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The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Font
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Copyright (c) 2003 by John Stracke
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Not a very impressive piece of work, but fun. I sat down to fiddle
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with pfaedit, and started seeing what I could do freehand, with
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minimal splines. The result was all rounded (not surprising), sort of
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marshmallowy, and I started thinking of it as the Stay-Puft
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Marshmallow Font (see Ghostbusters if you don't get it). Once I had a
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name, I felt compelled to round out the font (ISO 8859-1, at least).
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The outcome looks sort of like Comic Sans MS. It's kind of cute, and
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might be good for frivolous stuff such as birthday cards. I've used
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it on my National Academy of Silly Walks merchandise
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(http://www.cafepress.com/sillywalks/).
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It is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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License (see COPYING.LIB). Where the LGPL refers to "source code", I
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take that to refer to the file called StayPuft.sfd, which is a file
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for editing with pfaedit (http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/), an outline
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font editor program. Thus, according to the LGPL, if you distribute
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this font, you must make StayPuft.sfd available to the recipient(s)
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under the terms the LGPL specifies for source availability. Each of
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the download links below is an archive (tarfile or zipfile) which
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includes StayPuft.sfd, the LGPL, a readme, and at least one font file
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(e.g., Isabella.ttf for TrueType files). I chose the LGPL instead of
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the GPL because, arguably, using the GPL might mean that PostScript
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and PDF files with this font embedded would be GPLed (they're like
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programs that link to a static library).
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The font has ASCII, Latin-1, and a few other useful characters: left
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and right quotation marks (single and double), ellipsis, long dash,
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and Euro. I don't intend to round it out as much as I did with
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Isabella (http://www.thibault.org/fonts/isabella/); this is a much
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less interesting project. Anyone who wants to donate extra
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letterforms is welcome, of course.
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