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Choose a typeface you like and click on the orange ʻBuy this fontʼ button. You will be offered the option to select individual typefaces or complete packages, different font formats, and different font encodings. Add your purchases to your shopping basket, check-out and choose one of the payment methods.

Alternatively, you can go to our comprehensive product list and select the fonts there.

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The main variables that affect the price of a font are: the number of selected styles, number of users, and selected format. For example, our OpenType Std fonts are € 90 per style, while a PostScript font costs only € 60 (single user licenses). (Thatʼs because there are about 5 times as many glyphs in OpenType Std as in a PostScript font). Ordering several styles multiplies this amount, so sometimes it is cheaper to get a complete package of fonts. Licenses for multiple users are naturally more expensive than licenses for single users (but are substantially cheaper than multiple licenses for single users).

We provide volume discounts when buying more font packages at the same time.

We created a Font License Calculator that will calculate the final price (including possible discounts) for you, and email you a quote.

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The easiest and fastest way to pay is by credit card. There are also a number of online payment methods available, specific for each country. Dutch customers can also use iDeal. If you donʼt have a credit card, we recommend first requesting an invoice from us, then making a direct bank transfer (bank wire).

At the moment we donʼt accept PayPal.

Please donʼt send money before getting an invoice from us first. We do not accept checks.

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Fonts are software, which means that everyone who uses them needs to have a license. If a designer is making a poster for a client, it is the designer (end user), not the client, who needs to buy a font license. If clients wish to use the fonts as well, then they too need to buy their own licenses.

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We offer the option to upgrade either smaller font packages to larger ones, or upgrade single-computer licenses to multiple-computer licenses. For example, you can buy a single computer license for Fedra Sans Light now for € 60, and upgrade it to a complete package for the total price of the package minus € 60. Likewise, if you upgrade the same font from a single-computer license to a multiple-computer license, you will be credited the amount you have already paid.

You can also upgrade previously licensed fonts (PostScript or TrueType) to OpenType. Or upgrade OpenType Std to OpenType Pro by paying the difference in price. All upgrades can be done directly from your account: go to your previous orders, and click on the upgrade link.

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Either way, our pricing policy is designed so that you will never pay more for fonts even when you buy them one by one. Please ask if you have more questions.

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As a company registered in the Netherlands, Typotheque is obligated to charge Value Added Tax (VAT) on our sales and services within the European Union (EU). If your billing address is outside of the EU, we donʼt charge the VAT tax. If your company resides in the EU, but has a registered VAT number, than you can save your VAT number in your personal information; if the number is recognised, we will not charge the 19% Dutch VAT. Please note that you have to do this before placing the order, as we canʼt return the VAT later.

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A company registered in the EU can avoid paying 19% Dutch VAT tax by providing the VAT number in your personal information in your account.

If you entered your VAT number, but the number was not accepted, it is probably not a valid VAT number. Typotheque uses a service of the European Commissionʼs Taxation and Customs Union Directorate-General. You can check if your VAT number is verifiable on their website. In some rare cases, the EC website is down and the number canʼt be verified. In such cases, please try again later.

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Typotheque works with two font distributors: MyFonts and FontShop, but they only sell Typothequeʼs older typefaces in PostScript and TrueType format. If you need the fonts in OpenType, or if you need the latest typefaces, you can get them directly from Typotheque.

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Fonts purchased online are licensed to the buyer, who has of course read the End User License Agreement, and agreed to the licensing conditions. You canʼt buy a font on someone elseʼs behalf; the end user must buy it directly.  When orders are processed, personalised license agreements specifying the licensing conditions are issued.

If your client, colleague or a friend needs a font, ask them to buy their license directly through our website.

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Typotheque offers volume discounts on font orders. When you select a complete package of our fonts, the price is significantly lower than when buying these fonts separately.

We also offer discounts when the total price of the order exceeds € 1,000. For orders between €1,000 and €1,500, we offer a 10% volume discount. For orders between €1,500 and €2,000, the discount is 15%; for orders over € 2,000, it is 20%. Contact us for pricing for over € 3,000.

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Because of security limits, we can only process online orders for a maximum of €1,999. If you need to order products for more than €2,000, you can either split up the order into several smaller ones, or request an invoice and pay by direct bank transfer.

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Downloadable fonts are not returnable. If a font is defective and you notify us within 30 days, we will provide a replacement.

If you purchase the wrong version of a font (Mac/Windows/OpenType, TrueType/PostScript, Western/CE/Cyrillic/Greek) and tell us within 7 days, we will switch your order to the correct version at no charge.

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For all orders, we issue PDF invoices. Copies of the invoices are stored in your account, and you can print them at any time. If you require a paper invoice, let us know. If you require the invoice in a different language, you can change the settings in your personal information. 

If you prefer to receive an invoice and pay by bank transfer, please let us know before placing the order.

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As a company registered in the Netherlands all our prices and invoices are in Euros. For your convenience there is an option to convert the price of products to other currencies. These converted prices are for your information only; the invoice will be issued in Euros.

For latest conversion rates check this website.

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We offer permanent back up of your purchased fonts on our server. Just log in to download them at any time. We donʼt send the fonts on CD.

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In some rare cases we issue discount codes. We issue them mainly as compensation when something goes wrong with an order. If you have a discount code, enter it before checking out.

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Sometimes, a valid order attempt is refused by our credit card processing company (Bibit). This happens especially to our US-based clients. The card issuing bank is trying to protect the customer (you) by blocking the card when it is used overseas. Ringing your bank and asking for payment authorisation usually helps. Alternatively use a different credit card.

If the order is still being refused, we suggest making a direct bank transfer. Email us your order details, and we issue a Proforma invoice with all our bank details. Bank transfer takes a few days, so please allow for the delays.

