ILShakeFest font<br />
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Copyright 1995 Illinois Shakespeare Festival<br />
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The idea of a Folio Font:<br />
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This font is based on the First Folio of Shakespeare.  It was designed <br />
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primarily from the main titles (there are several distinct differences <br />
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between titles, text, quotes, character names, etc.).  It's a specialized <br />
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font for specific uses, but I think you'll find it enjoyable to have <br />
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available, particularly for creating the correct "feel" in an instantly <br />
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recognizable way for marketing materials for Shakespeare plays or other items <br />
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relating to the period.<br />
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The main structure of this font will work best for limited use (it's great <br />
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for display work, like the titles of the plays).  In order to have a font <br />
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that had some additional value, however, we added some characters to aid in <br />
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its use for text.  Because it was expected that the use would be mostly for <br />
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titles, it has a more oblique feel than most of the text in the folio and the<br />
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caps are a little fancy for straight text use (but close to the italics used <br />
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for songs or character names).  It _does_ have enough available to work with <br />
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some body text.<br />
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Keep in mind that you have to know how the letters are used in order to make <br />
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this font work properly.  It would be totally impractical to take a <br />
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manuscript and just select all and switch to ILShakeFest font (yes, that's <br />
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the name of it).  The main problem you would have would be in the usage of <br />
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the letter "s" which should have an entirely different look based on the <br />
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position within the word, etc.<br />
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Scott Mann (a student at Illinois State University) did all the heavy lifting<br />
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on this font and created the bulk of it, while I added ligatures, alternate <br />
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characters, and some refinements.<br />
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This should be considered a first version.  With your feedback, we will <br />
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attempt to fine-tune and add for future releases.  Are there additional <br />
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ligatures which would be useful?  Should we have a second, non-oblique font <br />
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that would be used for straight text?  Are there other punctuation marks or <br />
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symbols that are needed?  Please let us know.<br />
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This font is Freeware.  The Illinois Shakespeare Festival retains the rights <br />
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to the font, but you may distribute and use it freely as long as it is not <br />
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sold or altered and this "read me" file is included.<br />
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Why the name "ILShakeFest"?  Wouldn't "FolioFont" or "Shakespeare" have been <br />
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more appropriate?  Probably.  But that's what you pay for a free font.  We <br />
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get a little publicity.  Fair trade?<br />
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The font contains all upper and lower case letters, plus period, comma, <br />
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colon, semi-colon, question-mark, parentheses, slash, hyphen and certain <br />
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special characters. <br />
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There are some special characters that I tried to place in easy-to-remember <br />
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locations for key strokes, as follows:<br />
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Three variations of the letter "s" for lower-case use<br />
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1. The "s" that looks like a long flourish is the standard lc "s"<br />
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2. The "s" that looks like an "s" is "option-s"<br />
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3. The "s" that looks like an "f" that extends over the next letter is <br />
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"Shift-option-s".<br />
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	This works particularly well when followed by "t" or "i".<br />
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	However, the "h" is too tall to work with that, so:<br />
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The "sh" that looks like "fh" is "option-h"<br />
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The "ct" with the little connecting flourish is "option-c"<br />
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There is also a alternate capital "A" with a leading flourish that is "option-a"<br />
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_____The use of the letter "s"______<br />
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This is a quick cheat, not meant to be authoritative (I haven't studied <br />
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this), but to allow for a close approximation.<br />
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No need to worry about upper case.<br />
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For an "s" at the end of a word, use #2, above (this includes instances <br />
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before an apostrophe, such as "is't".<br />
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For almost any other "s", use #1 if it's Title or italics, and use #3 if it's <br />
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straight text.<br />
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The exception seems to be with the double-ess.  From my quick glance, I think <br />
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if in title or italics, use "1,2" and if straight text, use "3,3"<br />
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So, it is possible to take a document, change the font to "ILShakeFest" and <br />
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then use your word processor's search and replace function to:<br />
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1. Change all the "s" in the body text of the document from "s" to <br />
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"Shift-option-s", and then<br />
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2. Change all instances of "s space" and "s apostrophe" to "option-s space" <br />
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and "option-s apostrophe" respectively.<br />
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That should get you close.<br />
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A note about font types:  In both the Macintosh and Windows version, both <br />
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Type 1 and Truetype versions are included.  Which to use?  If you are <br />
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primarily printing to a non-postscript printer (ink-jets, etc.) and don't <br />
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have ATM (Adobe Type Manager), you'll probably be happier with the Truetype. <br />
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 If you're planning on doing any desk-top publishing and sending projects in <br />
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electronic form to be printed by a professional printer, you should throw out <br />
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all your Truetype fonts and try to only use Type 1 or 3 fonts, because the <br />
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high-end output for print houses really doesn't like Truetype.  (I'm sure of <br />
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this on Macintosh because I do a lot of DTP, but I'm not as confident of this <br />
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information for Windows, 'cause I don't do windows.)<br />
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I'd love to hear your feedback, comments and suggestions.  Write to me at:<br />
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pguithe@oratmail.cfa.ilstu.edu<br />
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--Peter Guither, General Manager<br />
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