Notes :  
  
Here is a collection of ornaments, which go along rather nicely  
with Adobe's Wood Type Package. There isn't much to say  
about this font - all of the characters were digitized from an  
enlarged photocopy of Roy Kelly's American Wood Types,  
and most of ornaments, flourishes and pointers come from  
Hamilton's 1906 catalogue, which original I have never  
seen. Interestingly enough, most of the Adobe Type can be  
found in Kelly's book, a not surprising fact since American  
Wood Type is the wood type bible, nearly by itself sparking  
a revival of interest (and types) in Wood Type. Also, Kelly  
wrote an introduction for Adobe, and methinks acted as  
a consultant of sorts as well. To be fair to Adobe, the types  
seem to deserve the label "Original", not only because of the  
quality of digitization, which is high, but also because the  
Adobe design staff created characters never previously  
included with the face. At any rate, most of the characters  
here don't appear in Adobe's Package (which was part of  
the reason why this font exists at all), and though some of  
the curves in the font are less than entirely satisfactory  
(which font having been coughed up over a week last month),  
I hope it will be of some use.  
  
Nigel Yeoh  
zdtl123 @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.ash  
compuserve : 100016,275  
  
August 1990  
  
Credits:  
I'd like to thank David Collier and the other folks at Decode  
Design, 1 Ashland House, Ashland Place, London, for absolutely  
invaluable spiritual guidance. May Jolt Cola never appear in  
any of his videos.