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Typotheque works with two shipping partners: Dutch Postal Service (operated by TNT), and UPS. Dutch post is generally cheaper, but has longer shipping times and does not provide live parcel tracking. UPS offers several shipping options, all of which offer tracking and insurance.

If you prefer to use your own courier account (FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc.) please contact us before placing your order.

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Only packages shipped with UPS are trackable. Log in to your account and go to Previous Orders, where you can track the parcel.

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Postal service is more reliable than it may at first seem. In more than 10 years of operation, Typotheque has only had a very few packages lost. If your order is important, please plan sufficient delivery time. The pre-holiday season in particular is very hectic for the post, and many packages are delayed.

Please do get in touch if you placed an order 30 days ago, and still haven’t received the package.

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In a few rare cases packages are returned because the postal service was unable to deliver the package. If the shipping address provided by you at the time of the order was incorrect and the package was returned to us, we will ship it again, but a second shipping charge will apply.

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Like most software, fonts too come with terms of use called an End User License Agreement (EULA). Each software developer has its own terms of use, and the EULA specifies what is and is not allowed when using the fonts. For example, the Typotheque EULA specifies that you can use licensed fonts for an unlimited amount of time, but you cannot give the fonts to people who donʼt have a license to use our fonts. You must agree to the EULA before buying and using the fonts.

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Fonts are software, which means that everyone who uses them needs to have a license (EULA). If a designer is doing graphics work for a client, it is the designer (end user), not the client, who needs to buy a font license. If clients wish to use the fonts as well, then they too need to buy their own licenses.

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An existing font license can be extended to any number of users. The price already paid will be subtracted from the total price, thus it doesnʼt matter if you buy a multiple-user license right away or later. You can upgrade to license more users directly from your account. Log in, go to Previous Orders, and click on the Upgrade link.

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Please read our End User License Agreement - it is a legally binding document. The main points of the license are:

1/ The standard license allows only a single user to use the fonts. If more users plan to use the fonts, you need to upgrade the license to cover multiple users.

2/ By buying the license you only buy the right to use the fonts. The fonts themselves remain the exclusive property of Typotheque.

3/ You can back up the font data (in fact your Typotheque online account is a back-up of the latest versions of the fonts), but you may not modify the fonts in any way.

4/ If the fonts donʼt work, we replace them.

5/ You canʼt create other fonts based on our fonts. You also cannot create versions of them and sell or rent them.

6/ You need a special license if you plan to embed the fonts in games or software.

7/ You can embed fonts into PDF and Flash files for free, but you must set embedding settings to prevent font extraction.

8/ Typotheque fonts are copyrighted and protected by trademark.

9/ If you violate these terms, this agreement will be cancelled.

10/ You may transfer the font license to a third party if he agrees to the licensing conditions in writing and you destroy the copies of fonts (and confirm it in writing too).

11/ We canʼt guarantee that the fonts will be appropriate for your projects.

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As a licensed user of Typotheque fonts you can use the fonts for all your projects as long as you comply with the license agreement. There is no limit to the media used; you can use it in print, in video, on a website, etc.You canʼt however distribute the fonts to third parties, so putting the actual font data on a web server where others would have access to the fonts is strictly prohibited. Instead, you can create PNG, GIF or JPG images to upload.

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There is no restriction on the number of copies you create with the licensed fonts, so you can create a single print or millions of prints.

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There are no time restrictions for using the fonts, so you can use them as long as you wish.

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You can create backup copies of the fonts. We recommend, however, that you use our online backup. You can download the purchased fonts via your Typotheque account at any time.

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We donʼt allow modifications of our fonts, but we are open to user requests and can make some font modifications for you for a small fee.

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You may transfer a previously purchased font license to a third party, if the third party agrees to our EULA in writing and you (original licensee) destroy all copies of the fonts and confirm this in writing too.

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Typothequeʼs standard license agreement is only valid for a single location. If users within one company need to use the fonts in their offices at various locations, they need to extend their license. To calculate the price of multiple users on multiple locations, we multiply the base price by factors determined by the number of users and the number of locations. For example, a single-user license of a single OpenType Std font for one location is € 90. A two-user license for a single location is  € 90 × 1.25 (multiple user factor). A two-user license for two locations is € 90 × 1.25 (multiple user factor) × 1.5 (multiple locations factor) = €168.75.

If a different company needs to use the same fonts, they need to buy their own font license.

1 location  Ã— 1

2 locations Ã— 1.5

3 locations Ã— 2

4 locations Ã— 2.5

5 locations Ã— 3

6-10 locations Ã— 4

10-20 locations Ã— 5

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Typotheque offers volume discounts for font orders. When you purchase a complete package of our fonts, the price is automatically lower than when buying these fonts separately.

We also offer discounts when the total price of the order exceeds €1,000. For orders between €1,000 and €1,500, we offer a 10% volume discount. For orders between €1,500 and €2,000, the discount is 15%, and for orders over €2,000, it is 20%. Contact us for pricing for over € 3,000.

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When you output your job, the easiest method is to send PDF or PostScript files to the printer, as this eliminates the need for the printer to use the fonts. If your printer or service bureau needs to work with the fonts, they also need to acquire their own license. However, rather than charging the full price of the fonts again, we offer a 50% discount on our service bureau license. Since the service bureau license is an extension of an existing customerʼs license, it is valid only for the output of that customerʼs jobs.

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You can use our fonts to create websites, but since visitors may not have the same fonts installed, you will need to convert the fonts to images (GIF, JPG or PNG) so that the pages display as you intend. You can also use the fonts in Flash websites.

Uploading the font data to web servers is strictly prohibited, as the fonts become freely available to unlicensed third parties. You can however use Typotheque Web Font Service to use the fonts online.

