Here I've used a 72 point Espy Sans Bold font in a New Photoshop file (aliased . . ., er, NON anti-aliased, umh, without the fuzzy pixel things) which I opened at 480 X 150 pixels at 72 pixels per inch. I removed the dot over the "i" and replaced it with a lens flare using the Render filter, and then, added a long-line mezzotint from the Pixelate filter menu to the background .

The drawing was converted to 4-bit indexed color and saved as a Compuserve GIF file and then converted to Interlaced GIF, 89a, with white as a transparent color. Try looking at this page with a gray background.

If you push your imagination a little, you can almost feel a sense of control come over you. You may not be able to call the body copy font or adjust the line breaks, but you can still nudge things in the right direction a bit.

ome to think of it, why couldn't you use a graphic right in with your body copy.