(available at myfonts.com and fonts.com)

I like doing typefaces in the spirit of the 19th century. Perhaps this inclination indicates that I am out of touch with the 20th century. If I am, that may not be altogether bad. Though fonts of this sort are often associated with the "Old West" in the United States, they were in common use in the 19th century.

Salloon has an "Old West" look even though it was not modeled after any existing typeface. It is bold, and the upper case differs from the lower case in having extra bumps. Salloon, one of the best of my early typefaces, was illustrated in the "Type Drawer" column of Personal Publishing (later renamed Business Publishing; I am not sure it is still alive).

An early variant of Salloon, SaloonExt, was released as demo-ware in 1989 or 1990. It has traveled far and wide, and if you have seen lots of the shareware fonts, you probably have run into it. It was featured in the same column mentioned above, but there was no mention of my name with it--just some company which made money by selling other people's shareware products--a grave injustice in my opinion.

The version of SalloonExt on the No-Hype Type CD has improvement that the shareware version does not have.

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