![]() Their brand value took a hit when they started selling scrapbook, handwriting and wedding fonts under the name. 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. ![]() įree truetype fonts (ISFOG family) for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Gujarati, Tamil, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya. Pune, India-based designer of a techno Malayalam typeface in 2016. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on ![]()
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