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- 11 August, 1990
-
- This font was converted for Pagestream using Fontverter from
- MegaType Software and the PD and Shareware Pagestream editors from
- Soft-Logik. R. WALSHE
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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
-