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Syndicate 2

A TheDraw color font from 1994, carried by eod-ap02.zip. Restored · in the generator.

Syndicate 2 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 Syndicate, Empire of Darkness
Name inside the filesyndicate1
Glyphs74 in the file
Sightings1 pack (eod-ap02.zip)
Pack years1994
StateRestored · in the generator

Glyph set

The file holds 74 glyphs. In code order:

!"'()+-.0123456789:;ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}

A naming quirk

The file name and the name inside the file disagree. This design travels in eod-ap02.zip as FONT2.TDF, but the name recorded inside the file is 'syndicate1'. 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 :: FONT2.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, FONT2.TDF, is internally named 'syndicate1', while FONT1.TDF is internally named 'syndicate2'; 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.

font.lol showcases this font for reference and does not distribute the file.