Fonted History

Posted on January 27, 2005 by Gene

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I had a brief dalliance with creating fonts, and had some success… well, not financially or anything, but I did get noticed. I was even included in the Mac Shareware 500 book for three of my fonts: “Generations,” based on the typeface used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation titles; “Cable Dingbats,” a font consisting of network TV logos; and “Groening,” a font based on the handwriting of Matt Groening, creator of “Life in Hell” and “The Simpsons.”
I still see my typefaces here and there, I can tell they’re mine because of certain design flaws in them. My “Generations” font appears all over the place — people who’d rather not pay for the real professional version tend to download mine free.
And just today, I saw my “Groening” font on Boing Boing, decorating a fez from the Apple OpenDoc group.
History comes back to haunt us in the strangest ways.

Do you think I should dig out those fonts and post them here?