Barks font without Danish/Norwegian special characters

Gerd Syllwasschy gsy at megatel.de
Mon Jan 20 10:09:01 CET 2003


I wonder why this subject raises so much fuss. To clarify things: the
Barks font offered for download at the D.O.N.A.L.D. site is not an
official project of "the" German Donaldists. It was designed by *one*
German Donaldist for his own private use who later kindly decided to
make it available publicly. As for the missing international characters,
either he had no use for them or he didn't have the time to integrate
them. No need to accuse him of chauvinism.

(It is an interesting fact, by the way, that this font was mainly based
on Barks' lettering for The Pixilated Parrot - this probably being the
only Barks story which includes all ten digits.)

Anyway, this font is some 15 to 20 years old and technically outdated.
So it might be an interesting project for the typographic experts among
us to design a wholly new Barks font from scratch. This time including
even Icelandic special characters, of course.

Gerd



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