Bitstream Releases Its Fifth Set of Fonts from the New Font Collection Program.Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 Release Includes Nine New Display and Text Fonts, Including Four Bitstream Exclusives, From International Designers Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) announced today that it is releasing its fifth set of fonts from the New Font Collection program. The new release features display and text fonts from designers Nick Curtis, Charles Curtis, Charles, 1860–1936, Vice President of the United States (1929–33), b. near North Topeka, Kans. Of part Native American background, Curtis lived for three years on a Kaw reservation. Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
All the fonts will be available in PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats for both Windows and the Macintosh. All fonts are available for purchase: -- Drescher Grotesk Light, Book, Roman, and Demi by Nicolai Gogoll -- FM Black Cherry Moon(TM), Alternate, Ligature, and Doubles by Bitstream announced the New Font Collection (NFC NFC abbr. National Football Conference ) program in August of 2000. The current Bitstream Typeface Library has been a mainstay of the graphic design community for 20 years. Bitstream felt the time had come to begin a new collection of typefaces, not only to add fonts to the library but, more importantly, to seek out designs from both new and established designers. To that end, Bitstream established the New Font Collection program. The following typefaces are featured in the Spring 2002 release: -- Drescher Grotesk Light, Book, Roman, and Demi by Nicolai Gogoll -- FM Black Cherry Moon(TM), Alternate, Ligature, and Doubles by Charles Gibbons & Mary Trafton -- Steppin' Out Steppin' Out or Stepping Out may refer to: Theater
"So far, the NFC has released 55 new typefaces from international designers," said Jim Lyles, Director of Typographic Development at Bitstream and designer of a variety of fonts, including the Prima Sans font family A set of fonts of the same typeface in assorted sizes, including bold, italic and bold italic variations. . "It's a great pleasure, with this new release, to extend families of fonts we have already established. Nicolai Gogoll has added four new fonts to his Drescher Grotesk family, completing his award-winning revival of Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk. Charles Gibbons & Mary Trafton have added four new faces to their Full Moon Suite, a repertoire of casual, yet expressive designs. Nick Curtis complements his previously released Picayune Picayune (pĭkəy  n`), city (1990 pop. 10,633), Pearl River co., S Miss., near the Pearl River and the La. line; inc. 1904. Intelligence(TM) with the equally quirky and lively Steppin' Out
typeface. We continue to receive inspired designs and look forward to
receiving new submissions for this very successful program."About the Designers Nick Curtis is a graphic designer with over thirty years of experience in print, A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and , broadcast television and the Web. He has been passionately interested in typography ever since he discovered a type specimen book in his early teens. A prolific type designer, Steppin' Out is Mr. Curtis' second release with Bitstream. A stylish, Deco-inspired typeface, Steppin' Out is packed full of quirky nuances and lively design. Charles Gibbons and Mary Trafton's Full Moon Suite is an open-ended, collaborative design project. All of the typefaces under this banner will be called after "folk" names for full moons. FM Black Cherry black cherry, n See wild cherry. black cherry prunusserotina. Moon, Alternate, Ligature Two or more typeface characters that are designed as a single unit (physically touch). Fi, ffi, ae and oe are common ligatures. , and Doubles are the latest editions. The first two that Bitstream previously released, FM Rustling Branches Moon and FM Falling Leaves Moon, are casual lettering styles developed by Ms. Trafton and brought to typographic life by Mr. Gibbons. Bitstream has also previously published Aphasia aphasia (əfā`zhə), language disturbance caused by a lesion of the brain, making an individual partially or totally impaired in his ability to speak, write, or comprehend the meaning of spoken or written words. , another typeface designed by Mr. Gibbons. Nicolai Gogoll was born in Hamburg, Germany, and began to study design in 1991 at the Fachhochschule Hamburg. In 1999, Mr. Gogoll was awarded the Kurt Christians Award for his successful revival of Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk. Drescher Grotesk, named in honor of the designer, is a sturdy German geometric design, consisting of seven roman weights, including a version designed for use at small point sizes. Four weights are offered with this release: Light, Book, Roman, and Demi. Bitstream previously released Semi-Bold, Bold, and Small Sizes. About Bitstream Bitstream Inc. (Nasdaq:BITS) is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc(R) and Font Fusion Bitstream Font Fusion is a small, fast, object-oriented font engine written in ANSI C capable of rendering high-quality text on any platform, any device, and at any resolution. The entire source code is portable, optimized, and executes independent of operating system and processor. (TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless and handheld devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. , and printers. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Building on this experience, Bitstream is currently developing ThunderHawk(TM), a breakthrough technology for the wireless Web. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at http://www.bitstream.com. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and ThunderHawk are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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