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The embedding of fonts in PDF documents in documents is allowed provided that the extraction of the fonts is prohibited.

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You can upgrade your current font license to cover more users at any time. For example, you can first buy a single user license for your office to get a good idea if it fits your purposes, then upgrade the license to cover all users in your office later. The price paid for the single user will be deducted from the price of the multiple-user license. Log in to your account, go to Previous Orders and click on the Upgrade button.

We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.

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If you previously purchased a PostScript or a TrueType font, and now need the OpenType version, you can upgrade it. Instead of paying for it again, you pay only the difference in price. OpenType fonts are more expensive as they include more characters, support more languages, and include advanced typographic layout features. Log in to your account, go to Previous Orders and click on the Upgrade button.

We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.

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If you previously purchased a license for an OpenType Std font (support for Latin-based languages only) and now need the OpenType Pro version (support also for Greek, Greek polytonic, Cyrillic and Vietnamese) you can simply upgrade the fonts. Rather than paying for the fonts again, you will only pay the difference in price. Log in to your account, go to Previous Orders and click on the Upgrade button.

We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.

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Complete packages of fonts are significantly discounted. While a single style of a PostScript font costs €60, a complete Fedra Sans Pro package with 35 styles costs only €520. If you previously purchased a single style of a font and now wish to use the complete package you can simply upgrade the single style to a complete package. Rather than paying for the fonts which you already have, you will pay only the difference in price. Log in to your account, go to Previous Orders and click on the Upgrade button.

We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.

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We occasionally publish updates of our existing fonts. These updates are often improvements such as additional language support, additional glyphs, or improved kerning. Existing users are notified of major updates by email so they can download the fonts directly from their accounts.

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Typotheque has more than a decade of experience in designing custom type. Custom type may include modifications of our retail fonts, creation of different language versions of our fonts (Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc), or entirely new fonts made to fit your needs. When we quote for a custom typeface project, the price consists of two components: 1) development cost of the typeface, which we calculate based on the estimated time required. 2) the licensing fee, which is determined by the clientʼs wish. There are three different licensing possibilities: a non-exclusive license (the custom typeface can be used by other people), a partially exclusive license (fonts are exclusive only for a limited period of time, e.g. 2 or 5 years), or an exclusive license (clients buys out the rights to the fonts). In general, we recommend partial exclusivity, as it is the most economic solution. As with everything in life, visual identities tend to change, so buying all rights to a typeface forever is rather costly if the fonts will not be used after a few years.

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In specific cases we can modify the fonts. Imagine that a certain font is perfect for your situation, but you require a different letter ʻgʼ or ʻ&ʼ glyph. Typotheque can design and implement alternatives based on your needs. In addition to the cost of the standard license which you have probably already paid, you will be also charged the costs of the modifications. Please do get in touch to discuss your needs.

Since fonts are protected by copyright law and license agreements, we canʼt modify other type foundriesʼ fonts. In such cases please contact the copyright holder and ask them for modifications.

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If you only work with Latin-based languages (e.g. English, French, Polish, Czech or Turkish) you only need OpenType Std fonts. If you also need support of Vietnamese, Russian or Greek, than you need OpenType Pro fonts. Both versions include small caps, and advanced typographic features; the only difference is in the number of supported languages. While OpenType Std fonts include over 1,000 glyphs and support 48 languages, OpenType Pro versions include over 2,000 glyphs and support over 80 languages.

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Since the OpenType font format allows more than 65,000 characters to reside within a single font file, there is now no need to have separate fonts for small capitals when using an OpenType-savvy application such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator or PhotoShop. Instead of selecting a different font, the user needs only to activate the Small Cap feature.

For example, in Adobe applications select the text, then go to the Character menu and select Small Caps, or use the keyboard shortcut, Command+Shift+H. This option replaces only lowercase letters and the minus symbol. Note that there is a second option, which is Character > OpenType > All Small Caps. This replaces both lowercase and uppercase letters, and also activates punctuation modified to match the small capsʼ height.

In Apple software such as TextEdit or the iWork suite, OpenType features can be accessed from the Advanced popup menu in the Fonts floating window. Go to Format > Font > Show Fonts, click on the font name, then click on the gear icon at the bottom of the floating window and select Typography… to display the features available for the selected font.

In Mellel, OpenType features can be accessed from the popup menu in the Character Appearance palette.

The small caps feature and other advanced OpenType features donʼt work in older software such QuarkXPress 6, FreeHand or Word.

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Many of the special characters are activated by turning on the appropriate features in your application. For example, you can select a segment of text and convert it to small caps or to superior letters without having to retype it. Or if you activate a ligature feature, it automatically replaces combining letter pairs with ligatures, so in a name like ʻKafkaʼ, the letter combination ʻfkʼ would be recognized and replaced with the ʻfkʼ ligature. Some OpenType substitutions are programmed to work in certain positions – e.g. some special swash or alternate glyph forms automatically appear only at the beginning or at the end of a word. See more in-depth OpenType feature instructions, or consult the PDF that came with your downloaded fonts.

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While all OpenType fonts will work in nearly all existing software, only some applications take full advantage of the OpenType advanced layout features. Applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, QuarkXPress 7 (and higher) and Mellel offer an interface for controlling the OpenType features.

Other applications such QuarkXpress 6, FreeHand and Word only offer access to the first 256 glyphs of the fonts, ignoring the others. Fedra Sans Pro for example include 2,233 glyphs, so you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.

See a detailed table of supported OpenType features in various applications.

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While all OpenType fonts will work in nearly all existing software, only some applications take full advantage of OpenTypeʼs advanced layout features. Applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, QuarkXPress 7 (and higher) and Mellel offer an interface for controlling the OpenType features.

