Updated 21/11/09
All sorts of QL fonts available for download, including QL system character fonts, Line Design/Proforma/Prowess fonts and miscellaneous fonts for packages like Page Designer 2 and 3 for example.
Fonts for use with QDOS/SMSQ as system fonts. Unless otherwise specified, these fonts are installed via the CHAR_USE extension in Toolkit 2, or other equivalent means of using new system fonts.
Miscellaneous collections of QL fonts, suitable for use with BASIC via the CHAR_USE command or equivalent, and suitable for use with many QL art and publishing programs such as Page Designer 2 or 3, for example.
QL Fonts 1 (34K) - a collection of QL fonts
from the Page Designer packages
QL Fonts 2 (27K) - a collection of 8-pixel
wide QL fonts from the Page Designer packages
QL Fonts 3 (4K) - a small collection of QL
fonts
QL Fonts 4 (32K) - another collection of
assorted QL fonts
IBM Fonts (7K) - a small collection of IBM character set fonts for the QL. Includes line and block graphics, based on PC8 set.
A font for QDOS which provides the Euro currency symbol at CHR$(181)
like the SMSQ/E fonts. CHR$(181) is accessed with CTRL SHIFT u on a U.K.
keyboard, for example.
Eurofont.zip (3K)
An eight disk pack of fonts converted from freeware Adobe Type 1 compatible fonts with the Pfb2Pff package from Progs. Suitable for use with Line Design, Proforma, Prowess etc. The eight disks may be separately downloaded as required. May be used alone or all together.
Font Pack 1, disk 1 (402K)
Font Pack 1, disk 2 (421K)
Font Pack 1, disk 3 (373K)
Font Pack 1, disk 4 (402K)
Font Pack 1, disk 5 (383K)
Font Pack 1, disk 6 (407K)
Font Pack 1, disk 7 (407K)
Font Pack 1, disk 8 (359K)
Font Pack 1 description text file (4K)
A one disk set of fonts for use with Line Design, Proforma, Prowess etc.
Font Pack 2 (363K)
A small collection of fonts of Celtic-appearance for Line Design,
Proforma, Prowess etc.
Font Pack 3 (81K)
Two font families by Phoebus R. Dokos for use with Line Design,
Proforma, Prowess etc, both fonts having Euro currency symbols accessed
either via the \paragraph\ entity, or with CTRL SHIFT u on U.K. keyboards.
Guardian.zip (58K) - a family of Guardian
serifed fonts (normal, bold, italic, bold-italic)
SuisseLatin.zip (52K) - a family of
non-serifed SuisseLatin fonts
Two freeware fonts for the Professional Publisher program from Digital
Precision.
ppf2526.zip (6K)
Two HDF fonts for Professional Publisher and Page Designer 3 (note: not
suitable for earlier versions of Page Designer unfortunately), designed to
look like the fonts Sinclair used on their QL products in the mid 1980s,
the HDF fonts are from Ralf Reköndt.
sincfonts.zip (3KB)
A small collection of screen display fonts (_f87 files) for use with the
Text 87 word processor
text87a.zip (7K)
Another collection of screen display fonts (_f87 files) for use with the
Text 87 word processor
text87b.zip (26K)
Some font viewing and editing software.
A pointer driven font viewer program for QL fonts. Needs pointer
environment and Toolkit 2. Can view both ordinary 5-pixel wide QL
character founts and 8-pixel wide ("fat") founts which can only
be used in CSIZE 1,0 in mode 4. A few sample fonts included.
Download Font Viewer (49K)
A pointer driven font editor for QL fonts (including Minerva fonts) by
Oliver Fink.
Download Font Editor (63K)
A pointer driven font editor for QL fonts. Requires expanded memory,
Toolkit 2 and Window Manager 2 (either SMSQ/E 3.00 or later, or QDOS with
pointer environment version 2 or later). Can handle wide (8x9) fonts as
well as standard 5x9 in any character range. Facilities to make bold and
italic fonts, copy characters, merge fonts and so on. Several example
fonts supplied. (D. Jones) [21/11/09]
download fonted2.zip (64K)
Allows you to use alternative fonts instead of the High/Low fonts in
Quill.
quillfnt.zip (14K)
Rich Mellor extension for installing new fonts. 2 sample fonts included,
called italics_fnt and bold_fnt. Assembler sources for the extension
included.
font.zip (8K)
One of the earliest vector fonts system for the QL.
bgi.zip (81K)
A program to create and download fonts to printers with suitable
download font buffers.
nlq.zip (83K)