Choose a typeface you would like to purchase and click on the blue Buying options button on its page. You will be offered the option to select individual typefaces or complete packages, and in some cases a choice of Pro or Std fonts. If you need to install fonts on your computer, choose Print & Web Licence. If you only want to use the fonts on webpages (without installing them on your computer), choose Web Licence. Add your purchases to your cart, check out, and choose one of the payment methods. You can pay by credit card and download the fonts instantly, or by bank transfer, (fonts will be accessible once the transfer is complete). Bank transfers can take a few days, so please allow for the processing time.
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 OpenType Pro fonts are €120 per style (for single-user licenses). (That’s because our OpenType Pro fonts contain about twice as many glyphs as our OpenType Std fonts). The price of a complete package of fonts is significantly lower than the combined prices of the individual styles, but you can upgrade to a complete package at any time. Licences for multiple users are of course more expensive than licences for single users (but are substantially cheaper than buying multiple single-user licences).
We provide volume discounts when you buy multiple font packages in one purchase.
Our Font Licence Calculator calculates the final price for you (including possible discounts), and emails you a quote.
The easiest and fastest way to pay is by credit card. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Visa Electron. We also accept a number of country specific payment methods such as iDeal, MisterCash and SofortBanking. If you don’t have a credit card, you can also pay by direct bank transfer (bank wire). Just click on the Bank Transfer button. Please remember that your products will ship/be available for download once the transfer is complete, which can take a number of days.
We do not accept cheques.
Fonts are software, which means that everyone who uses them needs to have a licence. 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 licence. If clients wish to use the fonts as well, then they too need to buy their own licences.
We offer the option to upgrade either smaller font packages to larger ones, or upgrade single-user licenses to multiple-user licenses. For example, you can buy a single-user license for Fedra Sans Light for €90 now, and upgrade it later to a complete package for the total price of the package minus €90. Likewise, if you upgrade the same font from a single-user license to a multiple-user license, you will be credited the amount you have already paid.
You can also upgrade OpenType Std to OpenType Pro by paying the difference in price. All upgrades can be done directly from your account: go to My Fonts and click on the Upgrade link.
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 contact us if you have more questions.
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. If your company resides in the EU, but has a registered VAT number, you can save your VAT number in the personal information in your account; 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.
A company registered in the EU can avoid paying the 19% Dutch VAT tax by providing its VAT number in the information in its 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.
Typotheque works only with one font distributor FontShop, but they only sell Typothequeʼs older typefaces in PostScript and TrueType formats. If you need the fonts in OpenType, or if you need the latest typefaces, you can get them directly from Typotheque.
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 licence agreements specifying the licensing conditions are issued.
If your clients, colleagues or friends need a font, ask them to buy their licences directly through our website.
Typotheque offers volume discounts on larger font orders. When you select a complete package of our fonts, the price is significantly lower than when you buy the same 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%, and for orders over €3,000 it is 25%. Contact us for information on discounts for orders over €5,000.
Because of security limits, we can only process online orders for a maximum of €3,499.99. If you need to order products for more than €3,499.99, you can either split up the order into smaller ones, or request an invoice and pay by direct bank transfer.
Downloaded 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.
We issue PDF invoices for all orders. Copies of the invoices are stored in your account, and you can print them at any time. If you require a paper invoice from us, let us know. If you require the invoice in a different language, you can change the settings in your personal information.
If you will be paying by bank transfer and require an invoice, please let us know before placing the order.
As a company registered in the Netherlands we list all prices and issue all invoices in Euros. For your convenience there is an option to display product prices in other currencies. These converted prices are for your information only; the invoice will be issued in Euros.
For the latest conversion rates check this website.
We offer permanent backup of your purchased fonts on our server. Just log in to download them at any time. We donʼt send fonts on CD.
In some rare cases we issue discount codes. If you have a discount code, enter it on the Confirmation page before checking out.
Sometimes a valid order attempt is refused by CardGate, our credit card processing company. This happens especially to our US-based clients. The bank that issued the card is trying to protect the customer (you) by blocking the card when it is used overseas. Contacting your bank and asking for payment authorisation usually helps. Alternatively, you can try using 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 will issue a pro forma invoice with all our bank details. Bank transfer can take a few days, so please allow for the processing time.
