Thirty Days of Fonts

On the last day of 2012, I began a 30-day free trial of a high-end Font Management program, FontExplorer. Herein, I exercise it during the trial period to tests its capacity -- and to explore some of the fonts I have gathered over the years.

First step: explore the 7100 fonts on a 10-year-old CD I bought some years ago, the 2004 Font: Font Library & Tools. Terms printed on the CD cover say "This CD-ROM consists of share and free fonts." I will eyeball the fonts, marking them into color categories (Yellow: wild/modern; Blue: Old-fashioned fonts redone; Green: suitable for thick ink coverage in large areas; and Red: symbol fonts.

Now, let's see what the Red Symbol fonts contain. I've always been curious about what is contained in the non-alphabetic fonts. Turns out to be split between skinny-limbed bikini babes, religious icons, and science-fiction symbols.

All Symbol fonts on Font: Font Library & Tools CD. Took me four days to get this done.

  1. Agathodaimon, Air Force, American Indian
  2. Amphib, AngelBear, Arboris, AnimalTrack
  3. Astro, Asian
  4. BSWingDings, BugBats, Bearpaw
  5. Brakiri, BugBats, Buttons
  6. Borders1, Borders2, BorderPics
  7. Beauties, BITSY, BMUAsian
  8. Cable, Cairo, Calendar
  9. Carta, Cathzulu, Centauri
  10. Cheq, Chevron, Chickabiddies
  11. Christendom, Christian Crosses I and II
  12. Christian Crosses III, Circle Dingz, Classified
  13. Coca-Cola, CodeofLife, Code39
  14. CombiNumerals, Comix FX, ComixCuties
  15. COnsum, CreditCards, Crop Circle Dingbats
  16. CropBats I and II, CrudHeads
  17. CthuluRunes, Cuties by Carlos, Cybertron
  18. YourKeys, creatures
  19. DANCEMAN, Darrian's Sexy Silhouettes 1-3
  20. Darrian's SS 4, Davy's Dingbats 1-3
  21. Deejay, Dethek, Devil Inside
  22. Dingbat Cats, Do I lie?, Doggy Print, DollyBat
  23. Doodle Art, Doodle Dudes, Dr. Seuss, DanceFloor Exit
  24. Eaglemania, Elvgren Pinups, Espruar
  25. Fabeldyr, Fabrini, Faith
  26. Fantastic Creatures, Far East, Fazings
  27. Fishy 1, Fishy 2, Fleurons, FloraDings
  28. Florals 2, Florals 1, Florissant, Fontalicious
  29. Frigate Katanka, Funny Face, Futhark
  30. [G] Between my eyes lurk these, Gabriel's Angels, Galactica Bats
  31. Gallaudet, GE Holiday, GE Nautical, GE Zodiac
  32. GeoType, Glagolitic, Gods of War
  33. Griffin, GrillBats, GunBats
  34. Halloweenies, Hansom, Harpers, Helloween
  35. Hippy Stamp, Hollow Weenie Bats, Hong's 2 Dings
  36. I Ching, Inter, Illuminati, ID4 Alient Script
  37. Learning Curve, Line Dings, Linus Face
  38. Listernagern, Little Big Man, Lovecraft's Diary
  39. Malcorian, Many Moods of Moe, Marseilles Tarot
  40. Match Morse, Mayan, Minbari
  41. Monster Masher, Monsters of Stone, Morse Code
  42. Music Fun
  43. Norpicons
  44. Old Time Ads, OMEGA Swirls, Orient Patterns
  45. Pakmara, PhilBATS, Pointers
  46. Poptics One, Two, Three
  47. Radios in Motion, RecycleIt
  48. Sams Dingbats, Sexy Silhouettes, SF Distant Galaxy
  49. Sixgun, SkiPop, SkullCaps
  50. Skullz, Spacey, Spirals, Stars Splats & Arrows
  51. Xmas, Tattoo 1, Tattoo 2, Tattooz
  52. The Kids, Toon
  53. US Army, USPS Bar Code
  54. Vorlon, We Love Corey, Your Sign
  55. ZingDings, Zymbols
12/31/2012