Originally designed by Ray Larabie inspired by the use of
Pinto Flare for The Price is
Right, and made available in or before January 1998
[archive]
in a single black weight. Updated in March 1999 [font info v2],
with alternates only for ‘LQR’, and a dollar sign as seen in the TV
show’s logo. Updated in 2001 and 2004 [font info v3.2], now with
alternates for most letters. In 2000, two versions with distorted
letterforms were released as part of the
Larabie Fonts Ink Deluxe font package, Pricedown
Ink and Pricedown Gaunt (discontinued).
In 2009, with Larabie’s permission, Roger S. Nelsson made a
version with a multilingual and expanded character set as Pricedown More…
Originally designed by Ray Larabie inspired by the use of Pinto Flare for The Price is Right, and made available in or before January 1998 [archive] in a single black weight. Updated in March 1999 [font info v2], with alternates only for ‘LQR’, and a dollar sign as seen in the TV show’s logo. Updated in 2001 and 2004 [font info v3.2], now with alternates for most letters. In 2000, two versions with distorted letterforms were released as part of the Larabie Fonts Ink Deluxe font package, Pricedown Ink and Pricedown Gaunt (discontinued).
In 2009, with Larabie’s permission, Roger S. Nelsson made a version with a multilingual and expanded character set as Pricedown Pro (CheapProFonts).
In 2013, Larabie himself released a rebuilt and improved version, expanded to nine weights, with numerous alternates and ligatures, and a character set that supports Latin (incl. Vietnamese), Greek, and Cyrillic.
