JP Hand Straight & JP Hand Slanted -------------------------------------- Originally released as shareware in January 1994. Re-released as freeware in May 1997. These fonts imitate two types of poor handwriting (both my own, sadly). While they are installed as normal and italic versions of the same family to save menu space, I do not recommend using them together. Among the layout projects I do are high-school teachers' manuals and photocopiable worksheets. As a result, I use a lot of script fonts for correct (and wrong) answers, samples of what a student might write, fake bulletin-board notices, letters, etc. But many commercially available scripts are just too nice, and grunge fonts are usually too grungy. I prepared extensive samples of my own handwriting, scanned and autotraced them, and then brought the result into Altsys Fontographer 3.5.1 on a PC-compatible computer. To keep the scruffiness of the fonts, I tried not to clean up the scanned outlines more than was necessary to avoid PostScript errors and ensure adequate hinting. Both fonts have the complete Adobe standard character set. You may use JP Hand without payment, but you may not sell these fonts or distribute any modified version without my written consent. JP Hand may not be distributed without this text file. To avoid loss of quality, please do not convert these fonts to other formats without checking with me first. JP Hand is currently available in four formats (PostScript and TrueType for both Macintosh and Windows) and has been tested in all four formats. If you have received the wrong version, please download the version you need from: http://www.mlink.net/~paterson/jpfonts.htm Jonathan Paterson 3534 de Lorimier Montreal, Quebec Canada H2K 3X6 E-Mail: paterson@mlink.net