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O L Y M P I A
non-proportional/mono-spaced font for Calamus
Quick - what do Ronald Regan, Nancy Regan and an old, manual
Olympia typewriter have in common?
No colon, no period & no memory!
(Sorry Ron.....)
Olympia is a font that I did for a particular job that I had to match
the font on. By the time I had completed it, I had both missed the
deadline (and had to use another font) and didn't like it. I dropped
it onto a floppy and threw it into a box with 400 other floppies who's
contents I can't remember.
I am NOT a font writer. I'm reasonably good at taking an existing
font and making minor alterations to fit a particular job. But write
a font? Hah!!! This was my one and only effort at doing one from
scratch. I only did this one because I get into these moods where I
tell clients "If it can be done on a computer, I can do it on my ST."
Usually I can - sometimes I can almost... and they end up in the
floppy box.
Anyway, time passed and people were asking for a mono-spaced font. I
had just received a copy of TypeCad from Gregg Rodgers, business was
slow so I took TypeCad for a test drive. I traced where I had to
trace, I linked where I had to link & I kerned everywhere.... Ta da,
Olympia, a mono-spaced, Outline Art friendly font. Not the best, but
it'll do.
There are very few extended characters. I didn't need them, so I
didn't do them. I debated about moving the extended characters that
there are up to behind the normal character set, for easy access, but
decided to leave them in the slots where they belong. When you flip
through the font overview table, the section symbol is the last
character I've included.
I was going to name this font "Not Quite Ready For Prime Time", but
it wouldn't fit into the name section. If you want to improve the
font, please do, and upload the improved font. If you want to use it
as is, feel free. If you want to trash it - well, you just wasted
your money on the download.
Sandy Cerovich
Page Design & Consulting Service
August 9th, 1990