Character Set


MasheenConvicted

(available at myfonts.com)

A number of the fonts I produced for my last font CD for Wayzata were produced with a font distortion program called Font-O-Matic. Perhaps the most useful of all the effects of Font-O-Matic is the stripe effect. It can cut a font into stripes, with the size and angle of the stripes (mostly) controlled by the user. After I had used this effect on several fonts, I decide that the effect would be far more pleasing if the stripes were contained in an outline of the letter. Since this is not one of the effects Font-O-Matic produced, I needed to rework its output using Fontographer. About one half of my striped fonts on the No-Hype Type CD are fonts with an outline around the stripes, and I think you will find them a more pleasing group than the group that is just stripes.

When they are printed at smaller sizes, the striped fonts look gray rather than black.

MasheenConvicted has fairly coarse stripes within an outline. The effect reminded me of prison stripes, and hence the name. The parent font was Masheen, a simple, bold font that gave good results with Font-O-Matic.

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altered but not revised Jan 2008