Borzoi Reader
2 September 1991-original release

Borzoi Reader is 
one of a series of complimentary ProtoType(c) from phi*JaMaCon 
associates. In creating commercial fonts, there are many prototypes 
made, some of which are useful in their own right. Each ProtoType(c)  
release as of 21 April 1991 contains Type 1 hinted (usually) laser 
fonts along with the TrueType(c) equivalents.

To use any ProtoType(c) 
Type 1 font, copy the laser font to your System Folder, and install 
the screen fonts either in your System file with Font/DA Mover 3.8 or 
higher, or use MasterJuggler(c) or Suitcase(c) to install them. To 
install any ProtoType(c) TrueType(c) font, copy the suitcase with 
extension (TT) to your system file with FONT/DA Mover 4.1 or above, 
or use Suitcase(c) version 1.2.11 or above. If you like the font, 
please feel free to use and distribute them. You are not allowed to 
modify them in any way; for example, you are not allowed to use 
Metamorphosis or Font Monger to create editable files. Furthermore, 
phi*JaMaCon associates retains all current and future commercial 
rights and other rights for all distributed ProtoType(c).

Some notes 
on TrueType(c). Older Apple LaserWriters don't have enough memory to 
use the TrueType scaler. The Apple print driver will then create a 
Type1 unhinted Postscript font and download that to the printer. For 
some ProtoType(c), nonhinting gives very uneven stems; in that case 
use the Postscript fonts. (Bummer, I have an old Laserwriter 
myself).

Borzoi is a text font with only three faces, Plain, Italic 
and Bold. Just like Century Old Style from Adobe. The plain was 
inspired by Sumner Stone's Stone Informal, but is sans serif. The 
italic is basically obliqued upper case, while the lower case has 
been modeled after Chancery cursive styles. The Bold is simply a 
bolded plain. I have been reading Walter Tracy's book on type design, 
and have been impressed how a true or quasi true italic gives a good 
contrast in print. If you choose Bold-Italic you will just get the 
Italic version. The name comes from my college days in which the 
English class had the ŻBorzoi Reader.® I always wondered what a 
Borzoi was, just like I still wonder what a Georgetown Hoya is.

Borzoi was created in Fontstudio 2.0 from outlines first created in 
Fontographer 2.x and 3.x. At this point in time, 2 Sept 91, 
Fontstudio feels to me to have a somewhat better overall program with 
outstanding documentation, but it is quite slow compared to 
Fontographer. And the creation of the font families was done with 
StyleMerger, another Altsys utility. All this to say that the serious 
font creator does need both, as many others have pointed 
out.

Credits go to Altsys and Earl Allen for their outstanding 
support of Fontographer, Metamorphosis etc, to Letraset for 
Fontstudio 2.0, and of course to Connie, who puts up with all this 
nonsense.

Phil Noguchi
phi*JaMaCon associates
5110 Viking Road
Bethesda, MD  20814-5711
