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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
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In <1990Jul13.154213.11818@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@athena.sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
>Has anyone ever wondered where the demo writers get those nice huge fonts for
>their scrolling messages? 
>
>One demo that I downloaded a few years ago (from a commercial service, no less)
>included a file named 77, which turned out to be a verbatim copy of a
>commercial 77 point Helvetica lookalike disk font (sold by Zuma, I think.)

Interestingly enough, fonts are not copyrightable.

Before you warm up your flame thrower, please reread the above statement. It
means no more and no less than what it says.

-larry

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