HaydenPanettiereBats demo © 2007 by bobistheowl for Metaphase Brothel Graphix.

This font is freeware. Please feel free to have fun with it, and use it for any purpose you'd like. The only thing you can't do is claim the work as your own. This font was made with MS Paint and ScanFont 3.12. If you like it, please let me know at bobistheowl@hotmail.com. A larger version of this font will be completed soon. Look for it where you found this one. For other bobistheowl fonts from Metaphase Brothel Graphix, please visit our homepage on Luc Devroye's site: http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/bobistheowl.html

New fonts will appear there on a regular basis. If you have a webpage with downloadable fonts, please feel free to include this one, or any of the other bobistheowl fonts, among your available downloads. I would appreciate it if this read me document was included, but the character guide is optional.

Hayden Panettiere is best known as the indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes. Although just eighteen years old, she has worked consistently in television and feature films since the age of seven, as well as having appeared in numerous commercials since she was eleven months old.

Hayden's first major prime time television exposure was a recurring role as Maddie Harrington on the almost unwatchable final season of Ally McBeal. In addition to two stints on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she had four memorable guest starring roles as the scheming Jessica on Malcolm in the Middle. She made several forgettable films for Disney in her early teens, and provided the voice for Princess Dot in the film A Bug's Life.

The original version of HaydenPanettiereBats was my first font, and was a major disappointment to me. There was too much detail to reproduce in glyphs 1.33 inches high. Many of the glyphs were severely distorted, and only a few came out well. The first revision was an improvement, but still not very good. I don't make those early versions of this font available for download anymore, but if you're really interested in the evolution of my creative process from August, 2007 to present, ask me by e-mail, and you can have the original font, version 1.1, or copies of the monochrome bitmaps used for any of the versions to date.

This font included some experimentation with various shades obtained through saving full colour photographs in 16 colour bitmap form, and various techniques to convert them to monochrome bitmaps 2.9 inches high, (280 pixels). This sort of font is very labour intensive, and very frustrating. When creating font glyphs based on photographs, single pixels of black or white can make noticeable differences when imported into a font making program. I spent many hours working on several detailed glyphs with extensive shading, only to find that the memory limits of ScanFont were exceeded. ScanFont likes pure black and white areas, and has a hard time reproducing grey scales created through shaded patterns. each character glyph in this font has an average size of about 43 kb, which is larger than many fonts that have a complete upper and lower case alphabet set. In one of the test versions, a single glyph clocked in at 75 kb!

I've been working on revisions to this font off and on for the past few months, frequently dropping it altogether for a while to work on other projects which have since been completed, or will soon be. It is my intension to also upgrade my second and third fonts, LaetitaBats 1&2, in the near future, with larger sized glyphs. Unfortunately, the size of my font files, (between 1.3 and 2.0 MB on many of them), makes it difficult to find font download sites which will host them, as bandwidth limitations often set a maximum file size limit considerably below that a bobistheowl font, (one site expressed interest in my work, but told me they could not upload archives larger than 200 kb). For the time being, our homepage on Luc's site, and eMule, are the only places where you can find the Metaphase Brothel Graphix' font collection.

Other Fonts by bobistheowl for Metaphase Brothel Graphix:

LaetitiaBats1 & LaetitiaBats2
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass1 & Through the Looking Glass2
Gypsy Tarot-Major Arcana
Gypsy Tarot-Minor Arcana & Gypsy Tarot-Minor Arcana Inverted
Apoux
KleinKarpets

Upcoming projects in the works include a series of fonts based on the art of Frank Frazetta, a snakes font, and more KleinKarpets.

Thanks for downloading this. I hope it was worth the bandwidth and disk space.

~bobistheowl