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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