Wherever used, it adds an old-world elegance to your printed page. There are now ligatures of ct and st at Option-comma and Option-period, and of course the ligatures of fi and fl are in their standard locations at Option-5 and Option-6.īlackChancery is great for headlines, letterheads, greeting cards. There is an optional lowercase j available by pressing Option-j, if you prefer a different style. This extended the remarkable uncoordinated collaborative effort full circle, from his Fanc圜hancery bitmaps, to Doug's BlackChancery version, to PostScript outlines by Marion Delahan, and back to Bill!) It's more angular looking, more faithful to actual hand-done broad-pen calligraphy. (Note that Bill Horton has made his own public domain PostScript version of BlackChancery, considerably restyled and called MacHumaine.

He converted the numbers to 'old style' figures, probably more appropriate for this font. Doug Miles further cleaned-up the outlines, removing unneeded control points, adjusted the height and baseline positions of most characters, resized some of them, added accented letters and other option characters. used Fontographer 3.2 to autotrace the BlackChancery bitmaps to make PostScript Type 1 outlines, cleaned them up, adjusted character spacing and added kerning pairs. Doug Miles filled in the dots, did some restyling, made five additional large point sizes, and gave it a new name.Įarl Allen of Altsys Corp.

(Rather like his Palazzo Grey font, part of CasadyÕs bitmap Fluent Fonts). And a suitable companion to Black Chancery Italic.īlack Chancery began, several years ago, as a modification of Bill HortonÕs lovely Fanc圜hancery 24 point bitmap, which had random dots missing from within the letters to give the effect of snow falling in front of them.

It's a good looking and useful display font, lending itself well to many occasions. (Includes both PostScript and TrueType outlines)īlack Chancery is a calligraphic outline font based on the public domain bitmap font of the same name. Version of 11/19/91 by Earl Allen/Doug Miles

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