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- Read Me--``Benjamin'' Type 1 PostScript display font
-
- Benjamin is based on ``Ben Franklin,'' a nineteenth-century
- wood-type face that imitates eighteenth-century hand-set
- type, as in ``Poor Richard's Almanack'' (yes, I guess they
- were nostalgic a hundred years ago too). It's deliberately
- rough and whimsical--sort of a cross between Windsor and
- Caslon Antique, if you know those two typefaces. I found the
- original in ``Wood Type Alphabets: 100 Fonts,'' edited by
- Rob Roy Kelly and published by Dover in 1977 (I recommend it
- if you're interested in this stuff). Kelly's collection of
- wood type inspired Adobe's two ``Wood Type'' collections,
- but this font isn't in either of them. I scanned ``Ben
- Franklin'' and made a Type 1 font of it with Altsys'
- Fontographer 3.1. I made a few alterations to the original
- typeface, as well as created a number of necessary
- characters missing from the book--the percent sign, the
- parentheses, the number 2, and a few others. I also gave it
- over 100 kerning pairs. This font is most definitely a
- display face that looks best in small amounts and at 18
- points and larger. There's only a 24-point bitmap; I assume
- that if you're into fonts you use Adobe Type Manager.
-
- Since it seems that most shareware font-makers never make
- much money from their fonts anyway, and since I did most of
- the work on this font when I was too sick to go to work but
- well enough to sit huddled at my Mac, sniffling and coughing
- (which also may explain why the font looks like it does),
- it's freeware. Enjoy it. I do, however, REQUIRE that anyone
- who distributes this set of files keep this ``Read Me''
- message with the font, and that anyone who is not a users
- group and sells it on a disk (floppy, CD-ROM, or whatever)
- send me a free copy of that disk as well. Thanks, or as we
- font people say, 10-Q!
-
- Walter Kafton-Minkel
- c/o Portland Macintosh Users Group
- PO Box 8949
- Portland, OR 97207-8949
-