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- I first saw Graphic Light back in the middle Seventies when the Baltimore
- Type Foundry was closing down and selling off its remaining stock of
- metal types. I liked it, but I don╒t clearly know why. Maybe it was its unusual
- ╥ft╙ ligature, maybe the small x-height. I bought lots of it, in several sizes,
- and even set a few small pamphlets in it.
-
- When Macintosh came along, Graphic Light was one of countless typographical
- treasures that I was no longer able to use. So, since no big company is likely
- to reproduce it, and since Fontographer 3.0 makes the work so easy, I have
- done it myself. It is a Christmas gift to any and all from The Underground
- Grammarian.
-
- I have included the Fontographer outline file so that you can do things to it,
- but do be respectful. You may, for instance, want to add for your own use an
- ╥ffi╙ ligature. The original had only ╥ft,╙ ╥ff,╙ ╥fi,╙ ╥fl,╙ and ╥ffl.╙ You could
- do others very easily, usually with nothing more than a Get Part. But don╒t go
- crazy. Don╒t slant it! It had no italic to begin with, and doesn╒t need one.
-
- If you use it for blocks of text, always try it first set solid, that is, with
- a line spacing equal to its size, 12 on 12, for instance. The face, because
- of its small x-height, is very small on the body, and the lines will fly apart
- with too much leading. Since you╒re setting type on a computer, you can even
- use a negative leading. I have made a few attractive pages using 13 point type
- leaded 12.5 points. Works well.
-
- The bitmap sizes included are 12, 13, 14, 18, 24, and 48. The first three have
- been edited in Fontastic Plus, but with no intention to make them look like the
- type face--a silly enterprise. The 24 and 48 came out well enough that they
- need (for my taste) nothing more. But the 18 is a mess, and it has not been
- touched. Fix it if you like, or do what I do and live with it.
-
- And a Merry Christmas to all from
-
- Richard Mitchell
- Associate Circulation Editor
-
- The Underground Grammarian
- Post Office Box 203
- Glassboro, NJ 08028
-
- To install this font you need only two of the files in this archive:
-
- The PostScript file should be dropped into your System Folder. The PostScript
- file is the one named ╥GraphLig╙.
-
- The contents of the bitmap file should be installed into your System file
- with the Font/DA Mover version 3.8 or above. Use the standard procedure
- for installing a bitmap font file. The bitmap file is the one named
- ╥GraphicLight.bmap╙. If you have trouble doing this, double check that you
- are using Font/DA Mover version 3.8. When Font/DA Mover 3.8 is running, you
- will see the number 3.8 in the top left corner of the menu bar.
-
- All the other files you can ignore, unless you have Fontographer 3.0.