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From: wamozart@teleport.com
Subject: Virtue 2.11 TrueType font--a replacement for Charcoal


Virtue
version 2.1, March 21, 1998
Copyright ©1997-1998 Marty P. Pfeiffer at Scooter Graphics.
Price: Free!

Virtue is my improvement of Apple Computer's "Charcoal" font appearing in 
Mac OS 8.

About Virtue:
There is a lot of controversy about Charcoal, and honestly, I think that 
most of it is unjustified. Basically, a lot of people did not want this 
font to appear in the Mac OS 8. I think that this feeling is based on a 
"reverse-engineered" font developed by Greg Landweber for his Aaron 
extension and Kaleidoscope control panel. Greg built his font from 
looking at various screenshots and did a good job at making a very 
complete font. However, the spacing information and special characters 
characters seemed a little off to me. It seems that Apple couldn't decide 
whether Charcoal should have two pixels between the letters or just one. 
This leads to a cramped appearance on screen.

So here's what I did: basically, I took his work and tried to space it 
how I would if I was making Apple's next font. I studied the "Chicago" 
system font and and used it as a template for my font. After about 2 
hours of tinkering, I had a bitmap font that looked really good as a 
replacement font for Kaleidoscope. About a week later, after tinkering 
some more, I made even more improvements.

And then I decided to create a regular weight of Virtue to go along with 
it. I tried to carry the unique features of Virtue into Virtue Light. 
It's currently just a 12 point bitmap font, but I thought that it might 
be useful for those of us who have smaller screens or are just tired of 
looking at bold fonts all day. I'd love to hear any comments you may have 
about Virtue-Light.