Other applications such as QuarkXpress 6, FreeHand and Word only offer access to the first 256 glyphs of the fonts, ignoring the others. Fedra Sans Pro, for example, includes 2,233 glyphs, so you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.

It is preferable to use PostScript fonts in such older applications.

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OTF - OpenType Fonts

PS - PostScript fonts

TTF - TrueType fonts

Std - OpenType Standard encoding

Pro - OpenType Pro encoding

TF - Tabular Figures

LF - Lining Figures

OsF - Old Style Figures

SC - Small Capitals

CE - Central European

GR - Greek

CY - Cyrillic

AR - Arabic

Office - Special Screen-Optimised fonts

Multiscript - fonts supporting multiple scripts (e.g. Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic)

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Typotheque Windows fonts files (PC PostScript and PC TrueType) and OpenType fonts are zip file archives. Zip file archives have a file extension of .zip. Recent versions of Windows (XP and 2000) can unpack zip file archives and self-extracting zip files when you right click on the file, and select Extract. Otherwise, use software such as TurboZip, WinZip, or FreeZip to unpack these files.

Mac OS font files (PostScript fonts) are compressed and encoded as .sit files. After downloading .sit file, browser usually extracts the files and places them on the Desktop. However, if you have problems unpacking them, you can download StuffIt Expander at no charge. After installing StuffIt Expander, you can just drag and drop compressed file to extract it.

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1. Make sure that the fonts you want to install are unzipped before you begin.

2. Choose Start > Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts.

3. Right click in the list of fonts and choose ʻInstall New Fontʼ

4. Locate the fonts you want to install.

5. Select the fonts to install. To select more than one font, hold down the CTRL key while you click on the font files. If you accidentally click on a file you do not wish to install, hold down the CTRL key and click on it again to deselect it. To select a list of adjacent fonts to install, select the first font in the list, press the SHIFT key, then select the last font in the list. All of the fonts in between will be selected.

6. Click OK to install the fonts.

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1. Make sure that the fonts you want to install are unzipped before you begin.

2. In versions prior to Windows XP, Choose Start > Settings > Control Panel. In Windows XP, choose Start > Control Panel.

3. Double-click the Fonts folder. If you donʼt see a Fonts folder in Windows XP, please switch the control panel to Classic Mode

4. Choose File > Install New Font.

5. Locate the fonts you want to install.

6. Select the fonts to install. To select more than one font, hold down the CTRL key while you click on the font files. If you accidentally click on a file you do not wish to install, hold down the CTRL key and click on it again to deselect it. To select a list of adjacent fonts to install, select the first font in the list, press the SHIFT key, then select the last font in the list. All of the fonts in between will be selected.

7. To copy the fonts to the Fonts folder, make sure the Copy fonts to the Fonts folder check box is selected. 

8. Click OK to install the fonts.

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1. Close all open applications before installing fonts.

2. In the Finder, open the folder or disk that contains the fonts you want to install. Make sure that they are unzipped.

3. Select the all font files for the fonts you want to install (remember that each PostScript font requires 2 files), then double-click on any selected file. Font Book, the Mac OS font manager, will open a preview window for each font.

4a. Drag each font to the Computer icon in the Collections pane if you want the font to be available to all user accounts on the computer.

4b. Drag each font to the appropriate User icon if you want the font to be available exclusively to that particular user. Alternatively, you can click the ʻInstall Fontʼ button to install the font to the default location specified in Font Book > Preferences.

Fonts located in /UserName/Library/Fonts are available to a particular user, but not to any other users with separate log-ins for the same machine.

Fonts located in /Library/Fonts are available to all local users of the machine.

Fonts installed in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts (during installation of an Adobe application) are only available to Adobe applications. To make them available to other applications, move them to /Library/Fonts or /UserName/Library/Fonts.

If you want fonts to be available to applications running in Classic mode, (available only on older systems) you must install fonts into the Fonts folder inside the System 9 folder. They will be available to both your Classic System 9 applications and your OS X applications.

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p>There have been numerous bugs in font managers such as Suitcase, FontReserve, FontAgent and FontBook, so we canʼt really recommend anything without reservation. The most reliable way is always to install fonts directly to your system. If you absolutely must use a font manager, use Linotype Font Explorer X, which is probably the most reliable font managing software for both Mac and PC. And it is free!

Download it here: www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX

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If you have successfully unpacked and installed the fonts but the fonts are still not available, try the following tips.

1 Some applications need to be restarted after installing new fonts. Quit the application and start it up again to see if the fonts are available.

2 Scan the entire font menu. The font may not be where you expect it to be. For example, in Mac OS X, the order may not be strictly alphabetical; some fonts may appear at the end of the font list.

3 Restart the computer. This simple action often solves a number of mysterious problems.

4 Check a different application to see if the font works there. Some software may have special requirements for font installation, so consult the manual.

5 Reduce the number of installed fonts. Having too many fonts installed can create problems.

6 If you use fonts in Adobe applications (InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator) and the fonts are missing or appear corrupted, search your computer for all copies of the file AdobeFnt.lst (for example, Adobefnt01.lst ... Adobefnt12.lst) and delete them. The easiest method is to search your hard disk for all .lst files. Delete all found files, and then restart the Adobe application.

For more details see this external link:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=322050

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Because most Typotheque fonts come in more than four styles, we donʼt support style linking in the way that Arial or Verdana does. Arial consists of four styles, and clicking on the B icon in your typesetting application changes the font to Bold style. Fedra, however, consists of 10 styles, so clicking the B icon doesnʼt work. Switching to Italic by clicking to I icon works however, as most of our styles contain italics.

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While all OpenType fonts will work in nearly all existing software, only some applications take full advantage of OpenTypeʼs advanced layout features. Applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, QuarkXPress 7 (and higher) and Mellel offer an interface for controlling the OpenType features.

