
It does more type trading and licensing than type creation, although Steve Matteson has contributed fairly well to their new typefaces. Khmer SBBIC (2011) is a Khmer font at Open Font Library. Their South Asian fonts cover Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, and include Ascender Uni, Ascender UniDuo and Arial Unicode for general use across all Indic languages, and, in particular, the Microsoft fonts Vrinda (Bengali), Mangal (Devanagari), Shruti (Gujarati), Raavi (Gurmukhi), Tunga (Kannada), Kartika (Malayalam), Latha (Tamil) and Gautami (Telugu). In October 2005, Ascender announced the development of Convection, a font used for Xbox 360 video games. Also in 2005, they started distributing Y&Y's Lucida family. Ascender's version of the CJK font Heiti is called ASC Heiti. They also started selling and licensing IBM's Heisei family of Japanese fonts in April 2005: Heisei Kaku Gothic, Heisei Maru Gothic and Heisei Mincho. In April 2005, Ascender announced that it would start selling the Microsoft font collection, which is possibly their most popular collection to date. Their typefaces include Endurance (2004, Steve Matteson, an "industrial strength" Grotesk designed to compete with Helvetica and Arial it supports Greek, Cyrillic and East European languages). On December 8, 2010, Ascender was acquired by Monotype for 10.2 million dollars.

Also included in this group are Josh Hadley, Brian Kraimer, Jim Ford (since 2005), and Jeff Finger (as Chief Research Scientist, since 2006). Its founders are Steve Matteson (type designer, formerly with Agfa/Monotype), Thomas Rickner (of Microsoft fame, where he hinted many Microsoft families), Ira Mirochnick (founder and President of Monotype Typography Inc in 1989 (where he was until 2000) and a Senior Vice President and director of Agfa Monotype Corporation (2000-2003), a self-proclaimed expert in font licensing issues and IP protection), and Bill Davis (most recently the Vice President of Marketing for Agfa Monotype). It rose from the ashes of a major fire at Agfa/Monotype at the end of 2003. Įlk Grove Village, IL-based company established in 2004, which specializes in font development, licensing and IP protection. He also made English with Indian Rupee (2003).
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Ĭreator of free Punjabi typewriter typefaces in 2009: Ariv Mdr, Ariv Ndr. įree truetype fonts (ISFOG family) for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya. This font was used in the GNU freefont project for the Devanagari range (U+0900-U+097F). These were later changed to VelthuisDevanagari8-Regular, VelthuisDevanagari9-Regular and VelthuisDevanagari10-Regular.

The font names: TeX-dvng10, TeX-dvng9, TeX-dvng8. In 2003-2004, additional updates in the set of 22 Metafont files are due to Kevin Carmody, who presently maintains the package. These outline renderings ( Type 1) were automatically converted from METAFONT by Peter Szabo's TeXtrace, and subsequently edited using George Williams' PfaEdit PostScript font editor by Anshuman Pandey (University of Washington). Primoz Peterlin made type 1 outlines based on this. Later, Anshuman Pandey took over the maintenance of font. Pandey also developed a LaTeX package for Gurmukhi/Punjabi, which uses a metafont he generated (with permission) from Hardip Singh Pannu's Punjabi truetype font.įrans Velthuis (Groningen University) developed a Devanagari Metafont in 1991, which is on the CTAN archive. The Washington Romanized (WNRI) Indic package enables texts encoded in the 8-bit Classical Sanskrit/Classical Sanskrit eXtended (CS/CSX) encoding to be typeset in \TeX without modification of the input scheme.

He also created wnri, a METAFONT set of fonts for Old English, Indic languages in transcription, and American Indian languages. Īnshuman Pandey (University of Washington, Seattle) made a Bengali METAFONT. Ĭreator of the free calligraphic style Gurmukhi font Prabhki (2009). Small Punjabi font archive: Amrit-Lipi2, TERAFONT-AMRITA (by Terabyte Computer Academy), AnmolLipi, PUN-AdhunikB-Bold, PUN-AdhunikN, Sukhmani (by Narinder Singh Chadha). TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
