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Univers

A FIGlet banner design, 11 rows tall , by Normand Veilleux. In the generator.

Univers full specimen: its name and the characters it covers

The specimen is rendered from the held file itself by the same FIGlet parser the generator runs: the name line, then the characters the font actually covers.

FormatFIGlet (.flf)
AuthorNormand Veilleux
Date stated in commentsJanuary 12, 1994
Height11 rows
Files in the libraryUnivers.flf
Print directionLeft to right

Coverage

Complete: A-Z, a-z and 0-9 all carry ink.

Provenance

What the font's own header comments say, kept as written. Authorship and dates on this page come from this text and nowhere else.

Univers by Normand Veilleux <nveilleu@emr.ca>
figletized by Glenn Chappell <ggc@uiuc.edu> January 12, 1994
Date: 5 Mar 1994

Explanation of first line:
flf2 - "magic number" for file identification
a    - should always be `a', for now
$    - the "hardblank" -- prints as a blank, but can't be smushed
11   - height of a character
9    - height of a character, not including descenders
40   - max line length (excluding comment lines) + a fudge factor
32   - default smushmode for this font
14   - number of comment lines

Where it stands

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