Other applications such as QuarkXpress 6, FreeHand and Word only offer access to the first 256 glyphs of the fonts, ignoring the others. Fedra Sans Pro, for example, includes 2,233 glyphs, so you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.

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QuarkXPress 6 includes a bug that reports that fonts are corrupted when they are not. The bug has been acknowledged by Quark.

www.quark.com/service/desktop/support/techinfo/view.jsp?faq_id=386

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Fedra Sans was released in 2001. Later, when Adobe Creative Suite was released, Adobe engineers decided that all fonts with the style names Regular, Roman, Book, Normal and Upright would be treated as equivalent styles. Our fonts already had 5 weights: Light, Book, Normal, Medium and Bold. Adobeʼs decision forced us to rename the Normal style Demi, otherwise one weight wouldnʼt be available in Adobe applications.

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If you have a problem with Typotheque fonts, try restarting your computer first. We do test our fonts rigorously, so chances are that there is a problem with font installation. If you are using a font manager and the font still doesnʼt work, try installing directly to the system instead.

If the font still doesnʼt work, please do get in touch. Please donʼt forget to mention exactly which fonts you use, how you installed them, which platform you use them on, and which applications they donʼt work in. Providing screenshots from your computer is very helpful.

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We offer fonts in PostScript, TrueType and OpenType formats. When in doubt, select the OpenType font format. OpenType is the only cross-platform format, i.e. the same file will work on both Macintosh and Windows computers.

Furthermore, an OpenType font consists of only a single file and is more convenient to install than the two files which are required for each PostScript font.

Your choice of format also depends on which languages you need to support. Our PostScript and TrueType fonts contain only 256 characters, as opposed to over 1,000 characters for our OpenType Std and over 2,000 characters for our OpenType Pro fonts. With a single OpenType Pro font you can typeset Latin, Greek and Cyrillic text. This is also the reason why our OpenType fonts are more expensive than the other two font formats.

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Briefly, OpenType is a font format jointly developed by Adobe and Microsoft in the late 1990ʼs. It came into wider use only after 2000, when Adobe included support for advanced typographic features in their InDesign, PhotoShop, and Illustrator applications. OpenType fonts support Unicode, which means that a single OpenType font can contain more than 65,000 glyphs. A single font can thus be used for setting various texts, whether in English, Czech, Russian, Greek or Esperanto. OpenType fonts are cross-platform; the same file can be used on Mac and Windows computers, and OpenType fonts should behave consistently on both platforms.

Of course not all OpenType fonts contain thousands of characters. In fact, most of the available OpenType fonts on the market are fonts converted from PostScript and contain only 256 glyphs. Typotheque offers Std and Pro fonts, with wide language support, eight different numeral styles, inferior and superior forms, case sensitive forms, arrows, pictograms, and more.

If you donʼt know what format of fonts to choose, OpenType Std is a safe choice, as it work on both Mac and Windows platforms.

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PostScript or Type 1 fonts were developed by Adobe in 1985 for use with their PostScript printers. Initially, this font technology was available only from Adobe.

PostScript has traditionally been preferred by professional designers, publishers and printers because of the reliability and wider selection of fonts available in this format. PostScript has a clever rasterizing engine, and hinting of the font (screen optimization) is less important than in TrueType since it is taken care of at the system level.

PostScript fonts consist of two parts, a bitmapped screen file, which displays the font on the computer monitor, and a printer file defining the outline curves.

PostScript fonts, which can access only 220 characters, are not compatible with Unicode, and are not cross-platform compatible.

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The TrueType format was jointly developed by Apple and Microsoft in 1991, several years after the release of the PostScript Type 1 font format. Despite its technical superiority (most of the system fonts on both Mac and Windows computers are TrueType) they never became popular amongst designers.

The TrueType format defines curves differently from PostScript fonts, and allows for the rendering of outlines using a hinting process, which improves the appearance of TrueType fonts in low-resolution output devices, such as a computer monitors and low-resolution printers. Hinting uses a powerful set of instructions to achieve superior on-screen legibility similar to that of handmade bitmap fonts, but with the option to scale the fonts to any size. Unfortunately, incorporating hinting into the font is very time-consuming, and only a few fonts take advantage of this technology. As a result, the average TrueType font appears to display with less quality on-screen than the corresponding PostScript one.

At Typotheque we offer special screen-optimized fonts which have been manually hinted, and are marked with the filename extension ʻOfficeʼ. With their high level of legibility, these fonts are excellent choices for reading lengthy texts on screen at small sizes.

TrueType fonts contain both the screen and printer font data in a single file, making the fonts easier to install. A TrueType font can theoretically contain over 65,000 characters, using Unicode standards. In reality, few fonts contain more than 220 extended characters.

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We offer two different kinds of Arabic fonts: Fedra AR (Arabic), which supports only Arabic + Mac Roman set; and Fedra Multiscript, which offers the same Arabic support + full Latin (Western, Turkish, Central, Eastern European), Greek and Cyrillic. Price of one Fedra AR font is €120 euro and Multiscript fonts are priced €160.

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Although the notion of serif/sans serif doesnʼt exist in Arabic typography, we created two different packages for Fedra Sans and Serif. Obviously only the Latin characters are serifed or not; the Arabic glyphs were then designed to match the typographic ʻcolourʼ of the text, so the Sans is slightly heavier than the Serif, because it has lower contrast between the thick and thin parts of the letters.

