New Venice Medium

NEW VENICE

FROM: Russ Rowlett
RussMSEN
rowlett@email.unc.edu

RELEASE: August 1995

New Venice is a TrueType interpretation of the classic Macintosh bitmapped font Venice 14. Venice, one of the display and decorative fonts that used to be bundled with all Macs on the Systems Additions Disk, is a bold display font resembling a chancery script.

Venice was undoubtedly the most popular of the Systems Additions fonts. Although it was fancier than anything else available on the early Macs, it is very readable. All of us who used the classic Macs used Venice, and I still see the old bitmapped font on signs and certificates everywhere I go. Its biggest drawback was that only the one size, 14 points, was available. Well, here is this old Mac chestnut in a TrueType incarnation. You can use it at any size you like without any jaggies. And guess what? The design works fine at just about any size, from 12 points up to 72.

In creating New Venice, I followed the letterforms of Venice 14 pretty closely, but I made a number of changes to modernize the font. The numerals are old style, instead of the boxy, upright numerals of Venice 14. I

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