fonts

After all the reminiscing that @emmajanedotnet and I were doing about typography the other day, I decided to hunt down an old novelty font I'd put together based on simple ballpoint pen block lettering. There's nothing particularly special about the font (I called it Verby Blocks) but some poking and prodding in FontForge ironed out some of the kinks. Why not post it for downloading?

I'm releasing it under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license; feel free to knock yourself out with it, embed it in web pages, fix problems, paint your dog funny colors, etc.

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The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

— Teddy Roosevelt

Oh look -- a free font!

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