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In order to use Arabic fonts, you need to use special versions of InDesign, PhotoShop or Illustrator. These versions are labeled ME (Middle Eastern). These ME versions support bi-directional text setting for Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. The regular version of Adobe CS3 doesnʼt support Arabic text setting.

www.winsoft.eu/products_solutions/adobe-products.php

On Mac OSX, Arabic will work on a system level in a web browser, in TextEdit and in the iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers). Mellel for OSX supports Arabic very well, and is a capable and affordable word processor.
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Typotheque fonts support 85 languages, however not every version of every font supports every language. For example if you use English and Czech languages in your document, you need to use the version of the font which supports those two languages. PostScript fonts have limited language support and you would have to use two different PostScript fonts, one with Western and other with Central European encodings. OpenType format simplifies the work, as a single font can support several encodings, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese, Cyrillic or Greek.

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Besides modern Greek, Typotheque Pro fonts support also Greek Polytonic, the pre-reform (or ancient) Greek with its variety of diacritics.

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QuarkXPress® with ArabicXT™ extension from Layout Ltd allows setting Arabic text with AXt fonts. AXt fonts are non-Unicode fonts, using the ‘Mac Roman’ encoding; the Arabic glyphs are placed in place of the Roman glyphs. So for example ‘alef’ resides on the place of capital letter G. The AXt Fonts are designed to work only with ArabicXT, and can contain only 256 glyphs. It is an older format, not supported by other applications.

Typotheque offers Unicode compliant fonts, which is the new standard for publishing. Unfortunately Unicode OpenType fonts don't work correctly in QuarkXPress® with ArabicXT™.

We recommend using Adobe InDesign ME which supports Arabic OpenType fonts well. If you have no other option but to use AXt fonts, you could request format conversion.

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Up until now, if you wanted to use fonts on a website, you were limited to one of the dozen or so ‘web-safe’ fonts (Verdana, Times, Helvetica—you know, the ones you see everywhere on the web). Using other fonts required you to convert the text into images, or to use some hacky Javascript or Flash solution such as sIFR or Cufón.

In a relatively recent development, browsers which support the @font-face rule can access fonts embedded in websites, but most font companies have been reluctant to permit use of their products on the web because of the high risk of software piracy. Typotheque, however, now offers the Typotheque Web Font Service, a font-embedding system which is based on W3C standards, providing a secure, reliable way to use fonts whose files are hosted on a global network of servers (cloud hosting).

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Owners of Typotheque font licenses can create embeddable fonts via their Typotheque accounts. Simply enter the domains where the font will be used and the languages to be supported, and our system instantly generates a short block of CSS code. Paste the code into your website, and you are ready to start using the font. You will not work with actual font files, just with the CSS code linking to the font files.− Permalink

sIFR is a workaround which uses Javascript, Flash and CSS to replace the given text with small Flash files. The lengthy processing times involved make it unsuitable for longer texts. Cufón, on the other hand is a Javascript package that draws type outlines. Like sIFR, it is rather slow, difficult to set up, and has some issues with text selection and screen rendering.

Our system uses real fonts, just like the other fonts that your computer uses to display websites. The only difference it that the font files are not hosted on your computer, but on a secure server.

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Fonts are software, and their use is defined by their End-User Licence. At the moment, most commercial fonts don’t permit font embedding, but all Typotheque fonts can be embedded via our secure server.− Permalink

The @font-face rule is supported by Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1, Opera 10 and Internet Explorer 4.0. Our system is thus compatible with more than 95% of all browsers in use. For older browsers you can define a list of default web-safe font stacks.

For more information see the Wikipedia article on browser usage statistics

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Our Web Font Service licence doesn’t allow placing the font files on your own server. Use Typotheque’s font-embedding method instead. It automatically generates a block of CSS code that you can use on your site.

Typotheque also offers separate Server licensing, which is designed for large companies. This licence is priced at €1500 per font. For more information please get in touch.

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Typotheque’s font embedding system works with any browser supporting the @font-face rule, so you don’t have to worry about the technical differences between Explorer and other browsers. For the curious and the technically-minded: Internet Explorer supports embedding of EOT (Embedded OpenType) fonts, whereas other browsers use standard TrueType (TTF) and OpenType (OTF) fonts. Typotheque’s system, however, creates both TTF and EOT fonts on the fly, so the CSS code it generates works correctly in all compatible browsers.− Permalink

We use a global network of geographically distributed servers (cloud hosting), so you can be confident that the font files will be available at all times. Specifically, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS), a backbone infrastructure that guarantees the highest possible uptime. The hosting is scalable and can adapt to any kind of application, no matter how fast it grows or how big it gets.

Furthermore, hosting font files on external servers makes loading faster, as font files are subject to the same connections-per-hostname limits as other resources. Loading them from the same server might block other downloads. Using reliable external hosting means avoiding the blocking issue and faster download times.

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While the licence of the Typotheque Web Font Service doesn’t allow installing fonts on external servers, we do provide a specific licence to allow installation of fonts on web servers. The fonts must be installed following special instructions. This license is priced at €1500 per font. For more information please get in touch.− Permalink

Typotheque hosts fonts on a global content delivery network using Amazon.com’s redundant server architecture. This makes Typotheque web font hosting faster and more reliable than most of our clients’ sites.

Because browsers have limits on how many simultaneous requests they can make to individual servers, hosting images or fonts on third-party servers will utilise more connections, loading files much faster than if they were hosted on the same server.

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Instead of providing a font file directly to clients, we provide a block of dynamically-generated CSS code for use on the client’s site. The actual font file is hosted on our secure servers, and its URL is not visible to the end user. Furthermore, the fonts are subsetted, using only the characters required by the specific website, which makes downloading of the fonts very fast. And since about 95% of the font information is removed, even if the file is pirated, it only contains 5% of the font.

Additionally, specific font tables that are required for normal use of the fonts are removed, which makes the web fonts unusable in standard computer applications. Finally, all fonts carry a digital watermark which enables tracing of unauthorised users.

