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Font family: JSL Ancient

Font subfamily identification: Normal

Unique identifier: Alts:JSL Ancient

Full font name: JSL Ancient

Version: 3.0 Monday, 11 December 2000

Postscript font name: JSL-Ancient

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Readme file for JSL Ancient fonts
Version 2.1
6 December 2000

The "JSL Ancient" and "JSL Ancient Italic" fonts are based upon two
nearly identical typefaces of seventeenth-century English printers.
The first source used was "A compendious view of the late tumults &
troubles in this kingdom by way of annals for seven years", by James
Wright, printed by Edward Jones in 1685; the second was "Ars Pictoria,
or an Academy treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching", by
Alexander Browne, printed by J. Redmayne in 1668.

The two source typefaces are nearly identical, and the most interesting
features, such as the descender on the italic capital N, are present
in both. I used Redmayne's typeface primarily to fill in the missing
letters from Jones'. Both typefaces had several different versions of
certain italic capitals; I chose the more interesting ones. One feature
of Redmayne's italic typeface that was lacking in Jones' was the
peculiar extensions of horizontal strokes, used to reduce the amount of
whitespace used when justifying shorter lines of text. (I may eventually
produce a "JSL Ancient Italic Bold" which includes these extended
letters.)

Extremely similar (in some cases, virtually identical) typefaces were in
use in England from the late 1500s through the 1700s, so these fonts are
suitable for a wide range of historical reproduction applications.

This is version 2.1 of the fonts. Originally, the archaic characters
and ligatures had been mapped primarily to the "unused" character cells
in the Windows fonts. Unfortunately, certain Microsoft applications
ignore these unused cells, rendering those characters inaccessible.
Therefore, the archaic glyphs have been remapped to less-frequently-used
positions. New ligatures (fi, ffi) have also been added, due to
popular request. Furthermore, the fonts are now edit-embeddable, to
permit creation of Adobe Acrobat documents and Web pages with embedded
fonts.

These fonts were produced with Fontographer 3.5.2. Because they use
ANSI encoding, the glyph mapping will be somewhat different under OS/2
and the Macintosh.

Version 2.1 moved the "sl" and "ff" ligatures to different positions;
the former because its previous position interfered with certain word
processors which used the superscript "2" character for footnotes, and
the latter because it prevented the use of the Catalan raised period.
The macron has also been changed to a non-advancing glyph, positioned
above the previous character (to facilitate the overline abbreviations
common to Renaissance printing).


Win JSL Ancient
Code JSL Ancient Italic Arial
---------------------------------------------------------------
0131 Long 's' Long 's' florin (script f)
0162 'ct' ligature 'ct' ligature cents currency symbol
0165 'st' ligature 'st' ligature Yen currency symbol
0171 'is' ligature double left guillemet
0172 'sh' ligature 'sh' ligature logical not
0176 'fi' ligature 'fi' ligature degree symbol
0177 'ss' ligature 'ss' ligature plus or minus symbol
0166 'sl' ligature superscript 2
0181 'ffi' ligature 'ffi' ligature micro symbol
0164 'ff' ligature 'ff' ligature raised period
0187 'll' ligature double right guillemet
0247 Alternate 'v' divided-by symbol

(A blank entry in JSL Ancient indicates that the code refers to the same
character as in Arial.)

JSL Ancient and JSL Ancient Italic are copyright (c) 1997-2000 by
Jeffrey S. Lee. Permission is granted to freely distribute them,
provided that they are distributed unaltered, both the roman and italic
versions are distributed together, and they are accompanied by this text
file. They may not be included in any commercial package without prior
permission from the author. These fonts are "emailware"; if you like
them and decide to use them, please send me email at the address listed
below. I will not charge you any money or send you annoying email spam;
I'm simply interested in who's using it, and I'd be happy to receive any
comments you might have about the fonts.

Jeff Lee
http://www.shipbrook.net/jeff/
[email protected]