Font Resource Directory (FRD)
Fonts plus Graphics, Utilities and Scanned Artwork
by Dick Estel

Dick created the ultimate resource for GEOS users to locate the font that would best suit their project when he created the Font Resource Directory (FRD). Dick started working on this in June 1989 as a way to catalog his collection of GEOS fonts. In 1996 Dick decided he had cataloged enough GEOS fonts. He had put out 14 supplements to the original FRD and he eventually cataloged over 1000 GEOS Fonts.

Dick's FRD Catalog is a true masterpiece. I have a 3 inch binder full of the printouts (over 500 pages) that Dick created to show the characters and point sizes in the fonts. Dick also presented a lot of useful information on the inner workings of GEOS fonts as well as listing sources for commercial and Public Domain fonts. In June of 2002 Dick told me he had no desire to make more copies of the FRD or to make it available again so anyone who had it in their possession could make it available however they wanted to. All of the printouts have been scanned and are now available on the CD in PDF files.

Of course, Dick also made the Public Domain fonts available on disk.

Over the years Dick also expanded from just offering Fonts to offering disks full of Graphics, Utilities, Scanned Art plus customized Calendar Templates for use in geoPaint.

I bought the FRD from Dick and also continued to buy the supplements. I bought a number of the font disks and some of his graphics disks. When I started to work on this CD I contacted Dick to see about buying the rest of the disks I did not have. Dick generously offered to send me whatever disks I needed to complete my set.

So, I owe a BIG Thank You to Dick Estel for all of the work he did to create the FRD and the accompanying disks as well as a BIG Thank You for his generosity in supplying the disks I did not have for this collection.

Follow the links below to get to the various sections of software that the CD holds from Dick Estel.

Fonts

Graphics

Utilities

Scanned Art

PDF version of FRD

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GEOS Font Collection

There are 22 disks below containing GEOS fonts plus one disk containing some FONT Utilities.

1. FRD Font Utility Disk

2. FRD Font Disk 1A

3. FRD Font Disk 1B

4. FRD Font Disk 2A

5. FRD Font Disk 2B

6. FRD Font Disk 3A

7. FRD Font Disk 3B

8. FRD Font Disk 4A

9. FRD Font Disk 4B

10. FRD Font Disk 5A

11. FRD Font Disk 5B

12. FRD Font Disk 6A

13. FRD Font Disk 6B

14. FRD Font Disk 7A

15. FRD Font Disk 7B

16. FRD Font Disk 8A

17. FRD Font Disk 8B

18. FRD Font Disk 9A

19. FRD Font Disk 9B

20. FRD Font Disk 10A

21. FRD Font Disk 10B

22. FRD Font Disk 11A

23. FRD Font Disk 11B

GEOS Graphics Collection

There are 40 disks below containing GEOS Graphics.

1. FRD Graphics Disk 1A

2. FRD Graphics Disk 1B

3. FRD Graphics Disk 2A

4. FRD Graphics Disk 2B

5. FRD Graphics Disk 3A

6. FRD Graphics Disk 3B

7. FRD Graphics Disk 4A

8. FRD Graphics Disk 4B

9. FRD Graphics Disk 5A

10. FRD Graphics Disk 5B

11. FRD Graphics Disk 6A

12. FRD Graphics Disk 6B

13. FRD Graphics Disk 7A

14. FRD Graphics Disk 7B

15. FRD Graphics Disk 8A

16. FRD Graphics Disk 8B

17. FRD Graphics Disk 9A

18. FRD Graphics Disk 9B

19. FRD Graphics Disk 10A

20. FRD Graphics Disk 10B

21. FRD Graphics Disk 11A

22. FRD Graphics Disk 11B

23. FRD Graphics Disk 12A

24. FRD Graphics Disk 12B

25. FRD Graphics Disk 13A

26. FRD Graphics Disk 13B

27. FRD Graphics Disk 14A

28. FRD Graphics Disk 14B

29. FRD Graphics Disk 15A

30. FRD Graphics Disk 15B

31. FRD Graphics Disk 16A

32. FRD Graphics Disk 16B

33. FRD Graphics Disk 17A

34. FRD Graphics Disk 17B

35. FRD Graphics Disk 18A

36. FRD Graphics Disk 18B

37. FRD Graphics Disk 19A

38. FRD Graphics Disk 19B

39. FRD Graphics Disk 20A

40. FRD Graphics Disk 20B

GEOS Utilities

There are 3 disks (D81 format) below with GEOS Utilities and 3 Special Disks with Calendars and Art (D64 format)

1. FRD Util A

2. FRD Util B

3. FRD Util C

4. Calendars

5. Special

6. RailRoad

Scanned Artwork

There are 7 disks (D81 format) below containing Scanned Art.

1. FRD SCAN A

2. FRD SCAN B

3. FRD SCAN C

4. FRD SCAN D

5. FRD SCAN E

6. FRD SCAN F

7. FRD SCAN G

PDF version of FRD

There are 14 PDF files on the CD containing the entire Font Resource Directory. Along with the FRD itself are the Fontastic Newsletters that Dick sent out with Supplements 6 – 14. In addition, another PDF contains Dick's FontMania! column from the GeoJournal newsletter (issues 8 – 14) from the GeoMetrix GEOS Users Group. Dick intended to release a package called The Final Fontier which was to have included the information from his FontMania! Columns and the Fontastic newsletters plus some other material. He never completed this project but it is all together here now. EnGEOy!

1. FRD Cover Page

2. FRD Intro

3. FRD Index

4. FRD Pages 1-68 (original release)

5. FRD Supplement Pages 1 – 70

6. FRD Supplement Pages 71 – 140

7. FRD Supplement Pages 141 – 210

8. FRD Supplement Pages 211 – 280

9. FRD Supplement Pages 281 – 350

10. FRD Supplement Pages 351 – 420

11. FRD Supplement Pages 421 – 490

12. FRD Supplement Pages 491 – 520

13. Fontastic Newsletters

14. FontMania! Columns