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The RUSH Font Project is a collaboration between RUSH fans who have pooled their resources to compile a library of all available fonts used in the album art of RUSH.

The current Rushfonts collection contains fonts for the following RUSH related releases:

Rush, Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, 2112, All The World's A Stage, A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres (2 fonts), Rush Through Time, Permanent Waves (2 fonts), Moving Pictures, Exit...Stage Left (4 fonts), Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows (2 fonts), Hold Your Fire, (2 fonts), A Show Of Hands, Presto, Chronicles, Roll The Bones (3 fonts), Counterparts, test for echo (2 fonts), Different Stages, Vapor Trails (2 fonts), Spirit of Radio Greatest Hits, Rush In Rio, Feedback (2 fonts), R30 (2 fonts), Replay X 3, Snakes & Arrows, Snakes & Arrows Live, Retrospective 3, Time Machine Tour, Caravan, Clockwork Angels, Vapor Trails Remixed, R40 (2 fonts), R40 Live.

Also included in the font collection are fonts for the Rush member's solo projects including:

Victor, My Favorite Headache, A Work In Progress, Anatomy Of A Drum Solo, The Masked Rider (2 fonts), Ghost Rider and Roadshow.

• For installation help, click here.

  Windows Installation:

  For the cleanest installation we recommend downloading and unzipping the fonts to a temporary location of your choice and installing using your Windows Control Panel. On your Start Menu, go to Settings and open Control Panel. Click on the Fonts icon which will open the Fonts folder. Using the File pull-down menu, activate the Install New Font function. A dialogue box will open which requires you to browse for the font to be installed.

  You can also just drag the unzipped fonts to the c:\windows\fonts folder. The font "should" install automatically. After the font has been installed it will be available in any program that lets you choose a font. This method may require restarting Windows for the fonts to register.

  You can also unzip fonts directly into your c:\windows\fonts folder, but you'll have to open your fonts folder and refresh it. If all else fails, restart your machine!

  Macintosh Installation:

  The RUSH fonts collection is made up of a complete set of true type fonts which work equally well on both PC and Mac platforms. In fact, the My Favorite Headache font is a Mac system font. The non-truetype fonts included in this collection are .eot (embedded open type) which are not required on a Mac. To install the trutype fonts, first close all programs, unzip the file and paste the fonts into your font folder located at Macintosh HD > Library > Fonts.

  Linux Installation:

  To install rush fonts on Linux (Ubuntu and Mint) open a terminal window and type the following commands (no previous package download needed):

  wget http://www.2112.net/rushf onts/rushfonts.zip
  sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/rushfonts
  sudo unzip rushfonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts/truetype/rushfonts/
  cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/rushfonts/
  sudo mkfontdir
  cd ..
  sudo fc-cache

  Note, if you receive a message stating that a previous version of a RUSH font is already installed on your machine, we recommend deleting the old version and installing the new ones.

• RUSH webmasters, to easily embed Rush fonts in your webpages, click here.

  Websites can easily be formatted to display RUSH fonts using the Font Face tag, although Cascading Style Sheets are recommended. We recommend formatting using at least two fonts: for example; text formatted with <FONT FACE="PERMANENT WAVES, TIMES"> will display using Times if the Permanent Waves font is unavailable.

  With the advent of CSS3, it is now possible to easily link to fonts which are automatically activated when needed from your webpages by using the @font-face attibute. For example, by adding this text into your style sheet...

  @font-face { font-family: 'Syrinx'; src: url("fonts/Syrinx.eot"); /* EOT file for IE */ src: local('Syrinx'), url('fonts/Syrinx.ttf') format('truetype'); /* TTF file for CSS3 browsers */ }

  ...any class which references the "Syrinx" font-face will link to the actual font and it will appear correctly on the visitor's browser without requiring prior installation. [Note, "fonts" refers to a folder located in your website's root directory, which can be customized of course; if you want to same time, view this webpage's source code to see similar call-outs for every Rush font!]

  For more information and examples related to the @font-face attribute:

  • How to use CSS @font-face
  • The Potential of Web Typography: @font-face and Firefox 3.5
  • CSS3 Fonts @ W3C
  • Mozilla's @font-face Guide
  • Font Squirrel Font Converter

  Spread the word! Please post the banner found at the bottom of this page on your site, by linking back to the RUSH Font Project using this html code:

  <a href="http://www.2112.net/rushfonts" target="_blank"><img border="1" style="border-color: silver" src="http://www.2112.net/rushfonts/rfpbanner.gif" alt="Click here for the RUSH Font Project"></a>

• For a PDF demo of all availalbe fonts, click here.

The RUSH Font Project is a collaboration between Eric Hansen, Hank Niemczyk and Sami Mandelbaum, whose assistance in creating the RUSH fonts has been invaluable. Special thanks to Dave Ward, creator of the "Hemispheres" font.