README for Squarish Sans CT

Squarish Sans is a typeface I never intended to make.

I had created a quasi-clone of Modula Tall called Marapfhont for the 
Marathon gaming community. (Modula Tall was used in the title display of 
the game.) Bank Gothic was used for the text of its manual, and a bit of
the UI. Because Bank Gothic was much more popular and several versions 
already existed, I saw no need to create another.

Then I learned that Aleph One, the open-sourced engine for playing 
Marathon games, needed to distribute Bank Gothic in order to display
the UI properly. No version of Bank Gothic existed under a free license,
so none could legally be thus distributed.  Squarish Sans was created
under the Open Font License to fill that void.

Squarish Sans is not a direct clone of any Bank Gothic. I have made
conscious choices to deviate from existing designs. Yet it is strongly
inspired by them, of course, particularly Michael Doret's DeLuxe Gothic,
in that Squarish Sans has a true lower case as well as small caps. It
should fit the bill should you have need of a Bank Gothic face.

Squarish Sans CT Medium is a complete font, with small caps supplied as
an OpenType feature.

Squarish Sans CT Medium SC is a limited small caps font, for use when your
software does not support OpenType.

Tim Larson
February 2011

Version history-----
0.8 20110809 More characters, and some fixes.
0.7 20110503 Two-story "a". Complete Greek/Hebrew. More kerning.
0.6 20110211 More characters, initial pass at kerning.
0.5 20110204 Basic ASCII range complete, ready for beta use.