This has been my favourite font for the last few years. It's called JSL Ancient, by an odd ubergeek named Jeff Lee. It's modeled on two typefaces from 1600's English printers, and includes the weird character variations from that era. There's also an italic version, and a rather nice blackletter.
I've always liked antique fonts, but have issues with the most popular one, Caslon Antique (namely, a munted lc "e" that can look like a "c" and an overly large proportion of caps to lc, which makes it hard to read). Of course, digital fonts in general have the problem that all instances of the same character are identical, so I tend to go through and scruff things up a little, just to get a little closer to the organic feel of lead type.
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It stands for "Bend Over, Here It Comes Again".
It's remarkably useful.
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SUBOP - submission operation.
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I've always liked antique fonts, but have issues with the most popular one, Caslon Antique (namely, a munted lc "e" that can look like a "c" and an overly large proportion of caps to lc, which makes it hard to read). Of course, digital fonts in general have the problem that all instances of the same character are identical, so I tend to go through and scruff things up a little, just to get a little closer to the organic feel of lead type.
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