Other possible reasons for refused orders are:
— Expiry date and credit card number do not match
— There is not enough credit available
— The credit card is blocked
— Too many transactions
Some credit card companies have started requesting extra security information when processing payments. This is for the protection of their customers and has nothing to do with our website. Visa and MasterCard in particular have developed authentication procedures to improve online transaction security.
Verified By Visa and MasterCard SecureCode use personal codes known only to the card holder. The codes protect clients from fraudulent online transactions and enable the card holder and card issuer to identify each other before proceeding with an online order.
You can read more about this here:
Verified By Visa (USA)
Verified By Visa (Europe)
MasterCard SecureCode
Orders on Typotheque which were not completed because of incomplete security information are saved to your account with the status ‘Waiting for payment’. They are not complete orders, so if you'd like to proceed with ordering you need to place the order again using a different credit card or other payment method.
Some especially proactive card issuers give you the option to enroll in Verified By Visa or MasterCard SecureCode during the payment process when we send you to their authentication server. Most card issuers give you the option to defer signing up and just proceed with the payment. If not, you can go to your bank’s website and sign up, try using another card, or call your bank.
As a company registered in the Netherlands, Typotheque is obliged to issue all its invoices in Euro. For the convenience of US clients, we indicate on the invoice also an estimate of the amount in US dollars. For this estimation we use Universal Currency Converter.
Please note that the actual price that will appear in your credit card statements may be different, as the credit card company may use a different exchange rate. Furthermore, as the Euro and Dollar exchange rate fluctuate daily, so there may be difference in how your bank calculates the costs.
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.
Only packages shipped with UPS are trackable. Log in to your account and go to My Orders, where you can track the parcel.
The postal service is more reliable than it may at first seem. In more than ten years of operation, Typotheque has had very few lost packages. If your order is important, please plan sufficient delivery time. The pre-holiday season is particularly hectic for the post, and many packages are delayed.
Please do get in touch if you placed an order more than 30 days ago and still haven’t received the package.
In a few rare cases packages are returned because the postal service has been 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.
Like most software, fonts come with terms of use called an End User Licence Agreement (EULA). Each software developer has its own terms of use, and its 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 licence to use our fonts. You must agree to the EULA before buying and using the fonts.
Fonts are software, which means that everyone who uses them needs to have a licence (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 licence. If clients wish to use the fonts as well, then they too need to buy their own licences.
An existing font licence 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 licence right away or later. You can upgrade to license more users directly from your account. Log in, go to My Fonts, and click on the Upgrade link.
Please read our End User Licence Agreement - it is a legally binding document. The main points of the licence are:
1. The standard licence allows only a single user to use the fonts. If additional people will use the fonts, you need to upgrade the licence to cover multiple users.
2. By buying the licence 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 backup 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 sell or rent modified versions of our fonts.
6. You need a special licence if you plan to embed the fonts in games or other software.
7. You can embed fonts into PDF and Flash files for free, but you must set embedding 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 licence to a third party if he or she agrees to the licensing conditions in writing and you destroy your copies of the fonts and confirm this in writing too.
11. We canʼt guarantee that the fonts will be appropriate for your projects.
As a licensed user of Typotheque fonts you can use the fonts for all your projects as long as you comply with the licence agreement. Typotheque offers various font licences for various applications. There is no limit to the media used; you can use the fonts 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.
There is no restriction on the number of reproductions you are allowed to create using the licensed fonts, so you can create a single print or millions of prints.
There are no time restrictions on using the fonts, so you can use them for as long as you wish.
You can make backup copies of the fonts. Your Typotheque account, however, functions as a free online backup because you can re-download your fonts at any time.
We donʼt allow others to modify our fonts, but we are open to user requests and can customise our fonts for you for a reasonable fee. Please contact us for details.
You may transfer a previously purchased font licence to a third party if the third party agrees to our EULA in writing and you destroy your copies of the fonts and confirm this in writing too.
