Font
Resource Directory (FRD)
Fonts plus
Graphics, Utilities and Scanned Artwork
by
Dick Estel
Dick created the ultimate resource for GEOS users to locate the font that would best suit their project when he created the Font Resource Directory (FRD). Dick started working on this in June 1989 as a way to catalog his collection of GEOS fonts. In 1996 Dick decided he had cataloged enough GEOS fonts. He had put out 14 supplements to the original FRD and he eventually cataloged over 1000 GEOS Fonts.
Dick's FRD Catalog is a true masterpiece. I have a 3 inch binder full of the printouts (over 500 pages) that Dick created to show the characters and point sizes in the fonts. Dick also presented a lot of useful information on the inner workings of GEOS fonts as well as listing sources for commercial and Public Domain fonts. In June of 2002 Dick told me he had no desire to make more copies of the FRD or to make it available again so anyone who had it in their possession could make it available however they wanted to. All of the printouts have been scanned and are now available on the CD in PDF files.
Of course, Dick also made the Public Domain fonts available on disk.
Over the years Dick also expanded from just offering Fonts to offering disks full of Graphics, Utilities, Scanned Art plus customized Calendar Templates for use in geoPaint.
I bought the FRD from Dick and also continued to buy the supplements. I bought a number of the font disks and some of his graphics disks. When I started to work on this CD I contacted Dick to see about buying the rest of the disks I did not have. Dick generously offered to send me whatever disks I needed to complete my set.
So, I owe a BIG Thank You to Dick Estel for all of the work he did to create the FRD and the accompanying disks as well as a BIG Thank You for his generosity in supplying the disks I did not have for this collection.
Follow the links below to get to the various sections of software that the CD holds from Dick Estel.
GEOS Font Collection
There are 22 disks below containing GEOS fonts plus one disk containing some FONT Utilities.
GEOS Graphics Collection
There are 40 disks below containing GEOS Graphics.
GEOS Utilities
There are 3 disks (D81 format) below with GEOS Utilities and 3 Special Disks with Calendars and Art (D64 format)
Scanned Artwork
There are 7 disks (D81 format) below containing Scanned Art.
PDF version of FRD
There are 14 PDF files on the CD containing the entire Font Resource Directory. Along with the FRD itself are the Fontastic Newsletters that Dick sent out with Supplements 6 – 14. In addition, another PDF contains Dick's FontMania! column from the GeoJournal newsletter (issues 8 – 14) from the GeoMetrix GEOS Users Group. Dick intended to release a package called The Final Fontier which was to have included the information from his FontMania! Columns and the Fontastic newsletters plus some other material. He never completed this project but it is all together here now. EnGEOy!
FRD Pages 1-68 (original release)