Author's note

Puzzler 2, designed by Duane Richard Haut II, is a free illustrated dingbat font built from intricate, hand-drawn picture fragments. Dense hatching, ragged tufts, and crisp geometric frames give the symbols a curious mix of organic texture and hard-edged structure.

Puzzles, surreal creatures, and visual riddles are the clearest territory for this set, making it useful in game graphics, children's activity books, and mystery-themed posters. The textured symbols can also become pieces of a larger illustration on merchandise, rather than serving only as conventional type.

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Character map

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
(C)1999 Duane Richard Haut II
Font family
Puzzler2
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Puzzler2
Full font name
Puzzler2
Name table version
Version 1.00
Postscript font name
Puzzler2
Manufacturer name
Dungeon Dingbat
Designer
Description
Puzzler2.ttf v1.00
(C)1999 Duane Richard Haut II
goatfish@tds.net
http://www.geocities.com/~dingbatdungeon
Distribution: Freeware

Puzzler fonts are not technically true fonts. Each character in the font is a piece of a larger picture. By typing the characters into a word processor, try to put the pieces in their correct order to make the picture as shown in the bitmap file which came zipped up with the font.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1999-03-21
Revision1
Glyph count27
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding restricted (not allowed!)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureOutlined
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchMonospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI