Alan Carr

Designer
1992–2004
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38
Families
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Styles
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Total versions
The storyAlan Carr: the freeware designer who digitized StopAlan Carr gave away more than a hundred fonts between 1992 and 2004 and left almost no trace of himself. His version of Stop, Aldo Novarese's most copied typeface, shows exactly where the freeware era got its drawings: Dan Solo's printed catalogs.Read the full story →

About

One of the early freeware revivalists: between about 1992 and 2004 he hand-digitized more than a hundred classic display faces in FontMonger, AdLib, Hobo, and Caslon Antique among them, and gave them away. His drawings track the printed catalogs of Dan X. Solo's Solotype archive; his Stop is a tracing of the face Solo's catalog listed as Interface.

He left no website, no interviews, and no biography; every file carries the same copyright line, 'Freeware! from A. Carr. Remember to vote!' FontSpace holds the largest surviving set of his work, 38 fonts, and his Carr-prefixed dingbat series (Balloons, Electronic Dingbats, Government, Keys, Space) remains in daily use.

Links

FontSpace→dafont catalog→Devroye index→
RoleDesigner
Active1992–2004
License mixacross 38 families — which way this catalog leans
Freeware 38 · 100%Commercial 0 · 0%Unknown 0 · 0%

Catalog

38 styles · one row per style, current version only.

Stop
Stop · Display · 1993
Stop
Freeware
Carr Balloons
Carr Balloons · Dingbat · 1993
Carr Balloons
Freeware
Paintbrush
Paintbrush · Script · 1993
Paintbrush
Freeware
Fletcher-Gothic
Fletcher-Gothic · Display · 1993
Fletcher-Gothic
Freeware

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