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MyFonts’ review: Ascender Corporation, from just north of Chicago, is a team of experts in type design and font development with long experience of working with Microsoft, Apple and major publishers. Indeed they helped to develop the core fonts used by millions (or is it billions?) every day in Microsoft Office and on the web. The well-known fonts include Arial, Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Tahoma, Trebuchet, Georgia, and Verdana. Now, by offering these fonts for retail sale, Ascender now makes them available in PostScript format – something many graphic designers desire. Also, some of the fonts that were not so widely distributed get worldwide exposure: we’re delighted that Matthew Carter’s Nina (essentially Verdana Condensed) is now on sale. As are Curlz and Old English Text. The fonts all exist in TrueType format with “hinting” of the very highest standard. In other words, at those all-important tiny sizes, each and every pixel rendered by the font has been approved by a type designer. Such fonts are ideal for system interfaces, intensive text editing and prolonged reading. If you care about multilingual issues, the TrueType versions are some of the most capable fonts in terms of language coverage ever created. Naturally these super-hinted, polyglot fonts are priced higher, reflecting their extra development.

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Biography

Ascender Corporation specializes in font design, development and licensing. Ascender is comprised of veterans of the type industry who have worked at Monotype, Apple, and other publishing industry leaders. The team at Ascender Corporation developed Arial, Times New Roman, Tahoma, Verdana and many of the other fonts that Microsoft ships in Windows and Office. We now offer all these fonts under license from Microsoft for immediate download.

Ascender also provides multilingual, custom font development for corporations and software & hardware developers.

The Ascender team brings its clients a wide range of talent, expertise, imagination and initiative. We share a passion for type and typographic problem solving and have extensive knowledge of software engineering, Unicode® and world language support.

Ascender has also created a range of interesting new original designs. The Ascender originals range from rich OpenType handwriting fonts such as Lindsey Pro to Chicory, a beautiful new calligraphic typeface.

Volume Discounts Available

Save money by purchasing multiple Ascender Corp. packages at the same time. The more packages you purchase, the better your discount:

Note: volume discounts do not apply to packages that are further discounted under limited-time promotions.

Further Details

Suite 225, 25 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
USA

Phone: 847-357-0730
Fax: 847-357-0731

Web site: http://www.AscenderFonts.com/

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