Ebony
Font:Ebony
Author:Claude and Character
Post Date:June 13, 2011
Comments:Ebony is on page 38 of 100 Ornamental Alphabets by Dan X. Solo and also on page 43 of The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces.
 
Ebony was designed by William F. Capitain and patented on May 6, 1890.

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:18:42 -0700 Subject: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character Ebony.rar(1/1) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts This is the first known digitization of "Ebony", as seen in the Solotype catalog, page 43. Claude did the digitization of the basic alphabet, numbers, and punctuation. Character added accented characters, additional punctuation, spacing, kerning, and other miscellany. Enjoy! Attachment: Ebony.rar [See font download link below]

From: claude <claudeserieux©gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:54:15 GMT Subject: Re: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character Ebony.rar(1/1) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Le percent, un oublie unicode Merci de l'avoir complèter claude
Google Translation:
The percent, one forgets unicode Thank you for having complete
Attachment: percent.png

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:08:44 -0700 Subject: Re: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character Ebony.rar(1/1) CORRECTED V1.2 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....portion of quoted text snipped....] > Le percent, un oublie unicode DAMMIT! I was sure I'd fixed that when I created the perthou glyph. Here's version 1.2, with corrected percent. > Merci de l'avoir complèter Mon plaisir. - Ch.
Google Translation:
My pleasure
Attachment: Ebony.rar [See font download link below]

From: Stylus <stylus@moonbasealphabet.comma> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:46 -0400 Subject: Re: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character - D19800_1890Capitain@MarderConnor_Ebony.pdf (0/1) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Thank you. I love your rendition of Ebony. 1890 lives again! For readers unfamiliar with the provenance of the font, I enclose a copy of the patent for ready reference. --stylus

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:20:46 -0700 Subject: Re: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character - D19800_1890Capitain@MarderConnor_Ebony.pdf (0/1) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] Oh my! And Thank you! I asked claude what the source of his images was, but he never replied. I wish I'd had this earlier - clearly the 'R', question mark, exclamation point, and comma don't match. The patent page also has a couple of nice ligatures (Th and Co). I'd also have put the original attribution into the designer information in the font. Is it too early for a Version 2.0? - Character

From: Stylus <stylus@moonbasealphabet.comma> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Introducing: EBONY by Claude and Character - D19800_1890Capitain@MarderConnor_Ebony.pdf (1/1) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Attachment: D19800_1890Capitain@MarderConnor_Ebony.pdf

From: claude <claudeserieux©gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:34:26 GMT Subject: Attn.Character 2 Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Attachment: ebony.png Ebony character set
From: claude <claudeserieux©gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:33:51 GMT Subject: Attn.Character Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Je n'ai pas le temps de la faire. claude
Google Translation:
I do not have time to do it.
Attachment: Ebony.vfb

From: Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:04:24 -0700 Subject: Re: Attn.Character Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts [....quoted text snipped....] It looks like you've already done most of the work. I'll be glad to adjust the spacing and add kerning. I'm also working on Driftwood (Solocat p.67), Stamps (p.66), and Rustic (p. 67). I'll probably post them at the same time as the next version of the Solopedia. Quelle est le provenance de l'image Ebony? - Character
Google Translation:
What is the origin of the image Ebony?

From: claude <claudeserieux©gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:57:54 GMT Subject: Re: Attn.Character Newsgroups: alt.binaries.fonts Character <Char@cters.bold.italic> wrote in news:u9eDp.1995$nZ1.342@en- nntp-15.dc1.easynews.com: > Quelle est le provenance de l'image Ebony? Reardon & Krebs La vieille façon de dire le numéro de téléphone. YUkon claude
Google Translation:
The old way of saying the phone number. Yukon
Attachment: 1955.jpg Source of Ebony character set
@ in email addresses that appear to be valid were replaced with ©.
 
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