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, you can get a Service Licence extension for only 50% of the fonts’ original price. Since the service bureau licence is an extension of an existing customerʼs licence, it is valid only for the output of that customerʼs jobs.
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. To use the fonts online, take advantage of the Typotheque Webfont Service.
The embedding of fonts in PDF documents is allowed, provided that you set embedding to prevent the extraction of the fonts and you use font subsetting.
You can upgrade your current font licence to cover additional users at any time. For example, you can first buy a single-user licence to get a good idea whether the fonts suit your purposes, then upgrade the licence to cover all users in your office. The price paid for the single-user licence will be deducted from the price of the multiple-user licence. 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.
If you have previously purchased a licence for a PostScript or TrueType font, and now need the OpenType version, you can upgrade your licence. Instead of paying the full price of a new licence, you will pay only the difference in price. OpenType fonts are more expensive, as they include more characters, support more languages, and provide advanced typographic layout features. Log in to your account, go to My Fonts and click on the Upgrade button.
We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.
If you previously purchased a licence 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 upgrade your licence. Rather than paying the full price of a new licence, you will pay only the difference in price. Log in to your account, go to My Fonts and click on the Upgrade button.
We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.
More about the difference between Std and Pro fonts.
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 licence for a single style of a font and now wish to use the complete package, you can upgrade your licence. Rather than paying for the font which you already have, you will pay only the difference in price. Log in to your account, go to My Fonts and click on the Upgrade button.
We are also happy to help you with upgrading your fonts. Simply send us an email.
We occasionally publish updates of our existing fonts. These updates are often improvements such as additional language support, additional glyphs, or improved kerning. You will be notified by email of major updates to fonts that you have licensed so you can download the updated fonts directly from your account.
Typotheque has more than 15 years 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.
The price estimate for a custom typeface consists of two components: 1) development cost of the typeface, which we calculate based on the estimated time required, and 2) the licensing fee, which is determined by the clientʼs request. There are three different licensing possibilities: a non-exclusive licence (the custom typeface can be used by other people), a partially-exclusive licence (fonts are exclusive only for a limited period of time, e.g. 2 or 5 years), or an exclusive licence (the client buys out the rights to the fonts forever). 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 is rather costly if the fonts will only be used for a few years.
For more information please get in touch.
In specific cases we can customise our fonts. For example: if 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 licence 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 licence agreements, we canʼt modify other type foundriesʼ fonts. In such cases please contact the copyright holder to request modifications.
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 could be used for setting texts in multiple languages, such as English, Czech, Russian, Greek or Esperanto. OpenType fonts are cross-platform; the same file can be used on Mac and PC, and OpenType fonts should behave consistently on both platforms.
Not all OpenType fonts contain thousands of characters. In fact, most of the available OpenType fonts on the market are converted PostScript fonts that contain only 256 glyphs. Typotheque offers Std and Pro fonts, with broad language support, eight different numeral styles, inferior and superior forms, case sensitive forms, arrows, pictograms, and more.
If you only work with Latin-based languages (e.g. English, French, Polish, Czech or Turkish) then our OpenType Std fonts will meet your needs. If you also require support of Vietnamese, Russian or Greek, then you’ll 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.
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 Caps feature.
In Adobe applications, for example, 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 as QuarkXPress 6, FreeHand or Word 2008 and older.
Many of the special characters in our typefaces 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. For more in-depth OpenType feature instructions see the Features page, or consult the PDF that came with your downloaded fonts.
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 these options.
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 2,540 glyphs, so in these programs you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.
See a detailed table of supported OpenType features in various applications.
Software applications which do not support OpenType layout features (check which software does support OTF features) can only display the default forms of letters and numbers. Typotheque fonts designed for small sizes usually use Old Style figures, while fonts designed for headlines use Lining figures.
Older versions of Microsoft Word use only the default numeral forms. Newer applications such as the Adobe Creative Suite programs, or Microsoft Word 2010 can control the OpenType features of the fonts. In Word 2010ʼs Home tab, click the Font Dialog Box Launcher, then click the Advanced tab, where you can select Ligatures, Number forms, Stylistic sets or Contextual Alternates.
Please note that Word can’t access Small Caps. Read more about OpenType features in Office 2010.
