Syndicate 1
A TheDraw color font from 1994, carried by eod-ap02.zip. Restored · in the generator.
Glyph set
The file holds 74 glyphs. In code order:
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A naming quirk
The file name and the name inside the file disagree. This design travels in eod-ap02.zip as FONT1.TDF, but the name recorded inside the file is 'syndicate2'. font.lol's restoration batch named the pair by file order, so the restoration of FONT1.TDF is Syndicate 1 and the restoration of FONT2.TDF is Syndicate 2, the reverse of the internal names.
Provenance
Found in the art-pack census of the full archive (main/eod-ap02.zip :: FONT1.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.
One of two TheDraw fonts in Empire of Darkness's Ansi Pack #2 (July 13, 1994). The pack's info file says the fonts are from The Syndicate, the group's ANSI artist, and asks anyone reusing them to keep that credit. Naming note: this file, FONT1.TDF, is internally named 'syndicate2', while FONT2.TDF is internally named 'syndicate1'; the restored family names follow the file order.
Where it stands
This design is a live style in the ASCII generator.
Use it in the ASCII generator
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.