Assorted TrueType Fonts
(ver various)
Abandoned Freeware


Windows 2000 comes with a several "TrueType" fonts.  However, the
selection is quite limited, and although they may be fine for an 
occational letter, they really need to be expanded upon if you intend
to do any kind of desktop publishing.

Here are several hundred FREE TrueType fonts, donated by dozens of 
authors, that you can explore with a third-party Font Viewer (such as 
AMP Font Viewer).  When you choose a font you like (including its 
associated family of files, such as BOLD and ITALIC), you can install 
the font in your Font folder (where it can be viewed by Character Map), 
and use it in your programs.  

The font files are semi-sorted.  "Hollow" are outline fonts.  "Unicase" 
are fonts where either only Upper case or Lower case characters are 
included, or where the charaters in both the Upper case and lower case 
are absolutely identical.

"Blackletter" are those medieval looking fonts.  This category includes 
and the subcatecory "Germanic", with are the Old German looking fonts.

"Regular" are fonts that appear flat (non-3d looking) on the page, or 
that are not symbol fonts or fonts that simulate real objects (such as, 
for example, letters made from strands of rope).  Regular fonts are the
fonts you would most likely choose for the body of a letter.  

"Script" are fonts that look like cursive handwriting.  The category 
includes the subcategory "Printing", which are fonts that look like they
have been printed by hand.

"Shapes" are fonts that look like they have been formed from real objects
(such as strands of rope, pieces of rock, etc.), have been drawn to give
the feel of artwork (such as a sunrise, etc.), etceteras.  Typically, 
one would only use these fonts as decoration, such as in a headline.  

"Special" are symbols and special charatersets that one would use only 
in special circumstances.  Examples are Astrology symbols, musical notes,
Braille characters, etceteras.  The category includes the subcategory
"Fake", which are fonts that give the feel of foreign language characters.

Note that creating fonts that give the impression of hardware generated 
characters has become a popular hobby of late, so while the fonts here are
and excellent starting point, surf the Internet for even more creations.

file = "TrueType_Fonts.zip"

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Although most of the time you can get by with just the fonts that ship 
with Windows, Astrologers always have a need for a font set that will 
show the glyphs and aspects.  Allen Edwall has created such a TrueType 
font called "Horary Glyphs".  

file = "HORARY.zip" 

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Persons who have an interest in AT&T and the Bell Telephone System will 
find the officially used Western Electric font "Hawthorn" to be of use. 

file = "Hawthorn.zip"

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If you are an ANSI graphics collector, you are probably aware that there 
is a slight difference between high-character layout in the DOS 437 code 
page and the one used in Windows.  Also, as most of these image creators 
were using the default hardware generated VGA characters, this influenced 
the character shapes they selected to represent a "pixel" in the image.  
Here are two different TrueType fonts (one for ANSI graphic art created 
under pure DOS, and one for ANSI graphics created under a Windows command 
line), that will give a truer representation of the ANSI artists artwork.  

file = "VGA_437.zip"