Hi! My name is Sara, and I'm a fontaholic.

It's been three months since my las t download (not counting yesterday), but I'm afraid I've now slipped into the ar ea of fontmaking, with help from my friend Apostrophe who has taught me a little bit of how to do this. He's not responsible for my failings, only for some of the things I do right. This font, Summertime, was originally created for a splash page I never got arou nd to making. Maybe next summer... Like all my fonts, here I have consciously a imed at a handmade look, with rough edges here and there and elements which go t ogether but don't precisely match. This particular font is not a replica of any specific lettering style; it's just what came out of my digital pen while I was thinking about a nostalgic concept. It is meant to evoke the voice of hand-dra wn illustration and poster advertising alphabets from the late 19th-early 20th c entury, but even more the 1960s-70s craft-fair-and-flower-stand hand-rendered re vivals of those alphabet styles, which hold special summertime memories for me f rom my childhood. At some point, I hope to add to this family a set of highly decorated capitals a nd another set of complementary dings. I don't know when I'll get around to tho se; I only have one letter drawn in the decorated caps set at this point, and ma ybe two or three of the dings. There are no Cyrillic characters and only very few Greek characters. This is be cause I don't speak Russian or Greek and don't feel comfortable trying to mess w ith symbols I don't really know intimately. The Greek characters here are ones I find myself using often. I still don't really know what I'm doing as a fontographer, but I do like making letterforms. I tend to design with the idea that the people who will use my fo nts will use them the way I use them, as outlines in Illustrator. This makes my fonts kind of a pain for everyone else to use. Someday, if I ever do learn eve rything I'm supposed to, I will go back and make these early efforts more profes sional. Meanwhile, though, because I don't really know what I'm doing, I've dec ided to stuff everything that doesn't fit into the standard character set into a n alternate set, the Extra Character set. (And by the way, this font features n ormal and oblique faces for both the standard set and the Extra Character set.) Therefore, if you're looking for a non-English character that's outside of the u sual 256-character list, it's probably somewhere but maybe not where you'd expec t, so you should pay careful attention to the character maps in your type manage r. Of course, if you only use Microsoft Word, you don't have to worry about any of this; you will find all the characters I made in the TrueType font's "Insert Symbol" menu/map. But the rest of you are kind of on your own. Now about that copyright...I copyrighted this font ONLY to protect it from resal e, but you may use it however else you wish. Go ahead: Use it commercially or personally! Reorganize the character map! Make new characters! Do whatever yo u like, only DO NOT try to make money off of any sale of the font itself or any variation thereof, and don't even think of renaming it. I spent some time devis ing original letterforms for this project. I specifically did this for my own a musement, to increase the number of free fonts in the world, and to accomplish a specific project which I have not yet finished. I did not make this font in or der to create new things for people to buy, or to create new ways for lazy peopl e to profit without working. I have lots of friends who are lawyers. Consequently, even though we all have b etter things to do in this life than enforce my copyrights, if I do catch you in fringing one, it will not go well for you. If you want to give a free copy of t his font to every single person on the planet, or if you want to alter this desi gn or try to take it to a level of excellence I don't have time to pursue, go fo r it! I will not consider either an infringement. The only ways you can infrin

ge this copyright are to either say you made it up from scratch, rename it, or t o try to sell it or any variation you come up with without my express written pe rmission. And I'm telling you now, you will only get that permission if you pla n to sell it to benefit a secular charity. Anyway, that said, I truly hope you enjoy this font and that you will use it in good health. Cheers, and best wishes! Sara Fine Art - Illustration - Graphic Design website: http://www.saraarts.com e-mail: sara@saraarts.com