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 these options.
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 over 2,500 glyphs, so in these programs you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.
It is preferable to use PostScript fonts in such older applications.
At Typotheque you can upgrade previously licensed fonts in other formats to OpenType. We will deduct the price of the fonts you have already paid for. For example, if you upgrade the PostScript version of Fedra Sans Book (for which you paid €60) to Fedra Sans Std Book (priced at €90) you will pay only €30 extra. Since we need to verify your previous order, please write to us directly with your upgrade requests.
OpenType is a computer font format that was built on its predecessor TrueType, intended to supersede both the TrueType and the PostScript Type 1 font formats.
The outlines in an OpenType font may be defined in TrueType format outlines, or Compact Font Format (CFF) outlines based on the PostScript language.
For most purposes, it doesn’t matter what the outline data format is because applications support both formats equally well. But for some purposes, such as rendering on screen, TrueType outlines are superior if they contain the hinting instructions that improve legibility at low resolutions.
The term ‘OpenType’ by itself doesn't specify outline data format, instead terms like ‘OpenType (PostScript flavour)", ‘OpenType PS’, ‘OpenType Type 1’, ‘OpenType CFF’, ‘OpenType (TrueType flavour)’, or ‘OpenType TT’ are used to indicate which outline format a particular OpenType font contains.
Most of fonts that Typotheque offers for licensing are in OpenType CFF format. Only Typotheque Screen fonts use OpenType TrueType outline for improved rendering at small sizes.
Just go to Glyphs, on the font presentation page.
OTF - OpenType Font
PS - PostScript Font
TTF - TrueType Font
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)
WOFF - Web Open Font Format
SVG - Scaled Vector Graphics
Typotheque Windows font 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 later) 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. If your browser does not extract the font files automatically after download, double-click the .sit files to decompress them with Archive Utility. If Archive Utility does not unpack the files you can download and install StuffIt Expander at no charge. Drag the .sit files onto Stuffit Expanderʼs icon or application window to decompress them.
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, 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.
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, 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.
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.
4c. Alternatively, you can click the Install Font 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 logins 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.
There have been numerous bugs in font managers such as Suitcase, FontReserve, FontAgent and FontBook, so we don’t really recommend any font management software 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 management software for both Mac and PC.
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 new fonts are installed. Quit the application and start it up again to see if the fonts are available afterwards.
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
Because most Typotheque fonts come in more than four styles, they 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, (but switching to Italic by clicking the I icon works, since most of our styles contain italics).
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), Word 2010 and Mellel offer these options.
Other applications such as QuarkXpress 6, FreeHand and older versions of Word only offer access to the first 256 glyphs of the fonts, ignoring the others. Fedra Sans Pro, for example, includes over 2,500 glyphs, so in these programs you will be only able to use about 10% of the fontʼs possibilities.
It is preferable to use PostScript fonts in such older applications.
There is a bug in QuarkXPress 6 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
Fedra Sans was released in 2001. Later, when the 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.
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.
Unicode is an international computer standard for uniform representation of all the writing systems of the world. Unicode is the basis of most modern software internationalization.
LetterMeter, a Unicode based text analysis tool, helps compare multilingual texts and measure the frequency of particular glyphs. It has been moved to a different website: http://www.type-applications.com.
We offer fonts primarily in OpenType 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 which is more convenient to install than the two files which are required for each PostScript font.
Typotheque stopped selling PostScript fonts in 2009, and they are now available only by request. If you need to use PostScript fonts, please drop us a message with specifications of styles that you need, which style of numerals you’d like to use, and which platform they will be installed on. A single-user licence for one PostScript font is €60. A small conversion fee will be charged for creating the PostScript fonts.
Please note that PostScript fonts can access only 220 glyphs, are not compatible with Unicode, and are not compatible across platforms, so different fonts need to be made for Mac and Windows.
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 to set texts in various languages, such as English, Czech, Russian, Greek or Esperanto. OpenType fonts are cross-platform (i.e. 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 converted PostScript fonts containing only 256 glyphs. Typotheque offers Std and Pro fonts, with broad language support, eight different numeral styles, inferior and superior forms, case sensitive forms, arrows, pictograms, and more.
