Meet Rocky!
Meet Rocky!Rocky is my newest dog. He's a purebred Labrador Retriever. I adopted/rescued him
when he was about 8 months old just about a year ago (Feb. 2002). He was
completely untrained and had a lot of bad habits, but he was full of love
and very sweet and he bonded with me intensely from the start. He turned 1
on June 15, 2002. He's pretty happy to be here in Doggie Heaven. (see
www.stanfrantz.com for pictures)
I've had a font for my other dog Lulu, "Princess Lulu", for a long time
now, so I thought it was about time I made one for Rocky.
So I thought to myself, what should a font named Rocky look like?
hmmm, lessee, Rocky is big, black, full of energy, playful, fun, wild, and
almost out of control.
So I cranked up FontLab, grabbed my CalComp Digital Tablet, and drew up
this font.
I think I hit it pretty close, huh? The first one, Rocky 1, is pretty much
all of those things.
Its got the basic punctuation I figured you might ever need for such a
font, suitable for garage sales, fund-raisers, bake sale flyers, etc. Its
free.
Then I got to thinking...what kind of things can I do to this font?
So I cleaned it up a bit and got it trained sort of and that's Rocky 2.
To make Rocky 2 I took advantage of the composite character feature to add
the same border image to all the characters. I thought that was pretty
cool. So I decided to make some more using this simple technique. All I had
to do was change one character, get it all set up right and I could
generate multiple versions of the same font using this simple formula.
Ironically, kind of like the Rocky movies, huh? (didja see how smoothly I
worked that in? clever ain't I)
With each successive one I learned some new tricks, just like Rocky does, and I cleaned up and adjusted individual letters and added more punctuation
along the way, always getting better and more refined as I progressed, (again just like the real
Rocky).
Downloads and purchase versions to be online soon! Stay tuned, better yet join the email list and you'll be notified as soon as any new fonts are released.
Official Release date is set for February 1st, 2003
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