Hi!

Middleton is a typeface designed for use on Macintosh 
computers running PostScript. The face was created using 
Fontographer 3.1 and is a hinted Type 1 font completely 
compatible with Adobe Type Manager.

Middleton is an unabashed knockoff of Florentine, a display 
face created by R. Hunter Middleton, the former director of 
type design for Ludlow. During his lifetime, Middleton 
created some 90 faces primarily for the advertising 
community, including the popular face Radiant.

This font is being released as freeware to the typesetting 
community. However, it can only be uploaded onto electronic 
bulletin boards with my permission. On CompuServe, this 
font is exclusively found on the DTPFORUM -- under no 
circumstances is this font to be loaded onto any other CIS 
forum.

Although a Type 1 font, Middleton does not utilize the 
standard Adobe encoding layout in order to include some 
very nice alternate characters. The following characters 
can be found on the font:

Option 5               (alternate A)
Shift Option =         (alternate B)
Option ,               (alternate E)
Option .               (alternate F)
Option d               (alternate M)
Option w               (alternate N)
Shift Option p         (alternate O)
Option p               (alternate P)
Option b               (alternate R)
Option z               (alternate S)
Option u               (alternate e)
Option x               (alternate o)
Option j               (alternate v)

I also included an open ballot box under Shift-Option-2 
just because I use them so frequently.

Middleton is released in memory of Michael DeCrescente, the 
former general manager of Characters Typographical 
Services, Inc., who died of cancer in 1989. A contribution 
to the American Cancer Society is always appreciated.

Notification of any  problems with the font or requests for 
its upload on other bulletin boards can be made to:

Jon Hodges
24-32 26th Street
Astoria, NY 11102
CIS #76276,3102

Please be aware that I am still philosophically wrestling 
with the whole issue of font knockoffs, so grab the face 
now. If and when Florentine is released commercially, I may 
decide the pull the font off the boards.