Format

Bitstream Speedo Fonts

Summary

Name: Bitstream Speedo Fonts
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/1569
Format type: Font
Description: The Speedo fonts are a type of scalable font, created by Bitstream, Inc. The font was widely used in the disk operating system (DOS) era of computers, but has since became obsolete and is not used by any current software. Speedo was used on Atari ST, Falcon, in the XyWrite word processor, and in very early versions of WordPerfect and Microsoft Windows. It was then replaced by more popular font types like Type 1 fonts. Before Speedo was considered obsolete it was supported by the X Window System through the speedo module, and most Linux distributions had a Speedo font package, but support was removed from X in the X11R7.0 release in 2005. Speedo fonts include large international character set (over six hundred characters) and they are able to adapt their "pixels", "points", "horiz", "vert", and "avgwidth" XLFD values to match whatever value is requested by the X server.
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Speedo_Fonts http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Speedo http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/speedo.html http://www.netsweng.com/~anderson/talks/xclass/fonts.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091108153822/http://www.bitstream.com/fonts/support/speedo_fonts.html
File extensions: spd
Submitted by: The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Description: BOF; Offset: 100-300; Magic bytes: 'Copyright 1989-1991 by Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved'
Provenance: 11/2023 (v.115)- Max-offset modified for BOF signature to allow for more exact signature identification. Internally researched.

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 100
Max offset: 200
Byte Sequence: 436F7079726967687420313938392D313939312062792042697473747265616D20496E632E20416C6C207269676874732072657365727665642E
Endianness: None