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- Notes :
-
- Here is a collection of ornaments, which go along rather nicely
- with Adobe's Wood Type Package. There isn't much to say
- about this font - all of the characters were digitized from an
- enlarged photocopy of Roy Kelly's American Wood Types,
- and most of ornaments, flourishes and pointers come from
- Hamilton's 1906 catalogue, which original I have never
- seen. Interestingly enough, most of the Adobe Type can be
- found in Kelly's book, a not surprising fact since American
- Wood Type is the wood type bible, nearly by itself sparking
- a revival of interest (and types) in Wood Type. Also, Kelly
- wrote an introduction for Adobe, and methinks acted as
- a consultant of sorts as well. To be fair to Adobe, the types
- seem to deserve the label "Original", not only because of the
- quality of digitization, which is high, but also because the
- Adobe design staff created characters never previously
- included with the face. At any rate, most of the characters
- here don't appear in Adobe's Package (which was part of
- the reason why this font exists at all), and though some of
- the curves in the font are less than entirely satisfactory
- (which font having been coughed up over a week last month),
- I hope it will be of some use.
-
- Nigel Yeoh
- zdtl123 @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.ash
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-
- August 1990
-
- Credits:
- I'd like to thank David Collier and the other folks at Decode
- Design, 1 Ashland House, Ashland Place, London, for absolutely
- invaluable spiritual guidance. May Jolt Cola never appear in
- any of his videos.