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- Hi
-
- My name is Doug Olena. My wife and I have a Desktop Publishing company in
- Barton Vermont called Keystrokes. My interest in fonts goes back to some
- work I did on our Mac Plus in 1987 that I sold to UpTime Disk Magazine. I
- craved some fair market to develop software for and found I had too little
- talent programming.
-
- Typefaces always fascinated me and I decided to test the waters with a
- PostScript typeface called Dana Line. I sold it to DiskWorld Magazine for a
- fair return on my expenditures and decided that I needed to find some typeface
- artwork unavailable in electronic form. I believe I found an excellent
- collection of Alphabets of the Art Deco Tradition, called "Book of Art Deco
- Alphabets" published by Sterling/Main Street Press.The whole collection I have
- developed contains most of the alphabets in that book and many additional
- styles that are straightforwardly derivative from them.
-
- There are (at the moment) 40 typefaces derived from original artwork and an
- additional 25 typefaces which are variations on the original collection. This
- disk contains both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 versions of the alphabet I named
- Arwen after my first daughter. (There is an alphabet called EDEN in the book
- and Eden is my second daughter's name. Arwen was jealous that Eden had an
- alphabet named after her, so...)
-
- It is a fine example of the Art Deco Tradition. The clean lines and delicate
- symmetrical balance of the parts make for rich and interesting layouts. The
- names of the typefaces are either as they appear in the Book of Art Deco
- Alphabets by Sterling/Main Street Press or when I believed there would be a
- conflict with currently available typefaces, the names were trademarked or the
- names were not available in the book, I gave them names capriciously. Some
- names are representative of the Type, like Searsucker, while some are
- Germanic, like Hindenburg (much that is part of the Art Deco tradition comes
- from Germany and Europe.)
-
- For a few of them I have names of their designers: I know that Robert Hunter
- Middleton, an American designer for Ludlow Typograph Company of Chicago,
- designed Eden Light, Classic Sans Serif and Delphian Open Title; Rudolf Koch
- of the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach produced (in this collection,)
- Maximilian, Neuland and Zepplin; Adrian Frutiger working for Deberny & Peignot
- of Paris produced Bifur, a version of which is included in this collection as
- Shades. Some of the styles are relatively common in electronic form: Empire
- (designer: David Berlow?), FFD Broadway (Broadway, designer: M.F. Benton),
- FFD Huxley Vertical, FFD Koloss, FFD Neuland Inline.
-
- I do not have the resources to discover all the trivia about the type and the
- questions of origin and name. Those questions interest me, but I don't have
- time or the tenacity to do all the gumshoe work. There are resources, but I
- only have a few of them, none encyclopaedic.
-
- I am fascinated by the type itself, the geometry or lack of it, the style and
- sense of it. I have fallen in love with the variety of shapes possible from
- some 62+ basic letter shapes & punctuation. The Art Deco Tradition of the 20's
- & 30's and the revival of the art form in the late 60's & 70's (in the United
- States) have produced styles and characters unique to our machine age. Little
- of the Art Deco tradition serves well for body text, but most of it is great
- for headings and advertisements, newsletters and LOGO's.
-
- Enjoy
-
- ********************
- See the Flier for pricing or call the number below. The package comes with a
- font selection guide and your choice of Type 1 or TrueType versions for the
- Mac System 6.5 and up or PC, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 or OS/2 2.1 or above and
- TrueType for Windows NT.
-
- Feel free to distribute this software (Arwen, Fox and Burrito Fonts in either
- or both formats) as long as this ReadMe document is included. The collection
- is commercial software and is available now. If you use Arwen, Fox or Burrito
- and like them call me at:
-
- 205-871-8803
-
- If you want to order the package, use Master Card or VISA, or send a check or
- money order for the package and $3.00 for shipping and handling (in US Dollars
- or its equivalent) to:
-
- Keystrokes
- 222 Peerless Ave.
- Birmingham, AL 35209
-
- Internet address: dougolena@aol.com
- *********************
- INSTALLATION:
- ************************
- NOTE: These fonts are not designed to be used without Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
- or a TrueType rasterizer (included in System 7 for the Mac and MS Windows 3.1
- for the PC.) They will not look very good on screen and will print poorly on a
- dot matrix printer if you don't have ATM or A TrueType rasterizer. They will
- print well, however, if you wish to use a TrueType or PostScript printer. For
- additional cost I can include selected bitmap fonts for the Macintosh.
-
- *********************
-
- IBM PC or compatible running Windows
- A. Adobe Type 1 for Windows using ATM (Adobe Type Manager)
- B. Microsoft TrueType for Windows 3.1 and NT
- C. Microsoft TrueType for Windows 95
-
- ********************
-
- A. Using ATM in Windows 3.x.
- ò Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive.
- ò Open the ATM utility in Windows.
- ò Click on ADD...,
- ò Open the directory that contains the Arwen.* files and select "Arwen".
- ò Click on ADD
- ò Click on Exit
- ò Restart Windows
-
- B. Using TrueType in Windows 3.1.
- ò Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive.
- ò Open the Control Panel device in Windows 3.1 (or later)
- ò Double Click on Fonts
- ò Click on ADD...,
- ò Open the directory that contains the Arwen___.TTF file and select "Arwen Regular".
- ò Click "OK"
- ò Exit the Control Panel.
-
- C. Using TrueType for Windows 95
- ò Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive
- ò Open the Control Panel
- ò Double click on Fonts
- ò Go to File: Add fonts
- ò Select the correct disk drive and add the fonts.
-