotype font designed in the 1950s.
From: HFF <have@fun.fonts>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:11:50 +0100
Subject: Sharing... HFF Pure Vain
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts
HFF Pure Vain is based on Peruvian, from page 91 of Brushstroke and
Free-Style Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo, first
published by Dover Publications in 1977. Peruvian is also featured on
page 103 of . The name
Pure Vain is an anagram of the original font name Peruvian.
HFF Pure Vain is a free font. You are free to use this font in any way
you want to. You can share this font with others if you wished to. Use
freely, share freely and, most of all, enjoy the font.
Have fun.
HFF
Attachment: HFF Pure Vain 1.1.zip [See font download link below]
Attachment: hff-pure-vain.jpg
Attachment: peruvian.jpg
It's fun, a nice drawing instead of a rectangle that usually has
for characters not exist.
Nice work
Attachment: carre1.gif
From: HFF <have@fun.fonts>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:48:36 +0100
Subject: Re: Sharing... HFF Pure Vain
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts
claude wrote:
> C'est le fun, un joli dessin à la place d'un rectangle qu'on a habituellement
> pour les caractères non excistant.
>
> Beau travail
>
> claude
>
Yes, I placed in the undefined glyph the drawing that was in the
Peruvian specimen page from the book. It looks better than the box or a
blank that is normally there.
HFF