Enclosed you will find the necessary files to use GriffinDingbats, a set of TrueType™ fonts. The fonts contain about 155 picture characters and a rather ornate Gothic drop caps font. The picture images range from Art Nouveau printer ornaments, Renaissance printer ornaments and woodcut printer ornaments to smiling, walking vegetables; the drop caps letters are based on a Gothic typeface called Celebration. An IBM PC PostScript Type 1 version will soon be available and will be uploaded to Compuserve. PostScript Type 1 versions are also available. The four fonts fill the regular, shift, option and shift-option keyboards with splendorous pictures; hence the four font names. Look on the SHIFT keyboard for the drop caps fonts. The TrueType version of this font was created from a PostScript font and converted by FontMonger, version 1.03.
The GriffinDingbats fonts install like any font. The font characters should be self-explanatory. Repeating characters and borders will be found everywhere; certain woodcut characters and ornaments have a deliberately rough quality to them, in order to preserve their original printed character. The ornament under option-period will need to be printed at a size exceeding 72 points, at 300 dpi, in order to have the intended white-on-black effect.
CAVEAT: If you print to a PostScript or PostScript-compatible printer, it is recommended you NOT use these fonts; use, instead, the true PostScript Type 1 versions that are also available, possibly from the same place you got these fonts. These characters were originally created with PostScript outlines and may not survive the conversion from PostScript to TrueType and back to PostScript.
Please make your check payable to Griffin Music Ensemble and mail it to Griffin Music Ensemble, 19 Chestnut Terrace, Newton Centre, MA 01259.
You may make copies of the GriffinDingbats fonts for personal use and you may give copies away, providing no money changes hands and providing all the files in this archive are included, including the file you are reading. User groups and other nonprofit organizations may also distribute this font on disks for which they charge money, with the same conditions. Even commercial organizations that sell shareware disks may sell disks containing this font, providing the profit is not excessive and providing the obnoxious “Paying for this disk doesn’t mean you’ve paid for the software on it” message appears on the disk label containing this software and providing the previously mentioned conditions are met.
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