The typeface is Salloon, one of the earliest typefaces I constructed, way back in 1988 or 1989 when I first got access to a little Macintosh SE and bought a copy of Fontographer (then at version 2.4.1). I released an extended version of this face as demoware, and you can still find it in various places on the net. Some of the versions that are out there for the PC have my documentation and copyright notices stripped out. It is that carelessness with intellectual property rights in typefaces which discourages many people from pursuing type design after they really understand how the system works. It is a major reason I no longer release shareware versions of typefaces.
Salloon was one of the few of my early designs that I consider worth anything.
Fat typefaces invite interior decoration, and here Salloon has been partially stripped. This effect looks better when printed with a high resolution printer than it does in this illustration. Fine detail requires big size and good resolution, and though the size is almost there, the resolution of the computer screen is not.
This is Salloon with a mid-stripe. (It would look better if the kerning had been turned on.)
Typefaces tend to be designed as series. This is part of a small series called the Kyhota series, which looks a bit like the Wyoming series, but was completed several years earlier. It has a more traditional "Old-West" look because it is condensed. The uncondensed look of the Wyoming series is very unusual in "Old-West" fonts.
More of the Kyhota series, this is KyhotaTwo, another of my early typeface designs.
This is a strange face, with the square serifs and funny extensions on the capital letters, has a strange name: MedievalGunslinger. It combines some elements of medieval lettering with the stodginess of square-serif letters in an unusual mix. Both square serifs and the medieval look were popular in the nineteenth century, but they were never mixed quite like this.
RoundUp, which also has a bold styling, is a face with very large serifs and horizontals, but the serifs are round instead of square as they are in the Wyoming series and the Kyhota series. The very large serif means that this face will look best when it is kerned, which did not happen here. Of all the fonts illustrated in this story, RoundUp was the one constructed most recently. Does it indicates that I have gotten better with practice?
How is the story going so far? Ready for some more?