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Regular Typotheque fonts support over 100 languages and advanced typographic features such as small caps, different numeral styles, alternative characters and special symbols. Web browsers, however, can access only a small fraction of those characters. Removing these inaccessible features makes the files much smaller, so they download much quicker. Users can specify which languages to support.− Permalink

The @font-face rule is a W3C standard allowing authors to specify online fonts for displaying text on their webpages.

Example:
  @font-face {
    font-family: "Example Font";
    src: url("http://www.example.com/fonts/example");
}
  h1 {
    font-family: "Example Font", sans-serif;
}

For more information see the W3C article on the @font-face rule

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You pay one time fee for the font licence. If you stay within the allocated bandwidth limit (500MB per font per month), there will be no more costs for you. Additional bandwidth costs €0.005 per megabyte, per month.

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Unfortunately, web browsers do not support OpenType layout features (yet). But the Typotheque web font system generates font files on the fly, and can apply OpenType features directly to the file in the process. This enables us to support true small caps as well as various styles of numerals. You can control these advanced OpenType features via your online account.

Don’t use font-variant:small-caps; property in CSS as this would mathematically scale the characters, rather than using true small caps.

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Typotheque web fonts support all languages supported by their print versions. That’s over 100 languages, including those using Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic scripts.

Latin, Greek, Armenian and Cyrillic scripts render consistently in all browsers, but complex scripts such as Arabic or Devanagari require AAT fonts for correct shaping on Macintosh. That means that on Windows fonts will be rendered correctly, but Mac renders in the fallback font (rather than showing unshaped glyphs). We hope that Apple will extend their support for OTF and TTF fonts to render complex script correctly.

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If you have already purchased an OpenType font license from us, you can use the licensed fonts on the web via our font embedding system. It also entitles you to 500MB of free bandwidth per month. Additional bandwidth costs €0.005 per megabyte.− Permalink

To ensure optimal file availability we use a global network of distributed servers. We allocate 500MB of free bandwidth per month per used font. For a typical font file size (approximately 20kB), that translates to 25,000 visitor views per month. Additional bandwidth costs €0.005 per megabyte. Users can monitor usage statistics, so they can know in advance how much they will be billed.− Permalink

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The Full Licence of our OpenType fonts permits you to download the font files and use them in your favorite print applications. When you want to use them on a website, log in to your account to generate a block of CSS code for your webpage.− Permalink

We now offer two different font licences. The Full Licence entitles you to download the font files to your computer and use them in print applications as well as on the web. If you only need to use the fonts on the web you can save 80% by buying the Web-Only licence, which gives you access to the online CSS code generator rather than to actual font files.− Permalink

Yes, in addition to Full and Web licenses, we also offer a Trial Licence. The trial licence gives you a bandwidth limit of 50MB and 30 days to evaluate the fonts. After 30 days or 50 MB (whichever comes first), you will be prompted to upgrade to a Web or Full license. If not upgraded, the licensed fonts will expire.

The trial licence is also limited to a single language font subset, and two domains.

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Yes you can. Just log in to your account, open your order history click the ‘Fonts’ and then ‘Upgrade’ button.− Permalink

For technical reasons, PostScript fonts can’t be used to create web-embeddable fonts, so if you bought PostScript versions of our fonts, you will first need to upgrade to OpenType versions.

If you already have OpenType versions you can now use them on the web at no extra cost. Just login to your account, and click on Webfonts.

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We are working on creating an API so that other font vendors can also sell web font licenses using our system. More information will be available via: www.type-applications.com. Please get in touch to discuss the possibilities.− Permalink

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Yes, you can update the list, adding or removing domains at any time. There is no limit on the number of domains.− Permalink

Yes, it is possible. Please contact us directly when you are ready to do so. Both users will have to have a Typotheque account and agree to the terms of the licence.− Permalink

Yes, you can do that. To set a monthly bandwidth budget, log in to your account, go to Web Fonts, and click on Stats. After the monthly limit is reached, the next font specified in the font stack will be used until the end of the month. From the 1st of the next month, the first font will be used again until you reach the limit, or change the budget limit. You will receive an email notification when the limit is reached.− Permalink

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Yes you can. Our CSS is designed to recognise local fonts, and if the given font is installed locally it is used first. In that case the web fonts are not used, so no bandwidth is consumed.

When you use locally installed fonts, you will not be able to control the OpenType features such as small caps or various numeral types.

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In some browsers, most notably Firefox, you may see a barely noticeable ‘blink’ before the real font loads in (a.k.a. Flash Of Unstyled Content). This is a result of Firefox’s handling of the @font-face rule.

As a work-around we offer a JavaScript solution that hides content until browsers are finishing loading fonts.

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Font rendering is handled by the operating system’s rasterizer. While Apple’s OS X does a great job of rendering all fine details of type on screen, the Windows rasterizer is less refined, so fonts in small sizes don’t look as good as in Mac OS.

You can enhance font display on LCD screens by turning on Windows ClearType. You can further fine-tune ClearType by using the ClearType Tuner.

Follow these steps to enhance screen fonts on Windows:
How to Use ClearType to Enhance Screen Fonts in Windows XP
ClearType Tuner
ClearType Tuner PowerToy

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Sure. Below are links to pages that we made.

http://www.typotheque.com/webfonts/sample
http://www.typotheque.com/webfonts/sample_2
http://www.typotheque.com/webfonts/sample_3
http://www.typotheque.com/webfonts/multilingual_sample

And here are the first clients using their fonts online.

http://www.typotheque.com/news/selection_of_websites_using_typotheque_web_font_service/

If you have implemented Typotheque fonts on your site, please drop us a message and we'll include a link here.

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Because web browsers do not support OpenType layout features, we built a system that generates font files on the fly, and can apply OpenType features directly to the file. This enables us to support true small caps as well as various styles of numerals. You can control these advanced OpenType features via your online account.

