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What happened to Handwriting - Dakota

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smurray

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May 12, 2008
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Ok, so I've been using a font called Handwriting - Dakota to make logos for my churches website. Well I reformatted my macbook today and for some reason the font is not on the laptop anymore. I know I never installed any extra fonts on my own, so I can't figure out where the font came from previously if it didn't come with OS X. I've done some searching and people seem to say that it does indeed come with OS X, but I assure you it is not on my laptop. Anyone have any idea why it wouldn't have installed when I reformatted? And yes I did make sure to choose to have the additional fonts installed in the customize option during the install process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Indeed Handwriting - Dakota ships with MacOS X. It was developed by in 1995 by vLetter and since 2001 has been copyrighted by Apple. On my computer, it is date-stamped "June 15, 2006." Perhaps, it is on the System Restore disc that shipped with your computer.
 
Please!

Stop using that font! It is ugly, difficult to read and a mockery to all skilled designers everywhere. I have no idea who originally thought it was a readable font, but they should have their head examined!
If you need a free font please just use your Google search box and ask for them, there are tons to choose from and offer a much better choice than that horrible Dakota handwriting!

Thank you kindly
 
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thejadedmonkey said:
For what it's worth on a 3+ year old thread, I have the adobe suite, office, and Leopard installed, and I don't have it.
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That's a relief.
 
Resurrecting this thread. I'm looking for this font so please share if you have it. Thank you
 
Dakota Handwriting Font Available Here

vLetter created and owns all rights to the Dakota handwriting font. We licensed it to Apple and also for the ClickArt collection.

It was also among hundreds of our fonts stolen in the 1990's by Michael Charness at Weatherly Systems which he renamed and sold as his own to IMSI, Softkey, and Expert Software. He also forged many other fonts created by dozens of other font designers, too. Charness hurt a lot of people.

Obviously, since it's a handwriting font, it's supposed to look like real handwriting and not like an "engineered" font. We've updated Dakota with Unicode and accented characters, and it's available for free here:

http://www.vletter.com/downloads/dakota-font-download-free.html
 
vLetter said:
vLetter created and owns all rights to the Dakota handwriting font. We licensed it to Apple and also for the ClickArt collection.

It was also among hundreds of our fonts stolen in the 1990's by Michael Charness at Weatherly Systems which he renamed and sold as his own to IMSI, Softkey, and Expert Software. He also forged many other fonts created by dozens of other font designers, too. Charness hurt a lot of people.

Obviously, since it's a handwriting font, it's supposed to look like real handwriting and not like an "engineered" font. We've updated Dakota with Unicode and accented characters, and it's available for free here:

http://www.vletter.com/downloads/dakota-font-download-free.html
Click to expand...

thank you!
 
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