Hi

My name is Doug Olena. My wife and I have a Desktop Publishing company in Barton Vermont called Keystrokes. My interest in fonts goes back to some work I did on our Mac Plus in 1987 that I sold to UpTime Disk Magazine. I craved some fair market to develop software for and found I had too little talent programming. 

Typefaces always fascinated me and I decided to test the waters with a PostScript typeface called Dana Line. I sold it to DiskWorld Magazine for a fair return on my expenditures and decided that I needed to find some typeface artwork unavailable in electronic form. I believe I found an excellent collection of Alphabets of the Art Deco Tradition, called "Book of Art Deco Alphabets" published by Sterling/Main Street Press.The whole collection I have developed contains most of the alphabets in that book and many additional styles that are straightforwardly derivative from them.

There are (at the moment) 40 typefaces derived from original artwork and an additional 25 typefaces which are variations on the original collection.This disk contains both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 versions of the alphabet I named Arwen after my first daughter. (There is an alphabet called EDEN in the book and Eden is my second daughter's name. Arwen was jealous that Eden had an alphabet named after her, so...)

It is a fine example of the Art Deco Tradition. The clean lines and delicate symmetrical balance of the parts make for rich and interesting layouts. The names of the typefaces are either as they appear in the Book of Art Deco Alphabets by Sterling/Main Street Press or when I believed there would be a conflict with currently available typefaces, the names were trademarked or the names were not available in the book, I gave them names capriciously. Some names are representative of the Type, like Searsucker, while some are Germanic, like Hindenburg (much that is part of the Art Deco tradition comes from Germany and Europe.) 

For a few of them I have names of their designers: I know that Robert Hunter Middleton, an American designer for Ludlow Typograph Company of Chicago, designed Eden Light, Classic Sans Serif and Delphian Open Title; Rudolf Koch of the Klingspor foundry in Offenbach produced (in this collection,) Maximilian, Neuland and Zepplin; Adrian Frutiger working for Deberny & Peignot of Paris produced Bifur, a version of which is included in this collection as Shades. Some of the styles are relatively common in electronic form: Empire (designer: David Berlow?), FFD Broadway (Broadway, designer: M.F. Benton), FFD Huxley Vertical, FFD Koloss, FFD Neuland Inline.

I do not have the resources to discover all the trivia about the type and the questions of origin and name. Those questions interest me, but I don't have time or the tenacity to do all the gumshoe work. There are resources, but I only have a few of them, none encyclopaedic. 

I am fascinated by the type itself, the geometry or lack of it, the style and sense of it. I have fallen in love with the variety of shapes possible from some 62+ basic letter shapes & punctuation. The Art Deco Tradition of the 20's & 30's and the revival of the art form in the late 60's & 70's (in the United States) have produced styles and characters unique to our machine age. Little of the Art Deco tradition serves well for body text, but most of it is great for headings and advertisements, newsletters and LOGO's. 

Enjoy

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See the Flier for pricing or call the number below. The package comes with a font selection guide and your choice of Type 1 or TrueType versions for the Mac System 6.5 and up or PC, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 or OS/2 2.1 or above and TrueType for Windows NT.

Feel free to distribute this software (Arwen, Fox and Burrito Fonts in either or both formats) as long as this ReadMe document is included. The collection is commercial software and is available now. If you use Arwen, Fox or Burrito and like them call me at:

205-871-8803

If you want to order the package, use Master Card or VISA, or send a check or money order for the package and $3.00 for shipping and handling (in US Dollars or its equivalent) to:

Keystrokes
222 Peerless Ave.
Birmingham, AL 35209

Internet address:  dougolena@aol.com
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INSTALLATION:
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NOTE: These fonts are not designed to be used without Adobe Type Manager (ATM) or a TrueType rasterizer (included in System 7 for the Mac and MS Windows 3.1 for the PC.) They will not look very good on screen and will print poorly on a dot matrix printer if you don't have ATM or A TrueType rasterizer. They will print well, however, if you wish to use a TrueType or PostScript printer. For additional cost I can include selected bitmap fonts for the Macintosh.

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IBM PC or compatible running Windows 
A. Adobe Type 1 for Windows using ATM (Adobe Type Manager)
B. Microsoft TrueType for Windows 3.1 and NT
C. Microsoft TrueType for Windows 95

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A. Using ATM in Windows 3.x.
	•	Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive.
	•	Open the ATM utility in Windows.
	•	Click on ADD...,
	•	Open the directory that contains the Arwen.* files and select "Arwen".
	•	Click on ADD
	•	Click on Exit
	•	Restart Windows

B. Using TrueType in Windows 3.1.
	•	Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive.
	•	Open the Control Panel device in Windows 3.1 (or later)
	•	Double Click on Fonts 
	•	Click on ADD..., 
	•	Open the directory that contains the Arwen___.TTF file and select "Arwen Regular". 
	•	Click "OK" 
	•	Exit the Control Panel.

C. Using TrueType for Windows 95
	•	Insert the Samples diskette in the 3.5" drive
	•	Open the Control Panel
	•	Double click on Fonts
	•	Go to File: Add fonts
	•	Select the correct disk drive and add the fonts.