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From: kchang@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Chang)
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Subject: Re: List of Fonts
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.170245.28845@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:02:45 GMT
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Whoops.

In article <1991Apr17.160027.28295@ncsa.uiuc.edu> I wrote
>In article <6o7i12w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> amy.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Amy Brown) writes:
>>I did describe it in an earlier post...  it is the font on the B-52's album 
>>Bouncing Off The Satellites, and is also on the credits of Green Acres 
>>(scary, eh???).  
[a couple of sentences deleted]
>
>I haven't seen the one on Green Acres, but the font on the B-52's album
>looks like hand-lettering. Look closely at the 'E's. They're not identical.
>Neither Adobe nor Bitstream have the font. (Dom Casual is the closest.)
>The Image Club has something called "Balloon" which is vaguely close but
>also would have to be stretched horizontally. It's also somewhat slanted
>whereas the font on the B-52s album is upright.

Another look through the Bitstream catalog reveals they too have "Balloon".
They also have a font called "Freehand 575" which is the closest
approximation that I could find.

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