Dean Morris designed Quicksilver at age 16 while in
high school and submitted it to Letraset, who finished the character set and released
it in 1976. His original name for the font was Polished
Sausage, but the company didn’t go for that. The display
face is reminiscent of neon tube lettering, but was actually
meant to look
like bent thermometers. Alts for ‘C’ and ‘S’. See the
designer’s own collection of
uses.
There is no official digital version yet. Unauthorized
digitizations include OPTI Quicky (Castcraft,
1990–1991, w/ poorly spaced numerals), the limited and poorly
spaced Quantum (Corel, 1992; copied by Allen R. Walden
as Neon Lights, 1993), Twizzler
(Silver
Graphics, 1993, w/ faux small More…
Dean Morris designed Quicksilver at age 16 while in high school and submitted it to Letraset, who finished the character set and released it in 1976. His original name for the font was Polished Sausage, but the company didn’t go for that. The display face is reminiscent of neon tube lettering, but was actually meant to look like bent thermometers. Alts for ‘C’ and ‘S’. See the designer’s own collection of uses.
There is no official digital version yet. Unauthorized digitizations include OPTI Quicky (Castcraft, 1990–1991, w/ poorly spaced numerals), the limited and poorly spaced Quantum (Corel, 1992; copied by Allen R. Walden as Neon Lights, 1993), Twizzler (Silver Graphics, 1993, w/ faux small caps), Quotidien (NovelFonts, 1994, auto-traced from Quicky?), and Tight (Ray Larabie, 2007), an antiqued version with a range of ligatures.
