Greetings Font Fiends:<br />
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Here is something new for you to play with. 'Paddington' is a <br />
translation of a sans serif design drawn by Edward Johnston for<br />
London Transport in 1918. It is generally considered to be the first<br />
modern sans serif design. Some comments about this translation are <br />
in order:<br />
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1. Current version number: 1.1 (February 1997)<br />
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2. No, Martha, these aren't complete character sets. I created<br />
these faces for a project, used them, polished them up a bit, and now<br />
they're yours. I may or may not extend the character sets, based on <br />
the amount of whining and sniveling that I receive. But be very nice <br />
to me or I may just tell you to buzz off.<br />
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3. The 'plain' font is based very closely on the original, but see<br />
#4 below. The italic, demibold, demibold italic, small caps and <br />
demibold small caps are my own invention. If you don't like them, <br />
don't use them.<br />
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4. I have very slightly (<10%) beefed-up the vertical stems and <br />
vertical bits of curved strokes -- this assures optically consistent<br />
strokes.<br />
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5. Some of the characters are of my own invention:<br />
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> the commercial 'at' sign (needed for e-mail addresses, alas)<br />
> the text, or lowercase, numerals<br />
> the italic lowercase a and f<br />
> the straight-back y<br />
> the $ and ¢ signs<br />
> the diacritical marks<br />
> the euro monetary symbol<br />
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6. These fonts exist in Mac Type-1 format only. <br />
I have no interest whatsoever in converting them to PC, Amiga, or<br />
Unix formats -- for those, and anything else, you're on your own.<br />
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7. I am releasing these typefaces as freeware. That's right: <br />
You don't have to pay me. I am hoping, not in vain, I trust, that <br />
you have a conscience and will not use or appropriate these typefaces <br />
to your use without giving some credit where it is due. In all events,<br />
the notice contained in the fonts must remain intact.<br />
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8. Although I have written a book about Fontographer and use it <br />
extensively, I found it necessary to finish up these fonts in <br />
FontStudio. Fontographer's hinting is, well, execrable. I was able <br />
to obtain effective automatic hinting from FontStudio that <br />
Fontographer could not equal, even with a little hand-tuning of <br />
the hints. Shocking. More shocking is that Adobe has bought Ares <br />
(who developed FontStudio) and Adobe, apparently has no plans <br />
to do anything with the program. Depressing.<br />
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Cheers.<br />
<br />
Stephen Moye, Stephen_Moye@brown.edu<br />
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