If you donʼt know what font format to choose, OpenType Std is a safe choice, as it work on both Mac and Windows platforms.
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 its reliability and the wider selection of fonts available in this format. PostScript has a clever rasterizing engine, and font hinting (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 compatible across platforms.
Typotheque stopped selling PostScript fonts in 2009, and they are now available only by request. If you need to use PostScript fonts, please contact us to specify which styles you need, which style of numerals you’d like to use, and which platform the fonts will be installed on. A single user licence for one PostScript font is €60. A small conversion fee will be charged for creating the PostScript fonts.
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 the format’s technical superiority (most of the system fonts on both Mac and Windows computers are TrueType) it 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 on low-resolution output devices, such as 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 ʻScreenʼ. 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.
We offer two different kinds of Arabic fonts: Fedra AR (Arabic), which supports only the Arabic and Mac Roman sets; and Fedra Multiscript, which offers the same Arabic support plus full Latin (Western, Turkish, Central, Eastern European), Greek and Cyrillic. The price of one Fedra AR font is €120 and Multiscript fonts are priced at €160.
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.
In order to use Arabic fonts, you need to use special versions of InDesign, PhotoShop or Illustrator. These versions are labeled ME (Middle Eastern) and 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
Alternatively you can use ScribeDOOR plugin for Adobe CS, which adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and many scripts to create multilingual documents.
A cheaper, but more complicated alternative is to use World-ready composer.
On Mac OSX, Arabic will work at the system level in web browsers, 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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It is expected that Adobe CS6 will support these languages without special plugins.
Typotheque fonts support 85 languages, however not every version of every font supports every language. For example if you use both English and Czech in a document, you need to use a version of the font which supports those two languages. PostScript fonts offer limited language support and you would have to use two different PostScript fonts, one with Western and one with Central European encodings. The OpenType format simplifies matters, as a single font can support several encodings, (for example, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek).
Up-to-date information about languages currently supported by our fonts is here.
Besides modern Greek, Typotheque Pro fonts also support Greek Polytonic, with the variety of diacritics used to write pre-reform and ancient Greek.
QuarkXPress® requires AXt fonts and Layout Ltd’s ArabicXT™ extension for setting Arabic text. AXt fonts are non-Unicode fonts, using the ‘Mac Roman’ encoding; Arabic glyphs are substituted for the Roman glyphs, so for example ‘alef’ replaces capital letter G. The AXt Fonts are designed to work only with ArabicXT™, and can contain only 256 glyphs. AXt 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.
Typotheque designs and develops Unicode-compliant fonts. Below are some instructions for using Unicode fonts to set Devanagari texts.
How to use Devanagari fonts in Adobe applications:
IndicPlus: (Recommended)
Compatibility:
Works with Adobe InDesign CS2, CS3 and CS4 (Both Mac and PC)
For further information on this plugin, please visit this website:
http://www.metadesignsolutions.com/IndicPlus.html
World Tools
Compatibility:
Works only with Adobe InDesign CS4
For further information on this plugin, please visit this website:
http://www.in-tools.com/plugin.php?p=8
ScribeDOOR
Alternatively you can use ScribeDOOR plugin for Adobe CS, which adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and many scripts to create multilingual documents.
Compatibility:
Works only with Adobe InDesign CS4
1. Download the scripts.
2. Install the fonts.
3. Copy the provided scripts to your InDesign's Scripts folder.
Location on a Mac:
Applications > Adobe InDesign CS4 > Scripts > Scripts Panel
Location on a PC:
Program Files > Adobe > Adobe InDesign CS4 > Scripts > Scripts Panel
4. Open the Adobe InDesign CS4. Type in some Devanagari text using ITF fonts.
Select the text and go to Window > Automation > Scripts.
5. In the scripts panel, while keeping the text selected, run the script:
rl2-assign_WR_single_composer.jsx
or
rl2-assign_WR_para_composer.jsx
6. Your text should render properly now.
Compatibility:
Works with Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4 & Adobe Photoshop CS4
1. Download the templates.*
2. Install the fonts.
3. Open any of the template and use the ITF fonts within the provided text box. If you want to create a new text box, make a copy of the first text box and use it.
