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Any good sources for Mac Fonts?

68kMLA 68k 3 posts Feb 16, 2009 to Feb 16, 2009

#1 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 - 21:48 68kMLA

Since OS X has no problems with PC fonts, the amount of fonts in a format capable of being used on a 68K Mac has really plummeted. Does anybody know of anywhere that might have Mac-format fonts that can be used on a System 7 system? I'm looking to create a Mac productivity environment to show that 10-15 year old software is just as good as the new stuff, but the lack of fonts is really killing me here.

#2 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 - 21:51 68kMLA

You could always use something like this to convert between Mac/PC TrueType formats – it should let you use PC format TTF files on a Mac.

#3 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 - 21:59 68kMLA

Hmm. There's something called fondu that should do that in Linux. I'll let folks know how it goes and if it goes well, maybe I'll upload a few chestnuts to somewhere, if someone could tell me where to upload to