Middleton is a typeface designed for use on Macintosh computers running PostScript. The face was created using Fontographer 3.1 and is a hinted Type 1 font completely compatible with Adobe Type Manager.
Middleton is an unabashed knockoff of Florentine, a display face created by R. Hunter Middleton, the former director of type design for Ludlow. During his lifetime, Middleton created some 90 faces primarily for the advertising community, including the popular face Radiant.
This font is being released as freeware to the typesetting community. However, it can only be uploaded onto electronic bulletin boards with my permission. On CompuServe, this font is exclusively found on the DTPFORUM -- under no circumstances is this font to be loaded onto any other CIS forum.
Although a Type 1 font, Middleton does not utilize the standard Adobe encoding layout in order to include some very nice alternate characters. The following characters can be found on the font:
Option 5 (alternate A)
Shift Option = (alternate B)
Option , (alternate E)
Option . (alternate F)
Option d (alternate M)
Option w (alternate N)
Shift Option p (alternate O)
Option p (alternate P)
Option b (alternate R)
Option z (alternate S)
Option u (alternate e)
Option x (alternate o)
Option j (alternate v)
I also included an open ballot box under Shift-Option-2 just because I use them so frequently.
Middleton is released in memory of Michael DeCrescente, the former general manager of Characters Typographical Services, Inc., who died of cancer in 1989. A contribution to the American Cancer Society is always appreciated.
Notification of any problems with the font or requests for its upload on other bulletin boards can be made to:
Jon Hodges
24-32 26th Street
Astoria, NY 11102
CIS #76276,3102
Please be aware that I am still philosophically wrestling with the whole issue of font knockoffs, so grab the face now. If and when Florentine is released commercially, I may decide the pull the font off the boards.
