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- Hi!
-
- Middleton is a typeface designed for use on Macintosh computers running
- PostScript. The face was created using Fontographer 3.1 and is a hinted Type 1
- font completely compatible with Adobe Type Manager.
-
- Middleton is an unabashed knockoff of Florentine, a display face created by
- R. Hunter Middleton, the former director of type design for Ludlow. During his
- lifetime, Middleton created some 90 faces primarily for the advertising
- community, including the popular face Radiant.
-
- This font is being released as freeware to the typesetting community. However,
- it can only be uploaded onto electronic bulletin boards with my permission. On
- CompuServe, this font is exclusively found on the DTPFORUM -- under no
- circumstances is this font to be loaded onto any other CIS forum.
-
- Although a Type 1 font, Middleton does not utilize the standard Adobe encoding
- layout in order to include some very nice alternate characters. The following
- characters can be found on the font:
-
- Option 5 (alternate A)
- Shift Option = (alternate B)
- Option , (alternate E)
- Option . (alternate F)
- Option d (alternate M)
- Option w (alternate N)
- Shift Option p (alternate O)
- Option p (alternate P)
- Option b (alternate R)
- Option z (alternate S)
- Option u (alternate e)
- Option x (alternate o)
- Option j (alternate v)
-
- I also included an open ballot box under Shift-Option-2 just because I use them
- so frequently.
-
- Middleton is released in memory of Michael DeCrescente, the former general
- manager of Characters Typographical Services, Inc., who died of cancer in 1989.
- A contribution to the American Cancer Society is always appreciated.
-
- Notification of any problems with the font or requests for its upload on other
- bulletin boards can be made to:
-
- Jon Hodges
- 24-32 26th Street
- Astoria, NY 11102
- CIS #76276,3102
-
- Please be aware that I am still philosophically wrestling with the whole issue
- of font knockoffs, so grab the face now. If and when Florentine is released
- commercially, I may decide the pull the font off the boards.
-