I've got two games I'm running today ... one a Risus/Uresia session and the other an unspecified game, possibly one about armed automobiles. Anyway, at the...
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ghalev
May 6, 2006 2:49 pm
It's not every day I have an excuse for a subject line like that. Of all the recent unlicensed commercial uses of Cumberland fonts (the Twix commercials,...
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ghalev
May 15, 2006 3:50 am
As a fun followup to the prior post: Sandra and I had a blast tonight as guests of the roller derby, who traded us access to the VIP door in exchange for...
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ghalev
Jun 19, 2006 2:48 pm
http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freefont.htm The Free Font of the Month has officially been retired and replaced. Here's hoping you enjoy the new iteration ......
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ghalev
Sep 10, 2006 6:53 am
A font web site has named the Cumberland Fontworks as a favorite: http://www.fontriver.com/award/ ... Which is the sort of thing I suppose I'm supposed to...
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ghalev
Sep 11, 2006 4:36 pm
This isn't a review, just a kind of annotated heads-up ;) I got my copy of Mark Galeotti's "Mythic Russia" RPG the other day, and of course (since I've been...
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ghalev
Sep 24, 2006 11:30 pm
Okay, so it's a font. At least it's a font that took a bit of elbow grease :) http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Haven't the foggiest idea why anyone...
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ghalev
Nov 2, 2006 12:45 pm
An unlikely new freebie at the top of the Free Stuff of the Moment Page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm See? This is the kind of madness we get...
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ghalev
Nov 4, 2006 7:06 am
I've uploaded an improved version of the evil ham game, with better responses, more smells and a smoother implementation of the locked refrigerator. I love...
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ghalev
Nov 16, 2006 9:29 pm
I spotted another Cumberland font the other day, this time at Wendy’s on a tray insert advertising their fast-food by way of a foster-parent charity. The...
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ghalev
Nov 20, 2006 11:47 am
I got a question in email that I figured I'd answer here on the list, since some other folks may be wondering the same thing. The question boils down to: When...
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ghalev
Jan 28, 2007 2:41 pm
I don't bother posting about every time I spot an unlicensed use of [font] Dirty Headline, because there's just too much. But here I am posting about it again...
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ghalev
Feb 1, 2007 6:41 pm
I know I deserve it, but ... :) My recent email to the fire-eaters hit a lot of (nearly 50%!) bouncing email addresses (which, naturally, is what I get when I...
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ghalev
Feb 23, 2007 10:33 am
The current Blue Desk update covers a top of (possible) general Cumberland interest: http://www.io.com/~sjohn/blueroom.htm And here's a paste for your...
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ghalev
Mar 20, 2007 12:28 pm
I make the odd post now and then about font-spotting (less as it becomes more ubiquitous - spotted three more in the last five days and I'm rapidly reaching...
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ghalev
May 8, 2007 5:01 am
We're moving to Denver, Colorado, at the end of the month (voon!), so I'll soon be putting placeholders up where the PayPal and direct-mail ordering pages are...
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ghalev
May 26, 2007 5:31 pm
We're snipping off our local Net access right now, so for the next week or so I'll be slow in answering emails. I'll still respond to customer inquiries/tech...
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ghalev
Jun 7, 2007 11:55 pm
PayPal and direct (postal) ordering are once again available. Hello from Denver!...
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ghalev
Jul 20, 2007 9:07 pm
It's been a couple of years since I posted the first Heirany font, "Heirany Bold-Marker," and it's much leaner sibling is now on the Free Stuff of the Moment...
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ghalev
Aug 13, 2007 4:57 am
The PDF I call "Spider Meat" is a hybrid article/extended adventure seed for use with Uresia: Grave of Heaven, but it can be easily adapted to any fantasy game...
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ghalev
Aug 28, 2007 5:38 am
The "Ham House" text-adventure micro-game will likely fall off the Free Stuff of the Moment page soon, so I did one last update to the file. This new version...
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ghalev
Nov 20, 2007 7:09 pm
The next release for Encounter Critical (mid-December if all goes well) is an old-school text adventure (z-machine format) plucked from an alternate 1979,...
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ghalev
Nov 20, 2007 11:10 pm
Okay, it's probably not wise for me to start getting Encounter Critical confused with SPARKS: Justice City, but the good news is that I've got a jam-packed and...
A couple of weeks ago, a customer emailed reporting trouble ordering from HyperBooks ... the trouble being, HyperBooks wasn't there. I assumed it was just a...
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ghalev
Jan 22, 2008 5:26 am
In reference to my earlier post: HyperBooks is officially closed (as of a few weeks ago), but Terry is okay. So, on balance, a far better scenario than I had...
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ghalev
Mar 5, 2008 6:10 am
As per usual, I've been avoiding doing the font-spotting posts unless something interesting comes up ... right now Cumberland fonts are plastered all over...
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ghalev
Mar 27, 2008 3:57 am
Up tonight on the Free Stuff of the Moment Page: http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm Another font in my growing library of goofy hand-drawn Roman fonts...
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ghalev
May 29, 2008 5:49 am
Hiya, folks! I've got two changes to announce, followed by Stuff. === TWO CHANGES First, the Cumberland Fontworks pages have just undergone a _major_...
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ghalev
Mar 24, 2009 2:41 pm
'Cause it's been awhile since I've done a stressed font :) http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/freestuff.htm...
