Attic Antique has a singular gimmick: it resembles the wavy, broken serif type you might find in a hundred-year-old textbook. Akin to the Century faces, Attic is quite legible even at tiny point sizes, which give a subtle look of age; use at larger sizes for drop caps or to make a design statement. Gives a hand-cut look to heads, decks, cutlines, other display type. Also good for a suggestion of photocopied text. Comes with a full-fledged character set, including upper and lower cases, numerals, punctuation, diacriticals — I even threw in a few weird dingbats for good measure. Includes 12- and 24-point bitmaps. Works well with Adobe Type Manager™, Illustrator®, Aldus PageMaker®, QuarkXPress®, etc. PostScript Type 1 version (TrueType™ also available). Install as usual.
This initial shareware offering has a single book weight that’s just a tad on the heavy side, on account of the old-type effect. Users who pay the $10 shareware fee (and include their return addresses) will receive the latest version of Attic on disk, plus a premium: true italics. I’ll also send along news of any additional fonts, utilities, or other products I might by then have available.
If you choose to keep Attic Antique, please send a check for $10 to:
Three Islands Press
215 Cedar Street
Rockland, ME 04841-2307
Please also mention where you picked up Attic Antique and whether you’re using the Type 1 version or the TrueType™ version. Feel free also to note comments, criticisms, bugs, suggestions, other characters and/or weights you’d like to see, etc. You’re welcome to pass Attic along, but please pass along this document, too. Many thanks.
