Price: $10 for 1 font and Kaleidoscope Color Scheme
Nu Casual is based on Apple Computer's bitmap font "Casual" featured on their line of Newton devices. This font is used by the Newton whenever the user types or writes anything. Designed to be highly readable on LCD screens, Casual is a great script bitmap font.
This font was previously unavailable to desktop computer users. I copied each character of the bitmap Casual font (first by squinting at my Message Pad 120 screen, then by a screen dump) into Fontographer and began designing a fully-scalable font. Quite a chore! But I think that the results are worth it.
Previous versions of Nu Casual were based on the 20 point bitmap. Starting with 2.0, I've used a new technique to make the scalable Nu Casual. The original "Casual" Newton font came in three different sizes: 14, 16, and 20. I designed an outline font based on each of these three sizes and then merged them together to form one font. This technique provides better results when making a scalable font from a bitmap. It takes into account the look of the font over a range of sizes, instead of just one.
I hope that you enjoy using these fonts as much as I enjoyed designing them for you! Send me your comments at marty@scootergraphics.com. And be sure to visit my webpage at: http://www.scootergraphics.com/
This is my Kaleidoscope Color Scheme that captures the "look
and feel" of Apple Computer's Newton OS. Notice that most
elements have a 2 pixel outline instead of the traditional 1 pixel.
This is to increase the user's recognition of different elements
on tiny LCD screens. It turns out that this works well for people
with monitors that are set to high resolutions.
Check out the Kaleidoscope home page if you don't already have this popular control panel (or you have an older version).
Why pay? Well, aside for helping Marty Pfeiffer pay for college, you will get an even greater benefit: the full version Nu Casual. That means that you will get one font containing the whole character set (with upper and lowercase letters, accented characters, special characters and numbers). You will notice that Nu Casual Demo lacks a full character set and prints out numbers as though they were bitmaps. This is to remind you that you are using a demo version and to encourage you to register. It is my policy to provide free updates for all of my software. Registered users are also the first ones notified when I update my software. Please see my page on how to register my fonts.
If you would like to include Nu Casual Demo on a CD or upload it to your favorite ftp site, please send me a note. I'm more than happy to allow Nu Sans Monospaced to be distributed through different channels, I just want to be in the loop :-) Info-Mac has my permission to distribute this package in any medium.
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