*Download the templates here:
InDesign: http://www.thomasphinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/world-ready-indesign.zip
Illustrator: http://www.thomasphinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/world-ready-illustrator.ai
Photoshop: http://www.thomasphinney.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/world-ready-photoshop.psd
Some old text documents working with Indic languages use 8-bit encoding, which required to use proprietary fonts. Such fonts can only use 256 glyphs, which is not sufficient for correct rendering of Devanagari (or other 10 Indic writing scripts). The various non-standard 8-bit encodings has been rendered obsolete by Unicode, which assigns each character a unique numeric value and name. Unicode standard provides the capacity to encode all of the characters used for the written languages of the world. Typotheque doesn't support the legacy 8-bit formats, instead to recommends to use Unicode standards, and Unicode compliant fonts.
The Indian government (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology) issued recommendation to use Unicode to represent Indic scripts.
Typotheque fonts are Unicode compliant, so you need to enter your text correctly encoded. An easy way to find out if you have correctly encoded text is to copy-paste a sample of the text into Internet browser, for example into Google search. If the text appears correctly (as Hindi, Arabic, etc), than you are ready to use the Typotheque fonts.
Correctly encoded text
If you see gibberish text, you are likely using non-standard 8-bit text encoding. You will need to convert it to Unicode first, or retype it completely.
Non-standard 8-bit text encoding
Adobe CS4 and CS5 officially doesn't support Arabic. Instead, there is a separate ME version (Middle Eastern) which supports left-to-right languages.
This means that Adobe CS4 and CS5 will only show Arabic isolated glyphs, which don't connect as they should.
However, there is a work-around to activate Arabic support in CS4 and CS5, as it is described here:
http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/01/adobe-world-ready-composer http://indesigning.net/right-to-left-arabic-hebrew-hindi-in-indesign-cs4-none-me
These templates and scripts enable World-ready Composer, allowing to use Arabic in CS4 and CS5.
Alternatively, you could download the following InDesign CS5 document which already includes stylesheets for Thuraya and Fedra Arabic.
Back in 2007, a book Typographic matchmaking was published along with a CD with free beta versions of fonts produced for the projects. THe CD included early version of Fedra Arabic, however the fonts were not yet vocalised with dynamic mark positioning in fonts. This means that while the fonts work correctly in Adobe ME software, but not in other applications. If you need to use the fonts elsewhere, you will have to purchase the release versions of Fedra Arabic.
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).
Owners of Typotheque font licences 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.
Typotheque offers two different ways of using fonts on the web. Typotheque Webfont service is the simplest option, ready to use in minutes. Clients receive CSS code for using fonts online, and manage their project via Typotheque online account. Actual font files are hosted on a remote network of servers (CDN), and clients don't have direct access to the files. This removes the complexity of serving the right font formats to the right browser. With the Webfont service, clients receive 500MB of free font bandwidth per months. If the website exceeds this limit, clients will pay for the extra bandwidth. In our experience, 97% of websites never exceed the free allocated bandwidth limit. If you are not certain how much traffic your website generated, you can always use the Free Webfont trial licence to get some data about your website's font use.
Read more about Webfont service (and watch the demo video).
For very large website we offer another option - Self-hosting webfont licence. This is a more costly webfont licence, where the client manages the assets and has a full control over the files. It requires some programming skills as the fonts files will be installed on your own server, following our instructions. You can choose from two implementation methods, either using PHP scripts, or HTTP referrer script. Both ways are safe and reliable, and prevent fonts from being copied casually. Self-hosting license fee is one time cost, there are no additional monthly or yearly annual charges.
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 runs rather slowly, is difficult to set up, and has some issues with text selection and screen rendering.
Our system uses real fonts exactly like the other fonts that your computer uses to display websites. The only difference is that the font files are not hosted on your computer, but on a secure server.
We wrote a simple tutorial on how to implement the CSS code generated by the Web Font Service.
We now offer two different font licences. The Print & Web Licence (formerly the Basic 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 Licence, which gives you access to the online CSS code generator rather than to actual font files.