This means that selecting the check box Small Caps will replace the standard lower case letters by true small capitals. You can turn the small caps on and off at any time, while keeping the same CSS code.

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Mobile Safari in the current version of iPhone and iPad doesn't support OpenType, TrueType or WOFF fonts. The only way at the moment to display custom fonts is to use SVG fonts.

In order to support custom font rendering on iPhone and iPad we include experimental support of SVG fonts.

There are however some known problem with Mobile Safari and SVG fonts. Rendering multiple fonts may cause Mobile Safari to crash. We experimented with number of rendered fonts, but don't have conclusive results. Sometimes 8 different fonts would render well, in other cases already two fonts crash Mobile Safari. Sizes of font files seem to not matter.

SVG fonts have number of other limitations. It doesn't support hinting. Mobile Safari does not synthesize a bold, italic, or bold italic style from the normal weight of an SVG font. Finally, SVG fonts have some selection issues - and only parts of the text can be selected. All these issues are reported with Webkit, and we can only hope that they will fixed soon.

There is a separate issue with non-ASCII letters, which render as missing characters. Typotheque is working on a solution for this.

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We canʼt give away fonts before the user buys the license to use them. We understand that it is difficult to make a decision as to whether the typeface is suitable for your particular needs: thatʼs why we offer several ways to preview and test fonts. 

1/ You can create your own PDF using our fonts in PDF FontTester to set your own sample in our typefaces. 

2/ If you would like to get a good idea of how it functions on paper, you can request a free type specimen.

3/ You can buy a single style of the font, test it yourself, then buy the full package that you need. We will deduct the price of the single style from the price of the full package. Simply log in to your account, go to your previous orders, and click on the Upgrade Options.

4/ If none of the above options work we can also send you a custom PDF with a test setting of Typotheque fonts. Please send us your InDesign or Illustrator files with your text, specified sizes and indicate which fonts youʼd like to try. We will set the indicated sample in our fonts and return the PDF.

In some rare cases, for clients with references (usually newspaper or magazine designers), we provide a test license of Typotheque fonts.

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You can request to receive copies of Typotheque specimens. To do so, you will need to create a user account. If you have received Typotheque specimens in the past, or you are already a Typotheque customer and have an existing account with us. If this is not your case and you would like to receive new typeface specimens from us, proceed here to create a new account (please do not create more than one account per person).

Create an account here

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The embedding of fonts in PDF documents is allowed provided that the extraction of the Fonts is prohibited. 

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You can use our fonts to create websites, but since visitors may not have the same fonts installed, you will need to convert the fonts to images (GIF, JPG or PNG) so that the pages display as you intend. You can also use the fonts in Flash websites.

Uploading the font data to web servers is strictly prohibited, as the fonts become freely available to unlicensed third parties. You can however use Typotheque Web Font Service to use the fonts online.

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The embedding of fonts in Flash documents is allowed provided that the extraction of the Fonts is prohibited, and that you doʼt resell the Flash documents / templates.

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A special license is required to use the fonts in electronic books, game playing devices, gaming or gambling devices irrespective of whether the device contains the font data or merely the designs of the fonts.

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Log in to your account with your old email address, and update your contact information.

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Once a year we sent all registered users an email to ask you to confirm or update your mailing address. Simply click a button, and your account will be updated. If you received a reminder to do the update and you think you have updated the account already, contact us.

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Typotheque doesnʼt have access to usersʼ passwords. If you lost or donʼt remember your account password, you can generate a new one. Simply click on My Account and Forgot Password.

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After every order an electronic copy of the invoice is issued. You can access these PDF invoices at any time in your account. If you require a paper copy of the invoice, do get in touch.

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Typotheque offers a free back up of the fonts via your account. Anytime you want, you can log in, go to your previous orders and download the fonts you have licensed.

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Typotheque works with Bibit Internet Payment for processing payments. While the order is prepared on our website, the payment takes place on the secure site of Bibit. Typotheque doesnʼt have access to your credit card information at any time. Every time you place an order, you will have to enter your payment details again. 

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Typotheque makes use of SSL technology (Secure Socket Layer) to protect your personal information during the payment process. SSL uses 128-bit Open-PGP encryption to be absolutely sure that your information is protected and remains so. SSL is the industry standard for secure payment via most popular web browsers.

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If you have previously purchased something on your website, or have received type specimens from us, you have an account with us. In that case, you donʼt need to create a new account, but simply update the existing one. If you donʼt remember your login details, send us a message.

If you are experiencing technical problems creating an account, please send us a precise description of the problem. Please include the URL of the page where the problem occurs and which browser and platform you use. 

Trying a different browser might help.

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At any time you can choose to stop receiving our email newsletter, or change your mailing preferences for printed type specimens. Simply log in to your account, and update your preferences.

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If you would like to receive free type specimens from Typotheque, create an account, and click the button that you wish to receive specimens.

If you have already an account, and havenʼt received anything, look in your account at the status of the Requested catalogues.  You will see the list of catalogues that have been sent or are waiting to be sent. Please be patient, as we only send catalogues every 3 months or so.

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If you accidentally created more than one account, and you would like to merge them into one, you can do it by clicking merge accounts. 

This way your orders and personal settings will be moved to the primary account. You will need to know the email address that you used for both accounts.

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When you buy a license to History fonts, you get automatically access to the online layering application History Remixer. You need to be logged in to your account, to be able to generate PDF files from History Remixer.

History Remixer remixer allows controlling the layers and text separately. It however doesn't allow finer typographic control, such changing tracking, kerning, colouring individual characters, etc. If you need these finer controls, you should first install History fonts on your computer, than make a PDF file in History Remixer, and than edit the PDF in Adobe Illustrator®.

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