Black Chancery Italic Type 1 PS font

version of 11/18/91 by Doug Miles

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Finally, an Italic variety of the popular Black Chancery PostScript
font. This is a calligraphic Type 1 font based on the public domain
bitmap font of the same name. It's a good looking and useful display
font, lending itself well to many occasions.

Black Chancery began as a modification of Bill Horton's lovely
FancyChancery 24 point bitmap, which had random dots missing from
within the letters to give the effect of snow falling in front of
them. (Rather like his Palazzo Grey font, part of Casady's Fluent
Fonts). Doug Miles filled in the dots, did some restyling, made five
additional large point sizes, and gave it a new name.

Earl Allen of Altsys Corp. used Fontographer 3.2 to autotrace the
BlackChancery bitmaps to make PostScript Type 1 outlines, cleaned
them up, adjusted character spacing and added kerning pairs. Doug
Miles further cleaned-up the outlines, removing unneeded control
points, adjusted the height and baseline positions of most
characters, resized some of them, added accented letters and other
option characters. He converted the numbers to "old style" figures,
probably more appropriate for this font.

Doug Miles made the Italic font from the Roman outlines, slanting
most characters to the right. Control points were repositioned for
better print quality at smaller sizes. Some slight modifications to
some character shapes were made, and the capital W was restyled.
Optimum use of composite characters was made to minimize the size
of the PostScript printer font. Thus it will download faster, take
less printer memory, but the printer will take slightly longer to
image the accented characters.

(Note that Bill Horton has made his own public domain PostScript
version of BlackChancery, considerably restyled and called
MacHumaine. It's more angular looking, more faithful to actual
hand-done broad-pen calligraphy.)

There is an optional lowercase j available by pressing Option-j, if
you prefer a different style. There are now ligatures of ct and st at
Option-comma and Option-period, and of course the ligatures of fi and
fl are in their standard locations at Option-5 and Option-6.

Included are the PostScript (sometimes known as the "printer font")
file, the bitmap font file (installed with Font/DA Mover), the AFM
file (which you can usually throw away), and the Fontographer
database. You can use the Fontographer database to make custom
modifications to the font if you own Fontographer.

Works with any Type 1-capable PostScript printer or Adobe Type
Manager. Does NOT work with Freedom of Press 3.0.

BlackChancery Italic is great for headlines, letterheads, greeting cards.
Wherever used, it adds an old-world elegance to your printed page.