Cameo Antique
Font:CameoAntique
Author:Character
Post Date:December 16, 2011
Comments:The lowercase of CameoAntique is Cameo Antique on page 17 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
 
The uppercase of CameoAntique is Nightshade on page 17 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces and on page 66 of Circus Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo.

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:47:24 -0800 Subject: Introducing: Cameo Antique (Solotype Catalog page 17) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Cameo Antique is a companion piece to Nightshade, also on page 17. Following is the content of the included text file: ---------------------------------------- Cameo Antique As seen on page 17 of the Cameo Antique is a shadowed outline version of the typeface called NightShade, on the same page. The only known digitized fonts of NightShade are "Shadowed Serif" by James Fordyce (1994) and NigelSadeSH, from Soft Horizons (1993). Shadowed Serif has been anonymously renamed and can also be found with the name NightShade. NigelSade, like all of the SoftHorizons fonts, is encoded as a symbol font. This is the reason that many of the websites where it can be obtained can not show a sample. The encoding was fixed for Cameo Antique. This font, Cameo Antique, was created by adding to and modifying NigelSade. While most of Soft Horizons' fonts were copies or clones of other fonts, no predecessor of NigelSade has been found, and its glyphs (characters) are far superior to those in Shadowed Serif, which appear to be poorly done from a scan. Created December, 2011 by "Character", a contributor to alt.binaries.fonts Attachment: CameoAntique.zip [See font download link below]

From: Stylus <stylus@moonbasealphabet.comma> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 03:14:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Introducing: Cameo Antique (Solotype Catalog page 17) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Thank you. Cameo, the original tradename of Cameo Antique, was patented by Richard Smith of Mackellar, Simith & Jordan in 1874. The serif style is unusual. Looks like the one in the wooden type called "Mansard" -- a version of which was produced by FontMesa as "Red Dog Saloon." A "mansard" roof on a building has a profile like Cameo's serifss. So I suppose that Mansard is fair term for describing the serif style of Cameo. I also saw the serif style described as "Detroit" in Atkinson's showcard book [1912]. I havn't seen that term aywhere else. --stylus

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:44:32 -0800 Subject: Re: Introducing: Cameo Antique (Solotype Catalog page 17) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] those on Mansard/Red Dog Saloon (see attached image - Nightshade without shadows on the left, Mansard on the right) By the way - I forget to include in my comments that I left NigelSade/Nightshade in as the upper case in Cameo Antique. The a-z letters of Cameo Antique are only the lower case. - Character Attachment: Nightshade-Mansard.jpg
 
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