Character Set


LetterTrain (Plain, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic)

(available at myfonts.com and fonts.com)

One of the first typeface I designed, probably already in 1988, was ChooChoo, in which the letters rode on train cars. It was created as a Type 3 PostScript font in Fontographer 2.4.1, and because it relied heavily on composite characters and strokes, it did not seem worthwhile to convert it to Type 1 when Fontographer got the ability to produce faces in type 1 format. (I released ChooChoo as shareware or demoware, and it must have been hard to convert, because I have not seen it in the cheap collections of shareware/freeware faces, which usually rely heavily on fonts converted without the author's permission.)

Though ChooChoo died, I did derive LaserTrain and Swanville from it. And when I got the opportunity to do Font Pro 2 for Wayzata, I decided that a new font in the style of ChooChoo would be relatively easy to do if I started with LaserTrain. The letters on the cars come from Swanville, SalloonExt, TiredOfCourier, PhederFract, and Qwatic. The typeface comes as a complete family which takes a lot of space.

LetterTrain is one of the more interesting of the many novelty fonts on the No-Hype Type CD. I hope some people can find a use for it.

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altered but not revised Jan 2008