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Tofino Type [Mighty Pete] Tofino Type is located in Kelowna, BC, Canada. An earlier site, Pete's Oasis was run when Pete was in Yellowknife. Its designer, The Mighty Pete, describes himself as follows: The Mighty Pete is a graphic artist that's been doing computer graphic art for 30 years. His fonts and art have appeared in movies, on TV, in magazines all over the world and also in numerous commercial software packages as art elements. [...] Just to give you a idea of how long I've been making fonts for computers and how times have changed over the years my first collection of computer fonts was made in the early 80s for the Apple II computer. It was called The Arctic Ice Collection and consisted of about maybe 100 different fonts. In those days font editors did not exist. It was entirely written in binary directly on the surface of a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk. Remember those? You had to create a empty font file on a disk then with a binary editor change the bits in that empty file to create a full font with all the characters. Even the apple. We used to pride ourselves on how wild a different we could make the apple. It could take days to make a single character. You could not see the letters. It would be just a green screen of numbers. Later you got to finally see it and maybe go back and tweak them. His first font sold at MyFonts is the hyper-swashy calligraphic Albion Signature (2008) which contains over 2200 glyphs, flourishes and ornaments. The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008). When he started, he offered free fonts such as Extravagant Pete (2003), a gorgeous rococco font, as well as Extravagant Pete 3D, Fantastic Pete (medieval ornamental script---artwork below by Dora Ivette Torres), ComicPieces, GuiltyPieces, HollowPieces, MentalPieces, MetalPieces, MightyPieces, MoldyPieces, Pieces, PlainPieces, Scream In Pain, SillyPieces, SolidPieces, SorryPieces, StickyPieces, ThickPieces (2004). The commercial fonts also include Crown Jewels (2008, calligraphic ornamental typeface with 4,200 glyphs: this is the commercial version of Fantastic Pete) and Crown Jewels Flourishes (2008). 1001 Fonts link. Dafont link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Tofino Type [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Dafont page Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ The Canadian type scene ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ 3D fonts ⦿