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Broadway is a strong font. Commonly used as headlines and
announcement text. Bold in its style, but also delicate in it's
lines. A happy blend of styles.
Sometimes called 'Madison' this font has been used by the Atari
systems for sometime in GDOS format. Now finished for the outline
format of Calamus. To best utilize the printing ability of a 300
dpi laser printer the font's thin lines have been increased 50%.
This allows for the printing of characters without any loss of
integrity down to 9 point for the standard style. Due to the
embellished style of the Engraved Broadway font this increases to
21 points for the medium and expanded, and 24 points for the
condensed fonts. Of course they appear splendid at higher point
sizes.
The standard style contains all numbers, punctuation, capital and
lower case letters. Also included are the accentuated alphabet,
pound, yen and other assorted accent marks. The engraved fonts are
upper case and numbers. Of course included are the punctuation
marks. The common usage of this font is to either begin words with
the normal lower case letterset following or complete uppercase
headlines.
Certain characters are not common in the standard typeset, so a
'best and can determine' set was designed to fill the set while
staying faithful to the intent of the font style. Optimization was
kept close because of the font's broad style. While little kerning
is needed, some pairs may need to be examined for greatest
consideration.
For ordering information or to receive a free brochure see the
enclosed ORDER.ME file.
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A quick note on the careful creation of this font.
Each letter was carefully roughed in and then printed out on an HP
Laserjet II at 300 dpi. While one letter was being checked out for
finishing, the next letter was in a stage of being created. In
this way all the characters were created and polished. This caused
a printing out of over 60+ pages, of the fonts in various stages.
They were also printed out in various sizes to check on the effect
of line thickness and useability.
Some of the letters were flipped or turned but most had to be
created from scratch. Broadway Engraved was created secondly but
it is a true separate font. Only a couple of the letters are close
enough to have been copied between them and adjusted. Due to the
way the engraved line is inserted into the character, each took
some time to develop. Each of the characters was then kerned and
adjusted for the desired set.
Because of the way Calamus can size the letters in a font, I found
that the best way I could adjust the fonts for new uses was to
condense or extend the sets. This especially allows for the fonts
to work out for headlines and sub-titles. Now without having to be
tied to a larger or smaller size than would be best utilized you
can have more text on each line or space it out and use the
extended size.
Any further questions or comments can be sent to me via EMAIL on
Genie. Send to A.H.DAVIS.
Thanks again for your interest.