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Bitstream Highlights Expressive Side of Typeface Design With Express Yourself Fun Packs for Macintosh and Windows.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 18, 1999--

New font collections targeted for graphic designers, small

business professionals, and home computer users

Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) announced today the availability of Express Yourself(TM) Fun Packs, six new font collections that represent the lighter, more expressive typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif
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  • Aldus
  • Antiqua
  • Aster
  • Baskerville
  • Bell (Monotype) Didone classification serif type deisgned by Richard Austin, 1788
  • Bembo
  • Benguiat
 from the Bitstream Typeface Library. Each collection features ten uniquely related fonts that can add personality, professionalism, and quality to a document or design.

There are six Express Yourself Fun Packs being introduced. They include:

- Holiday and Decorative - perfect for newsletters, invitations, and greeting card designs

- Signposts - ideal for school projects and signs on-the-fly

- Sci-Fi - for the science fiction enthusiast and out-of-this-world designs

- Outrageously Giddy - for adding humor to any project, design, or personal correspondence

- Invitations with Elegance - tailored for small print shops, wedding consultants, and party planners

- Letters, Faxes and Memos - suited for small or home office user seeking a professional flair

Acclaimed for high quality and typographic See typography.  authenticity, the Bitstream Typeface Library contains first-class cuts of hundreds of Fontek, ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium

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, and other classic typeface designs, as well as Bitstream Originals, WGL WGL - Waveform Generation Language 4 fonts, and Bitstream Bar Code fonts. Each Express Yourself Fun Pack has been hand-selected from the Bitstream Typeface Library by Bitstream type professionals, to provide easy-to-use and attractively-priced collections.

"The lighter, expressive side of typefaces is often over-looked by graphic designers, small business professionals, and home computer users," said Paul Trevithick This article is and to meet Wikipedia's , may require a , wikifying and categorization.
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, president of Bitstream. "The Express Yourself collections emphasize the unique design aspects of many typefaces in the Bitstream Typeface Library. We want to show that fonts have personality, and it can lend that personality to make better designs and more professional documents."

The Express Yourself Fun Packs are available for Macintosh and Windows. The suggested retail price of each Fun Pack is $39.95. Discounts are available with the purchase of multiple Fun Packs. For more information about purchasing this product, please call 1-800-522-3668. For more information about the Express Yourself Fun Packs, as well as other font collections and utilities from Bitstream, please visit our Web site at www.bitstream.com.

About Bitstream, the Internet Font Company

Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS), headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation).
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States.
, is a leading developer of type technology, digital typefaces, and type customization services for the graphics communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Bitstream licenses its WebFont(TM), TrueDoc(R), and T2K T2K Tempest 2000 (game; sequel to Tempest)
T2K Time 2 Kill (gaming clan) 
(TM) font portability and rendering technology to hundreds of industry-leading Internet, Web, and publishing software applications developers, as well as to manufacturers of computers, printers, set-top boxes, and other devices. Bitstream has been awarded several patents that cover aspects of creating subsetted fonts, managing and rendering portable font objects, and using portable fonts for Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. . Bitstream also offers on-demand marketing software through its 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.
, Pageflex Inc. For more information on Bitstream and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.bitstream.com.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Express Yourself, WebFont and T2K are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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