Witch Hunt in Denmark

Interesting what your morning mail can bring.

One of my small sidelights and hobbies is fontography. As with many small sidelights, I went wild with it a few years ago, and designed two fonts, Witch Hunt and Death Dance. I put them up and offered them as shareware, hardly hearing a word about them and no money attached...until this morning.

I was contacted by Bonnier Publications, a Danish publisher, who would like to make use of Witch Hunt for their History magazine. They also asked if I could make three Danish characters: the AE, the O with the slash through it, and the A with a circle on top.

My font programs are packed away two hard drives ago, so I thought quickly and then called up David Nalle at the Scriptorium (www.fontcraft.com) and found that he was not only willing to make the additional characters for Bonnier, but was interested in carrying my fonts on his website and would clean and spiff them up to current fontography standards. Witch Hunt will likely be broken into one set for the font and one for the elaborate glyphs, with them sold as a set, but all this sounds good, and likely something similar with Death Dance.

This is all very cool.