Agfa Monotype Debuts Six Foundries, Adding Over 1,000 Products to Fonts.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WILMINGTON, Mass. & SALFORDS, SURREY, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2003--Agfa Monotype monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. monotype or monoprint In art printmaking, a technique prized because of its unique textural qualities. Corp. has introduced collections from six type foundries, adding over 1,000 fonts and font packages to Fonts.com. The releases from Burghal Burgh´al a. 1. Belonging to a burgh. Design, Classic Font Company, Identikal Foundry, Ingrimayne, Process Type Foundry, and Typadelic are the most recent of several foundry installments. The collections can be viewed at www.fonts.com/foundries. "Releasing over 4,500 fonts in less than a year is a major accomplishment," said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Agfa Monotype. "These new collections simply enhance our unrivaled selection of high-quality typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
Burghal Design features the works of type designer and former punk rock photographer, Kate Peters. She describes her designs as "obsessively original." Most fitting to this description is Vamp(TM), an angular display face that suggests a nasty disposition. The 22 Burghal fonts and font packages are available in Macintosh(R) PostScript(R), Macintosh TrueType(R) and Windows(R) TrueType formats. The Classic Font Company offers a selection of script and decorative designs including several ornament ornament, in architecture ornament, in architecture, decorative detail enhancing structures. Structural ornament, an integral part of the framework, includes the shaping and placement of the buttress, cornice, molding, ceiling, and roof and the capital and fonts, all from designer Tony Nash. Savoy(TM) is a blackletter family that includes a series of intricately drawn initial capital letters. The 14 font packages from Classic Font Company are available for Macintosh and Windows platforms in PostScript and TrueType formats. The Identikal foundry boasts a wide range of display designs. The sleek and modern Stak(TM) family features an unorthodox x-height that is equal in size to the typeface's cap height. The 384 Identikal fonts and font packages are available in Macintosh PostScript, Windows PostScript and Windows TrueType formats. With 505 fonts and font packages, designer Robert Schenk's Ingrimayne foundry represents the most extensive font offering of the new collections on Fonts.com. Ingriana(TM), one of Schenk's most popular faces, is a five-font serif Short horizontal lines added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman. Contrast with sans-serif.  family with an air of friendliness and informality. Ingrimayne fonts are available for Macintosh and Windows platforms in PostScript and TrueType formats. Process Type Foundry is home to the original works of designer Eric Olson Eric Olson may refer to
adj. 1. Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting. 2. Plainly discernible; apparent: legible weaknesses in character and disposition. sans serif inspired by the mechanical lettering kits used by draftsmen and amateur sign makers. The 36 Process Type fonts are available in Macintosh PostScript, Windows PostScript and Windows TrueType formats. Founded by designer Ronna Penner, the Typadelic foundry offers a variety of display faces that can be described as fun and playful. Among Typadelic's numerous handwriting fonts is Sweet Pea sweet pea, annual climbing plant (Lathyrus odoratus) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), a legume native to S Europe but, since its introduction to horticulture c.1700, widely cultivated for its fragrant flowers. (TM), a casual face based on Penner's own penmanship. The 30 Typadelic fonts and font packages are available for Macintosh and Windows platforms in PostScript and TrueType formats. About Fonts.com As the Internet's most comprehensive and convenient place to preview, purchase and download fonts, Fonts.com offers single fonts, packages, family volumes and type libraries, including both the Monotype(R) and ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → (R) libraries, sources for such widely used designs as Arial(R) and ITC Officina(R). Visitors are greeted with clear navigation and multiple search options in addition to articles, tips, techniques and tutorials. Live customer care representatives are available to assist in identifying and selecting typefaces and to resolve technical font issues. Fonts.com also provides information about Agfa Monotype's custom font services, including customized fonts for brand identity projects. About Agfa Monotype Corp. Based in Wilmington, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Japan and China, Agfa Monotype specializes in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The company also provides printer drivers, imaging technologies and integration services for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Agfa Corp. based in Ridgefield Park Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods. , N.J. and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa is the U.S. subsidiary of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems primarily for the graphic imaging, healthcare, non-destructive testing, micrographic mi·cro·graph n. 1. A drawing or photographic reproduction of an object as viewed through a microscope. 2. An instrument used to make tiny writing or engraving. , and consumer desktop and photography markets. Headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium, Agfa has 40 national sales organizations globally, with worldwide sales of 4.683 billion euros in 2002. Additional information about Agfa Monotype and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.agfamonotype.com, www.fonts.com, and www.agfamonotype.co.uk. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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