AscenderFonts

Here is a good story at Graphic Arts Online about font licensing, and the intrinsic value of fonts, by note author and pre-press consultant Brian P. Lawler...

Matthew Carter, the original designer of the Georgia and Verdana fonts, has teamed with Ascender Corp and The Font Bureau to develop new and improved versions of these popular font families...

Microsoft's Verdana font family was designed by Matthew Carter and hinted by Ascender's Tom Rickner. It is a sturdy, legible sans serif with an affable appearance...

Ascender is offering web font licenses to our customers who want deploy rich typography on their websites. EOT Lite offers a solution for web designers today...

Ascender is pleased to announce another weight of the Droid font family. We have completed work on a "Pro" version of Droid Sans Mono Bold font containing OpenType features such as old style figures and a slashed zero. Droid Sans Pro Mono Bold font can be instantly downloaded from AscenderFonts.com

Type designers have a variety of tools they can use to create a font...

The www.AscenderFonts.com site is getting a major upgrade in the next few weeks, including the ability for designers to purchase web fonts licenses for fonts in the EOT Lite format. You can read the press release here: http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/2009-07-15/

There are some amazing things you can do with OpenType fonts! Our newest font, Rebus Script, was quite the challenge to develop because of its sophisticated use of Contextual Alternates...

OK, maybe we're a bit partial to the Zune because the Ascender team helped create the fonts for the Zune. But you have to admit when you look at the UI fonts, the Zune HD does look sweet... Read the CNet article on the Zune HD vs. iPod Touch

File this under "Creative Endeavors"? Or "Too Much Free Time"? Regardless, you have to hand it to Rhett Dashwood for his work going through Google Maps to find the letters A to Z in satelite images. Rhett is a creative director at Wade Studios in Melbourne, Australia...

Ascender's Type Director, Steve Matteson, wrote an article for ENLASO Corporation on font considerations for multilingual documents. ENLASO provides translation and localization services to enterprises. Steve highlights some of key font and typographic issues...

Friar Pro fonts available for both PC and Mac OS X at AscenderFonts.com - Try and buy Friar Pro fonts in OpenType or TrueType. Instantly download Friar Pro fonts.

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice