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The font-Journal™
Catalog Contribution Page

There are two methods to contribute to this project.
1. Create and submit a font to the font-Journal™ catalog.
2. Make a cash contribution to encourage us to continue developing it.

Currently, we feel the site is not far enough along to ask for donations.
Follow the instructions to submit your font set.

Submission to this Catalog Service is Intended for Legal Copyright Holders and their Agents, ONLY.
This is intended as a tool for designers and clientele to aid in a company involved (website or ad) design colaboration, though we certainly hope it is also a great aid in your marketing efforts as well.

If you are a font designer or publisher (whether commercial, shareware, freeware, or public domain) and would like to be included in the font-Journal™, we would greatly appreciate your contribution!

Note: You MUST own the Copyright for the submitted font or have the legal authority to represent the Copyright holder as his/her/their agent.

Symbiotic Design™ uses the following method to create the images:

1. Make the font available if it is not already.
2. In Adobe Photoshop® save the following images using the following instructions:
   (If you do not have Photoshop®, just send the font to the address below with the required information underlined and in red print below. I'll make the images for you when I can get around to it.)
   1. The Font Name Image introduces the font by name (ie: Arial Narrow).
      1. Open a new Photoshop document. Make sure it is large enough, 600x400 should be plenty.
      2. Select a white background and a black, dark, or high contrast color of your choice for the font.
      3. Using the required font, type the font name exactly as it appears in Photoshop's Font List (with exact characters and spacing or lack thereof) using the text tool with 48 point font size selected.
      4. You may include special effects such as embossing, texture overlay, drop shadow.
         1. To use the same settings as our defaults, use the following Photoshop layer effect settings (however, to make your font stand out, we do encourage originality, should you prefer it):
            1. Drop Shadow:
               1. Multiply Black at 50%.
               2. 120 degree angle Global light source.
               3. Distance of 5 px.
               4. Spread of 0%.
               5. Size of 5 px.
               6. Default Contour (square split between bottom left and top right corners).
               7. No Anti-alaising.
               8. No Noise.
            2. Bevel and Emboss:
               1. Inner Bevel Style with Smoothing Technique.
               2. Depth of 100%.
               3. Direction is Up.
               4. Size of 6 px.
               5. Softened 0 px.
               6. 120 degree angle Global light source.
               7. Altitude of 30 degrees.
               8. Default Gloss Contour (square split between bottom left and top right corners).
               9. Highlight set to Screen with White, Opacity set to 75%.
               10. Shadow set to Multiply with Black, Opacity set to 75%.
            3. Color Overlay using a Black Font:
               1. Font Color must be Black to get the same color we use.
               2. Color to Overlay should be set to 6666CC.
               3. Use 80% Opacity.
      5. Trim all sides of unused white space to reduce file size.
      6. Save this as "actualfontname_font-name.psd" where spaces which do appear in Photoshop's Font List are translated as underscores and unusual or illegal characters are ignored (ie: "arial_narrow_font-name.psd").
      7. Export (Save for Web) a 64 color GIF version using a selective palette.
   2. The Font Journal Image is used to compare font styles quickly, especially like fonts.
      1. Open a new Photoshop document. Make sure it is large enough, 600x400 should be plenty.
      2. Select a white background and a black, dark, or high contrast color of your choice for the font.
      3. Using the required font, type the word "Journal" (without the quotes) in a new Photoshop document window using 48 point font size.
      4. You may include special effects such as embossing, texture overlay, drop shadow.
         1. To use the same settings as our defaults, use the following Photoshop layer effect settings (however, to make your font stand out, we do encourage originality, should you prefer it):
            1. Drop Shadow:
               1. Multiply Black at 50%.
               2. 120 degree angle Global light source.
               3. Distance of 5 px.
               4. Spread of 0%.
               5. Size of 5 px.
               6. Default Contour (square split between bottom left and top right corners).
               7. No Anti-alaising.
               8. No Noise.
            2. Bevel and Emboss:
               1. Inner Bevel Style with Smoothing Technique.
               2. Depth of 100%.
               3. Direction is Up.
               4. Size of 6 px.
               5. Softened 0 px.
               6. 120 degree angle Global light source.
               7. Altitude of 30 degrees.
               8. Default Gloss Contour (square split between bottom left and top right corners).
               9. Highlight set to Screen with White, Opacity set to 75%.
               10. Shadow set to Multiply with Black, Opacity set to 75%.
            3. Color Overlay using a Black Font:
               1. Font Color must be Black to get the same color we use.
               2. Color to Overlay should be set to 6666CC.
               3. Use 80% Opacity.
      5. Trim all sides of unused white space to reduce file size.
      6. Save this as "actualfontname_font-journal.psd" where spaces which do appear in Photoshop's Font List are translated as underscores and unusual or illegal characters are ignored (ie: "arial_narrow_font-journal.psd").
      7. Export (Save for Web) a 64 color GIF version using a selective palette.
   3. The Font Brief Image is used to show a nearly complete set of the font characters and to compare font styles in detail.
      1. Open a new Photoshop document. Make sure it is large enough, 1600x400 should be plenty for even the widest and tallest of fonts.
      2. Select a white background and use a black font color.
      3. Now copy the new and improved character set on the six lines between (but not including) the following two horizontal rules from your browser (hold Ctrl and press C to Copy):
         
