Some references to Fancy Font:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=502  - Fancy Font enabled built in Epson FX / MX 80 printer to produce almost true type output (but the screen just showed a bunch of formatting code inserted between text.
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-December/054578.html - Fancy font was a wonderful program, I wrote and formatted an 80+ page book Programming Autocad in the early 80's using it running on an SD systems S100 Z80 system running MP/M before moving to  a 5 slot PC.

•          I processed the text using WordStar and put in

•          commands VERY similar to HTML to output text to an

•          FX-80 F/T Printer with a program called Fancy Font...
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Computer
  Is Fancy Font a worthwhile program? There is no. question that it can enhance the quality of output. of the low-end dot-matrix printers. The program it- ...
  www.springerlink.com/index/K387R17P432XM724.pdf

Phonetic Character Sets: Printing, Sorting and Computing

EPSON MX80™ dot matrix printer with software tools. developed by SoftCraft (The Fancy Font™ System). The system makes use of font specifications created by ... llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/1/3/163.pdf

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-049X(198706)131%3A2%3C197%3ACH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 - Computer generated hieroglyphs - the very reputable Fancy Font (SoftCraft, Inc., Madison, http://www.nelsonit.net/~jon/info-cpm/1982/09/06/090300.html - Date   : Mon, 06 Sep 1982 0903-:00PDT - the Fancy Font software package from Pacific Software is very

   interesting.  I have some brochures and print samples about this

   product and I'm impressed.  Apparently, Fancy Font and an Epson

   printer with Graptrax can together print a number of fonts

   in a number of sizes with several variations in facing (e.g.

   regular, bold, italic, etc.).  The "News Release" from Pacific

   software sort of implies that all samples were printed unreduced

   (i.e. the samples were copies of pages which came "straight from the

   presses").  During a phone conversation with Mr. Overman of

   Pacific Software, I believe he said that the "News Release" itself

   had been reduced.  Well, that's probably just a nit.  The package

   can certainly produce beautiful pages using multiple fonts.

   Don't expect to produce voluminous documents in breathtakingly

   exciting olde english font however.  Print speed is advertised

   as about 6 lines per minute. 

 
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http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/font.html

 
 
Lehmann, P. F. "Putting Together a Poster Fast: Fancy Font and Sign
Designer." Binary: The tfewsletter of the Society for General Microbiology
Computer Club. 1:10 (1987), pp. 18-19.   -  http://comppile.tamucc.edu/RWPN/rwpn6.5pp11-20.pdf

November 26, 1991 - http://www.skepticfiles.org/md001/visiongu.htm
   PRODUCT: FANCY FONT
    VENDOR: Softcraft Inc.
            16 North Carroll St. - Suite 500
            Madison, WI 53703
            (800) 351-0500 ÿ (608) 257-3300
 
   PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  Fancy Font provides for magnification of printing.
   Characters up to one inch by inch can be created from ASCII files.