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- The printer's flowers (fleurons) contained in these Fontographer v3.3 files
- are modeled on those found in John Ryder's "A Suite of Fleurons" (Charles
- T. Branford, Boston, Massachusetts, 1957). Many of the flowers date from
- the 18th century.
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- This typeface of fleurons contains the greater majority of those found in
- Ryder's book. I have generated them in sizes from 10- to 36-points. These
- flowers should not, with only a few exceptions, be used at more than
- 72-points.
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- This new edition (v1.6, 15 July 91) contains a number of new "flowers." In
- "Ars Typographica" (Vol 11, no. 1) I found some flowers that were in the
- style of the originals in this collection (in the lowercase positions).
- From Bruce Rogers' "Paragraphs on Printing" I found a number of simple but
- extremely useful ornaments: these are, for the most part, located in the
- numbers and SHIFT-numbers positions. The Kingsport Press catalogue
- (supplement #1) also contained a number of useful flowers. Some
- fleurs-de-lis round-out what should be an interesting and useful
- collection.
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- Two of the flowers created PostScript errors (error: limitcheck; offending
- command: awidthshow). These, therefore had to be simplified. I did this by
- splitting the characters up. The component parts of the two characters can
- now be found in 'D' and 'K', and 'M', 'N' and 'O'. This turns out to be a
- blessing in disguise: the pieces can be used as independent ornaments.
- Further, I have kerned these characters in such a way that they overprint,
- thus creating the entire fleuron.
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- Some can be used "as-is". Others are meant to be copied and reflected in a
- program like Freehand or Illustrator. NB: USE REFLECTION & *NOT* ROTATION
- to achieve the patterns you want.
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- Have fun.
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- Stephen Moye (CIS 76416,1542)
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- Providence, Rhode Island
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