A freeware effort by Jonathan Hodges
Hi!
This is an updated version of Middleton, a freeware typeface available to the DTP
community. Changes in version 1.1 are:
1. Accented characters are now composites, which significantly reduces the size
of the font.
2. The cent sign, which had a winding problem which several people pointed out
to me, has been properly rendered.
3. The word space, which people have also complained was too small, has been
slightly enlarged. However, because this is a display face designed for large
pointsizes, the wordspace is still substantially tighter than fonts from other
commercial vendors like Adobe orBitstream.
4. Additional bitmaps have been added (10, 12, 14, 18 & 24) because a surprising
number of people don't use ATM, primarily on portables.
5. The register and trademarks have been shrunk to proper size.
All other mhanged. The Mac NFNT number being used is 3062Ņif you are running
into a font conflict, there are several commercial and shareware products that
allow you to change the NFNT number. Mac fonts in the public domain are required
to use NFNT numbers in the 1024 to 3071 range. The Adobe UniqueID number (for
those who keep track of such things) is set to 5013602 and has been registered
with Adobe (this speeds font caching on printers but has no other appreciable
effect).
Files included in this upload are:
Middleton.pfb Type 1 Macintosh Printer Font
Middleton.AFM AFM file with widths, kerns and other metric info in ASCII form
Middleton.scr The Macintosh font suitcase
READ.ME The file you are reading
Middleton is an unabashed knockoff of Florentine, a display face created by R.
Hunter Middleton, the former director of type design for Ludlow. During his
lifetime, Middleton created some 90 faces primarily for the advertising
community, including the popular font family Radiant and the first true
serif/sans serif hybrid, Stellar. As far as I have been able to determine.
Florentine is a registered trademark of T.J. Lyons, which in turn has licensed
the face to a variety of vendors such as Linotype and VGC, although none of them
have released it in PostScript format.
Middleton is freeware although the following restrictions apply to its
distribution: this font can be freely passed along to other users as long as it
containes all files, including this READ.ME message. On CompuServe, Middleton is
available on the DTPFORUM exclusively. It is also available in New York on a
great little BBS called Laserboard. Other bulletin boards wishing to upload the
font should contact me for permission.
The font may be uploaded onto any Macintosh User Group bulletin board and
included in any MUG CD-ROM collection or MUG-authorized font disc collection.
It is NOT to be included on shareware collections sold for profit. I dislike
seeing my work lumped in with sales pitches that promise "Over 200 megs of fonts!"
I don't have a huge legal staff, but please respect my wishes. This font is
intended to be shared among the telecommunicating typesetting community --
primarily those who also give, either of their programming or design talents,
their knowledge or simply their sympathy when someone encounters a print
production problem not easily solved from the desktop.
WARNING! Middleton has been ripped off by several people selling PC font
collections (you kind of expect it from those rotten DOS-heads). I'm not going
to worry too much about this -- if the PC crowd favored TrueType over Type 1,
there's no point talking to them about font thefts. On the Mac side, however, at
least one pirated version is making the rounds from some moron called Ricko and
his fabulous Rix Bargain Font Foundry who has the nerve to be asking for $15 for
a font I digitized and distribute for free! ("How do we sell fonts so cheaply?
We STEAL them!") Needless to say, I take a dim view to my fonts appearing on any
BBS that accepts font contributions from Rix Bargain Font Foundry, especially
New Rix Fancy (which is what that slease is calling my font).
Back to business. Although a Type 1 font, Middleton does not utilize the
standard Adobe encoding layout in order to include some very nice alternate
characters. The following characters can be found on the font:
Option 5 (alternate A)
Shift Option = (alternate B)
Option , (alternate E)
Option . (alternate F)
Option d (alternate M)
Option w (alternate N)
Shift Option p (alternate O)
Option p (alternate P)
Option b (alternate R)
Option z (alternate S)
Option v (alternate e)
Option x (alternate o)
Option j (alternate y)
I also included an open ballot box under Shift-Option-2 just because I use them
so frequently. Brad the Penguin, my company's mascot, is under the Shift-Option-k
combo that normally holds the Apple logo.
Middleton is released in memory of Michael DeCrescente, the former general
manager of Characters Typographical Services, Inc., who died of cancer in 1989.
A contribution to the American Cancer Society is always appreciated.
Notification of any problems with the font or requests for its upload on other
bulletin boards can be made to:
Jonathan Hodges
Penguin Productions
61 Winchester Road
Ronkonkoma,
New York 11779
CIS #76276,3102