I had already started a website to offer ready-to-cut custom designs to the sign industry, but that wasn't going anywhere. I imported letters that I had drawn by hand and soon had created my first font: CD Esoteric. The program was crude, but perfect for a novice user because of it's simplicity. Since I'd been interested in creating a font for some time, I rescued the disk from the trash and put it into my Mac in the office. I couldn't help but notice one of the floppy disks said "FontMonger". “One day I noticed one of the employees cleaning out a storage room and throwing old software into a large trash bin. Having worked as a sign painter for many years, he switched gears in 1998 and began working as a graphic designer for Boeing. “Letterhead Fonts began quite by accident,” Chuck says. “Those letters must work together harmoniously to add something to your design.” “A font is so much more than just beautiful letters,” Letterhead’s founder and president Chuck Davis says.
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