11 March 1993

Attic Antique has a singular gimmick: it resembles the wavy, broken serif type you might find in a hundred-year-old textbook. Akin to the Century faces, Attic is quite legible even at tiny point sizes, which give a subtle look of age; use at larger sizes for drop caps or to make a design statement. Gives a hand-cut look to heads, decks, cutlines, other display type. Also good for a suggestion of photocopied text. Comes with a full-fledged character set, including upper and lower cases, numerals, punctuation, diacriticals Ñ I even threw in a few weird dingbats for good measure. Includes 12- and 24-point bitmaps. Works well with Adobe Type Managerª, Illustrator¨, Aldus PageMaker¨, QuarkXPress¨, etc. PostScript Type 1 version (TrueTypeª also available). Install as usual.

This initial shareware offering has a single book weight thatÕs just a tad on the heavy side, on account of the old-type effect. Users who pay the $10 shareware fee (and include their return addresses) will receive the latest version of Attic on disk, plus a premium: true italics. IÕll also send along news of any additional fonts, utilities, or other products I might by then have available.

If you choose to keep Attic Antique, please send a check for $10 to:

Three Islands Press
215 Cedar Street
Rockland, ME 04841-2307

Please also mention where you picked up Attic Antique and whether youÕre using the Type 1 version or the TrueTypeª version. Feel free also to note comments, criticisms, bugs, suggestions, other characters and/or weights youÕd like to see, etc. YouÕre welcome to pass Attic along, but please pass along this document, too. Many thanks.

Brian Willson
America Online: BWillson
CompuServe: 76662,2364