Character Set

Character Set


LaserTrain (Plain, Bold)

(available at myfonts.com and fonts.com)

One of the first typefaces I designed was ChooChoo, in which letters rode on train cars. I do not know where the inspiration for this typeface came from--it just came. It was created as a type 3 typeface with Fontographer 2.4.1, and because I relied heavily on composite characters and strokes, it did not seem worth the while to convert it to Type 1 when Fontographer got the capability to produce Type 1 faces. LaserTrain is derived from ChooChoo. It takes the train element and expands on it. A user suggested that I add smoke to the typeface, and the bold version is the result. (A PostScript printer will work best with this typeface because I put some of the design in places TrueType [and Adobe's Type Manager] do not want things to be.) Laser Train resembles a toy train more than a real train.

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altered but not revised Jan 2008