Bifur pour le Mac

[rogwill@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Guillemette)]

Quelques abonnés de cette liste ont récemment parlé de Bifur et d'une
éventuelle numérisation. Elle a déjà été faite (tentée?), apparemment par
un Anglais, en juillet 90. C'est une PostScript Type 3 pour le Macintosh.
Elle est disponible sur une bonne vingtaine de sites FTP.
Par exemple celui-ci, en France:

ftp://cao-vlsi.ibp.fr/pub/ftp.ibp.fr/pub4/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/t
ype3/bifur.sit.hqx

Cordialement
Robert Guillemette
rogwill@xxxxxxxxxx


PS:
Bifur est accompagnée d'une manière de ReadMe que je me permets de copier
ici intégralement (ce n'est pas très long):

Design Notes

This font program produces an adaptation of A.M. Cassandre's
BIFUR. It is copyright (c) 1990 Quando. It may be freely
redistributed, but it may not be sold. The font contains a
set of uppercase characters, numerals and basic punctuation
symbols - the font is not as complete as I would like. I haven't
been able to find a copy of the BIFUR specimen book; i referred
to the Deberny & Peignot general specimen book, 1952,
a book on Cassandre's work, titled "Cassandre", and the
Cassandre Issue of Baseline, Letraset's typographic magazine.
Several people have asked me why no lower case has been
included. Cassandre never designed a lower case, and there
are several reasons why the font would not work well in lower
case - one of these reasons is the superior adaptability of
the capitals, and their resistance to deformation and reduction.
Here are some words with with Cassandre described his
typeface :

        "Bifur was designed for advertising. It was designed
        for a word, a single word ...

        (and)

        if Bifur looks unfamiliar and strange, it is not because
        I (Cassandre) have dressed it up eccentrically but
        because, in the midst of a fully clothed crowd it is
        naked."

I hope this describes what attracts me to this type form. It
is an advertising type, though it should not be thought of
as ornamented or decorative, but functional (in a sense).
It will probably not prove to be of great utility to the
non-advertising typographer, but I hope my rendition of
the face will find some use.

I hasten to add that by naming the face BIFUR, I make NO
CLAIM to having produced a definitive, or indeed even a
merely accurate representation of Cassandre's work.
My sole intention, as this seems to me to be the
first PostScript version, is to avoid the confusion that has
befallen faces whose names have been mercilessly trampled
upon. (I recently received a face named Futaru ... make
what you will of that). If there is general objection to this
approach, or an authentic PostScript version is ever produced,
I shall forthwith rename this version.

This font is PostScript Type 3, has a family ID of 9998 and
no UniqueID. The font is preset to print black and 25 percent
grey, which contains a reasonable amount of allowance for
dot gain at 300 dots/inch.  I have employed a 75 line/inch
screen (at 0 degrees) which is a reasonable approximation to
the fine lines of Bifur. I have not employed a line half-tone nor
have I endeavoured to rotate the halftone angle with the font -
this font therefore, works slightly better in rotations of 90
degrees. This font package contains bitmapped fonts at
48 and 72 point; for those with colour displays, there is a two
colour version of the font at 48 point. The font colours may
be altered by setting /FontColour1 and /FontColour2 in the
font directory.

I'd like to thank David Collier and the other folks at Decode
Design, London, for their invaluable assistance, without which,
well, this could not have been done.