         

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         AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 # $ ¢ £ ¥ € ¤ % °
         < > ( ) [ ] { } : ; ~ ‘ " + - = . , ! ? / | \ • * & @ © ™ ®
         The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
         
         

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         These lines are simply:
         1st line characters: A single space, included to assure you get everything when you copy. You may use this line to include the font name as it is displayed in the Photoshop® font list, if you like.
         2nd line characters: The alphabet in both capitals and lowercase version (with no spaces).
         3rd line characters: The numerals 1 through 9 and 0, number sign symbol, dollar sign symbol, cents symbol, British pound symbol, Yen symbol, Euro Symbol, general currency symbol, percentile symbol, degree sign. Each of the special non-numerical characters are in code to assure that you can copy and paste them correctly even if you can't see some of them (hopefully, dependent on your browser). All characters on this line have a trailing space.
         4th line characters: Greater than symbol, less than symbol, left parenthesis bracket, right parenthesis bracket, left square bracket, right square bracket, left curly bracket, right curly bracket, colon, semicolon, tilde, left single quote mark, double quote mark, plus sign, minus sign (or dash), equals sign, period, comma, exclamation mark, question mark, slash, vertical bar, backslash, bullet, asterisk, ampersand, "at" sign, copyright symbol, trademark symbol, registered trademark symbol. Each of these special non-alphanumeric characters are in code to assure that you can copy and paste them correctly even if you can't see some of them (hopefully, dependent on your browser). All characters on this line have a trailing space.
         5th line characters: This is a simple short sentence which utilizes every lowercase character to show how the they interact with each other. It can also be effective when comparing fonts. Therefore, it is always the same line and reads, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
         6th line characters: A single space, included to assure you get everything when you copy.
         
      4. With the required font selected in Photoshop, and the font size set to 24, paste the copied lines into the your new Photoshop document (hold Ctrl and press V to Paste).
      5. You may not include any special effects in this image. Here, the font must stand on it's own.
      6. Trim all sides of unused white space to reduce the file size.
      7. Save this as "actualfontname_fontbrief.psd" where spaces which do appear in Photoshop's Font List are translated as underscores and unusual or illegal characters are ignored (ie: "arial_narrow_fontbrief.psd").
      8. Export (Save for Web) a 16 color GIF version using a selective palette.

Once you have all three images ready, attach them and an authorized copy of the font or the font distribution archive to: font-Journal@symbioticdesign.com

Please understand that Symbiotic Design™ must have a legal right to use the font in question commercially in order to legally display it, as this constitutes commercial use (whether we make a dime off of it or not).

Your email must also include the following information:

• Font Author (website or email link optional, but encouraged).*
• Font Publisher (website or email link optional, but encouraged), if any.
• Font Copyright Holder (website or email link optional, but encouraged).*
• The link to the official distributor of the font (where to get it; website or email link optional, but encouraged), and/or authorization for Symbiotic Design™ to distribute the font.*
• License Status (Commercial/Shareware/Giftware/Emailware/Demo/Freeware or Public Domain).*
  

Note: * = Required

Only Public Domain, Freeware, Emailware, Giftware, Shareware, and Demo fonts will be made available online for download unless the Copyright holder expressly gives us permission to make a licensed font available to the general public. Any licensed font which is found to come from anyone but the true Copyright holder will be taken off-line immediately. font-Journal™ reserves the right to add or delete fonts from the catalog at it's sole discretion.

We thank you in advance for your submission!
We will try to make this process easier in the future.
-Doug Peters, Creative Director, Symbiotic Design™

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