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Sunday, July 31, 2011

OD&D and AD&D Fonts

I'm not sure how many of you will find this useful, but I did a search on the old D&D fonts, which led me to a thread on enworld with a link to a now defunct geocities page. Thankfully with the help of the way back machine, I was able to view an archived version of the page from 2009, which lists most of the fonts TSR used for OD&D and AD&D and most of their products associated with the brand. I used screengrab to snap up a pic of it, which you can find below. Some of this may be common knowledge, but there's a lot of other useful info there as well, and many variations of these fonts can be found on the web for free (i.e. Quentin Caps on http://dafont.com)

**edit** Thanks to Ohio Metal Militia, this page now has a new home. http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/tsrfonts.html

Here's the snapshot.

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6 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    The upload's nearly unreadable. I suspect that blogger put some nice image-resizing magic on it.

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  2. HitAdjacentAllyAugust 1, 2011 at 8:09 AM

    I am strong in Google-fu. The page has a new host:

    http://www.hahnlibrary.net/rpgs/tsrfonts.html

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  3. UnknownAugust 1, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    OMM: You are awesome.

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  4. RobChandlerAugust 1, 2011 at 8:13 AM

    Roger, did you click the image to open it? Maybe it's a screen resolution thing. When I open it, it's clear to me. Oh and nice work, Ohio!

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  5. UnknownAugust 1, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    Yeah. Downloaded it too. Opened it up in GIMP and it was still fuzzy. :(

    I did, however, find the 4e font list from EN World:

    Text font: Monotype Mentor
    Table font: Monotype Mentor Sans
    http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=420263
    (Yes, the price is for real.)

    Minor heading font: DNDLolthSC based on Scriptorium Ravenna
    http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/scriptorium/ravenna/

    Major heading font: DNDVecnaSC based on "Textura"
    (Haven't located this; Scott Rouse said the fonts are Mentor, Ravenna, and Textura)

    http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-fan-creations-house-rules/232716-fonts-4th-ed-d-d-ddm-2-0-a.html

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  6. UnknownAugust 1, 2011 at 8:50 AM

    Ugh. Now your header is all fuzzy too. Maybe it's my ISP here in Kuwait. I'll bet you it is. Can anyone else take a look and see if the header appears overly compressed to them?

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