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.

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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

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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

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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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