MIDNIGHT KERNBOY from Sentinel Type, designed by James Arboghast<br />
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Hello, and thanks for downloading Midnight Kernboy -- a 21st century interpretation of City.<br />
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The slab serif, or egyptienne type style, was introduced around 1815 by Vincent Figgins; at the time it was considered the most brilliant typographic invention of the 19th century, and the style quickly established itself as a favorite for headline and poster work. George Trump's City (1930) marked the end of classicism in Egyptienne type the same year it started -- with the pure geometric forms of Memphis (1930), proving once again that classical periods in art never last long...<br />
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Or failing a post-modern ironic sense of humor, one might try to reform the monoline squared egyptienne by restructuring it and selectively knocking off serifs.<br />
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Midnight Kernboy avoids City's somewhat homogeneous letter treatment with simplified structures and cunning serif omissions. The result is an elegant semi-serif typeface with a minimalist contemporary feel leaning toward futurism.<br />
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The Midnight Kernboy package features:<br />
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* Regular, Oblique, Bold & Stencil versions<br />
* Professionally designed commercial quality font(s) <br />
* Full punctuation, smart quotes, currency, fractions, superiors etc<br />
* Accented Western European characters and a few ligatures<br />
* Fully embeddable for use with Adobe .PDF documents<br />
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Extra Characters<br />
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Glyph			Cell		Keystroke   PC/MAC<br />
monocular 'a' 		ascii tilde	SHIFT+6<br />
Euro			Euro		ALT+0128   OPT+SHIFT2<br />
OE			OE		ALT+0140   OPT+SHIFT+q<br />
TM			Trademark	ALT+0153   OPT+h<br />
oe			OE		ALT+0156   OPT+x<br />
cent			cent		ALT+0162   OPT+4<br />
sterling			sterling		ALT+0163   OPT+3<br />
Euro			currency	ALT+0164   OPT+SHIFT+2<br />
Yen			yen		ALT+0165   OPT+Y<br />
alternate 'k'		broken bar	ALT+0166   SHIFT+BACKSLASH<br />
alternate 'K'		section		ALT+0167   OPT+6<br />
(c)			copyright	ALT+0169   OPT+g<br />
(r)			registered	ALT+0174   OPT+r<br />
AE			AE		ALT+0198   OPT+SHIFT+'<br />
ae			ae		ALT+0230   OPT+'+a<br />
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Midnight Kernboy is free for personal use. For use on a commercial design job you must purchase a commercial license, available from www.myfonts.com  Please read the End User License Agreement included in this package for details.<br />
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Thanks for taking the time to read, and have fun with Midnight Kernboy.<br />
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James Arboghast<br />
25.09.04 Melbourne, Australia<br />