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Steel

A TheDraw color font from 1994, carried by srg-0494.zip. Restored · in the generator.

Steel full specimen: its name and the characters it covers

The specimen is rendered from the held file itself : the name in the font's own cells and colors, then its full glyph set in file order.

TypeTheDraw color font (.TDF)
DesignerThe Phixxx, Evil Geniuses
Name inside the fileSteel
Glyphs94 in the file
Sightings1 pack (srg-0494.zip)
Pack years1994
StateRestored · in the generator

Glyph set

The file holds 94 glyphs. In code order:

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Provenance

Found in the art-pack census of the full archive (main/srg-0494.zip :: STEEL.TDF). The census extracted every .TDF in the 4,019-pack archive; this design's file is held byte-identical to its pack copy , and its restoration was verified against that copy.

The font credits itself: a credit line drawn into its @ glyph reads 'Steel Font by The Phixxx of Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow'. It circulated in Surge's first pack (April 1994); The Phixxx is not among the members named in that pack's info file, so the font appears to be a guest contribution.

Where it stands

This design is a live style in the ASCII generator.
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font.lol has restored this font as a TrueType font (a color font, cell colors intact), and the build passed the FontBakery gate. Release pending: the restoration is submitted to FontSpace and not yet published, so there is no download link yet.

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