Typestry is an abandonware

Abandonware

Abandonware are discontinued products for which no product support is available, or whose copyright ownership may be unclear for various reasons...

 3d software program released in the 1990s by Pixar

Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios, pronounced , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide...

 for Apple Macintosh and Windows-based PC computer systems. Unlike general purpose modeller

MODELLER

MODELLER is a computer program used in producing homology models of protein tertiary structures as well as quaternary structures . It implements a technique inspired by nuclear magnetic resonance known as satisfaction of spatial restraints, by which a set of geometrical criteria are used to create...

s and renderers, Typestry concentrated on rendering and animating text entered by the user in multiple font

Font

In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...

s. The fonts were extruded into three dimensions, with various bevel styles and textures applied during rendering. It was one of Pixar's only application software packages released on the open market. It was discontinued when Pixar chose to concentrate on film production instead of application development.http://www.typophile.com/node/6209. Glimpse is an abandonware

Abandonware

Abandonware are discontinued products for which no product support is available, or whose copyright ownership may be unclear for various reasons...

editor to modify looks, a resource used by Typestry.