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PCOrnaments
Here is a collection of ornaments, which go along rather nicely with
Adobe's Wood Type Package. There isn't much to say about this font -
all of the characters were digitized from an enlarged photocopy of Roy
Kelly's American Wood Types, and most of ornaments, flourishes and
pointers come from Hamilton's 1906 catalogue, which original I have
never seen. Interestingly enough, most of the Adobe Type can be found
in Kelly's book, a not surprising fact since American Wood Type is the
wood type bible, nearly by itself sparking a revival of interest (and
types) in Wood Type. Also, Kelly wrote an introduction for Adobe, and
methinks acted as a consultant of sorts as well. To be fair to Adobe,
the types seem to deserve the label "Original", not only because of the
quality of digitization, which is high, but also because the Adobe design
staff created characters never previously included with the face. At
any rate, most of the characters here don't appear in Adobe's Package
(which was part of the reason why this font exists at all), and though
some of the curves in the font are less than entirely satisfactory (which
font having been coughed up over a week last month), I hope it will be
of some use.
Nigel Yeoh
zdtl123 @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.ash
compuserve : 100016,275
August 1990
Credits:
I'd like to thank David Collier and the other folks at Decode Design, 1
Ashland House, Ashland Place, London, for absolutely invaluable spiritual
guidance. May Jolt Cola never appear in any of his videos.
Font Formats: - Adobe (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
- DMF (+ bitmap)
- Bitmap (Black&White)
- IntelliFont
Font ID: 9954
Directory: Pictures/PCOrnaments
This font is Freeware. You can copy it with the readme files only.