Bay Fonts (or: Bay Soft, or: Bay Animation, Inc.)

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Bay Fonts (or: Bay Soft, or: Bay Animation, Inc.) [Charles Biddle] BaySoft or BayFonts (was: Bay Animation Inc) is a font vendor from Annapolis, MD. Charles Biddle established Bay Animation Inc there in 1994. They claim to have 8000 fonts, but clearly, these are mostly renamed fonts. I can not believe that they till operate. Interestingly, according to Ulrich Stiehl, Charles Biddle built up his collection with the help of Hans Fremuth, who had a similar collection marketed in Germany, called Profi-Schriften Business (Kelly Media). Still according to Stiehl, the majority of the Bay Animation fonts are doctored copies of Bitstream fonts (which in turn were knock-offs of Linotype fonts). The italics are merely awful computer-generated slants of romans, and thus, the collection is sub-par. Examples of equivalences include Joss Normal (a copy of Freehand 575 (Bitstream)) and Fusi Normal (a copy of Futura Std Medium).	EXTERNAL LINKS Bay Fonts (or: Bay Soft, or: Bay Animation, Inc.) MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Font vendors ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type scene in Maryland ⦿

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