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Font family: Cup and Talon

Font subfamily identification: Regular

Unique identifier: S.JohnRoss: Cup and Talon: 2003

Full font name: Cup and Talon

Version: Version 1.0; 2003; initial release

Postscript font name: CupandTalon

Trademark notice: Cup and Talon is a trademark of S. John Ross.

Designer: S. John Ross

Description: A mediocre bit of hand-drawn calligraphy made more interesting and useful with expert stressing.

www.cumberlandgames.com

www.cumberlandgames.com

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CUP AND TALON
A TrueType Font by S. John Ross
Cumberland Games & Diversions
www.cumberlandgames.com

I named Cup and Talon for the oldest tavern in my fantasy campaign ... The same one I've been mentally bumming around in since I was sixteen (as of this year, I've been mentally bumming around in fantasy taverns for more than half my life, and I guess that's worth a font name if anything is).

The font began as just a doodling exercise. I'm really, really terrible at actual calligraphy, so I was trying out a new wedge marker and attempting to make a reasonable, light handed calligraphic script. I failed at that, so I just let the sample languish in one of my writing notebooks. Recently, while doing some housecleaning, I ran across it again and decided to play around with it in Photoshop, experimenting with a new kind of stressing I wanted to try, with a kind of textured series of horizontal lines "showing through" where the image is weakest. The combination of good stressing effects, a little vertical rescaling, and my mediocre calligraphy made for a font I'm suddenly very fond of - a sincere if inexpert fantasy font, just about right for the signage and paper menus in my oldest fantasy tavern (there were a few shameful years in my life where I cared if it was "historical" for an RPG tavern to have paper menus, but I got over that with a vengeance and now most of them even offer cheap hot wings on a Tuesday night). Cup and Talon is a full-keyboard font with assorted extras tucked in, including curly quotes and full dashes.

This font is copyright 2003 by S. John Ross. "Cumberland Games & Diversions" is a trademark of S. John Ross. This font is freeware for personal, non-commercial use of any kind. Contact me at [email protected] if you're interested in a licence for public or organizational use.

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Version 1.0