This font is a steal... 'cause it's free! (hehe) The IRC Chat Font was developed for those of us who love to chat with others but are frustrated that our emotions are not adequately conveyed by those little icons we use to show facial expression. When you have this font, you can talk to your friends and really show them how you feel! These fun little characters you see have been placed into strategic locations on your keyboard! But you have to get the font first! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is how it works!!! First, you (and the person you are chatting with) must have this font loaded on your computer. You must then be able to change the fonts in your IRC windows. Sorry for the bad news, but if you don't have this capability, you will not be able to view the new font while you chat! For those poor unfortunate souls who do not have the font loaded, they will simply think you have lost your marbles and are typing jibberish! Not to worry though, remember, you can still use the old reliable icons to express yourself to others who do not have the IRC-Font on their systems! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download the Rob-ware! If you own a PC computer, download this Chatfont for Windows. This file is 62K zip file of the Truetype Font. I often receive email from people using Win95 that for some reason can't load the font. If this file doesn't seem to work, email me, and I will send you the file (no charge). I apologize for the inconvenience, but hey, I am a Mac guy. Which reminds me, be nice when you email me. If I get the typical "Macs stink!" email, I may not send you the font! ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, here is how to install the font on a PC with Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 (thanks to Walter Arnold who sent me email to tell me how easy it is): Open control panel (in start/settings), click the fonts icon. Select file/install new font, find and click on the file name. You can also use explorer, just drag the font into your fonts folder and it will install automatically. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you own a Macintosh computer, download this Chatfont for the Mac. This file is 51K Stuffit file. After unstuffing the file, just drag onto the System folder... your Mac will know where to put it. And it will be ready to use. There are a few things you need to know about the font... First, you can still use the old reliable icons to express yourself to others who do not have the IRC-Font on their systems! Second, because of that, you will need to memorize where these new icons are located! Here is where the faces can be found in the IRC Chat font! They are fairly easy to memorize once you begin using the font... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ` smiley face....(backward accent) ~ frown face....(tilde-- usually the Shift-accent key) % wink face....(percent sign-- usually the Shift-5 key) ^ fiend face....(asciicircum-- usually the Shift-6 key) * shades face.... (asterisk-- usually the Shift-8 key) | crying face.... (bar-- usually the Shift-backward slash key) \ surprise face....(backward slash) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One last thing... Please feel free to give this font to other folks, but also have them come here to see my website. I designed the font for fun and enjoyment, but it also serves to let people know who I am... It's my hope that by making this free font available, more people will see my work. After all, that's the main reason for having a Webpage in the first place, right! http://www.alphabytes.com/design