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Fonts on this Disk

We designed Promontory and Promontory Swash especially for this collection. It looks especially good with the large caps and the swash characters can add perfect charm and feeling to many words and phrases. Henderson Bold is another of our font designs, shown in our examples on our original CD, Classic Sign Painter's Ornaments. By popular demand redigitized our original outlines and turned it into a font. All three fonts are included in TT and Type 1 formats.

Promontory - Regular and Swash
These two fonts were inspired by Plate #42 of the Frank Atkinson's 1909 book "Atkinson Sign Painting". Frank Nicholson was credited with the layout. We added some swashes and extra characters. The name commerates the legendary "Golden Spike" at the meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, UT in 1869.
Henderson Bold
This font was inspired by plates in the Henderson book. It is a fun and unique font, containing the basic characters shown above.
 
Special thanks to Chuck Davis at Letterhead Fonts for help assembling the two Promontory Fonts. He's a wizard!

Also, quite a few of the example files included on the CD contain fonts from LetterheadFonts.com (These fonts are NOT included with the Americana Collection)

Check out his beautiful and informative web site. While you are there, click on his "downloads" page and grab several of his FREE fonts.

You will probably want to purchase The Atkinson Collection of fonts to compliment our CDs. We also like Grant Antique, Smalts, Pilsner, Ephemera, Modern Classic and Wolverine. Check out the site. You will find your own favorites! Check out our Font Sources and Links page for more info.

 
 
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