Fonts are software, and their use is defined by their End-User Licence Agreement. At the moment, most commercial fonts don’t permit font embedding, but all Typotheque fonts can be embedded via our secure server.
The @font-face rule is supported by Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1, Opera 10, Chrome 5 and Internet Explorer 4.0. Our system is thus compatible with more than 98% 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.
Our Web Font Service Licence doesn’t cover 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 a separate Server Licence, which is designed for large companies and is priced at €1500 per font. For more information please get in touch.
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 compliant browsers.
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 delivers faster download times by avoiding the blocking issue.
While the licence of the Typotheque Web Font Service doesn’t cover the installation of fonts on external servers, we do offer a special Server Licence which allows installation of fonts on web servers. The fonts must be installed following special instructions. This licence is priced at €1500 per font. For more information please get in touch.
Typotheque hosts fonts on a global content delivery network using Amazon.com’s redundant server architecture. This makes Typotheque webfont hosting faster and more reliable than most of our clients’ own websites.
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.
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 software.
Additionally, specific font tables that are required for normal use of the fonts are removed, which makes the webfonts unusable in standard computer applications. Finally, all fonts carry a digital watermark which enables tracing of unauthorised users.
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.
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.
You pay a one-time fee for the font licence. If you stay within the allocated bandwidth limit (500MB per font per month), there will be no further costs for you. Additional bandwidth costs €0.004 per megabyte, per month.
Unfortunately, web browsers do not support OpenType layout features (yet). But the Typotheque webfont 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 the font-variant:small-caps; property in CSS, as this scales the characters mathematically, rather than using true small caps.
Typotheque webfonts support all languages supported by their print versions. That’s over 200 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 Windows renders the fonts 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 scripts correctly.
If you have already purchased an OpenType font licence 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 €0.004 per megabyte.
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 €0.004 per megabyte. Users can monitor usage statistics, so they can know in advance how much they will be billed.
If you plan to use HTTP Secure on your website, you will need to serve the CSS also with the
https, otherwise browsers may block the non-secure content. Simply add one more letter to the path of the CSS. e.g.:
https://wf.typotheque.com/WF-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx/
Yes.
The Print & Web Licence of our OpenType fonts permits you to download the font files and use them in your favourite 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.
Yes, in addition to Print & Web and Web licenses, we also offer a Web Trial Licence, which 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 Print & Web License. If not upgraded, the licensed fonts will expire.
The Web Trial Licence is also limited to a single language font subset and two domains.
Yes you can. Just log in to your account, open your order history, click My Fonts and then the Upgrade button.
For technical reasons, PostScript fonts can’t be used to create web-embeddable fonts, so if you licensed 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.
We created an API so that other font vendors can also sell webfont licenses using our system. More information will be available via: www.type-applications.com. Please get in touch to discuss the possibilities.
There is no limit on the number of specified domains.
Yes, you can update the list, adding or removing domains at any time. There is no limit on the number of domains.
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.
Yes, you can. To set a monthly bandwidth budget, log in to your account, go to Webfonts, 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 raise the budget limit. You will receive an email notification when the limit is reached.
If you have defined a font stack, the next typeface in the stack will be displayed.
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 webfonts are not used, so no bandwidth is consumed.
When you use locally installed fonts, you will not be able to control OpenType features such as small caps or numeral styles.
In some browsers, most notably Firefox, you may see a barely noticeable ‘blink’ (a.k.a. Flash Of Unstyled Content) before the real font loads in. This is a result of Firefox’s handling of the @font-face rule.
As a workaround we offer a JavaScript solution that hides content until browsers are finishing loading fonts.
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
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 some of our clients using their fonts online.
Selection of websites using Typotheque fonts
If you have implemented Typotheque fonts on your site, please let us know and we'll consider including a link here.
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 checkbox Small Caps will replace the standard lower case letters with true small capitals. You can turn the small caps on and off at any time, while keeping the same CSS code.
If you would like to combine Small Caps and regular lower case, you will need to create two separate webfont projects.
Since the version of Apple iOS 4.2, Mobile Safari in the iPhone and iPad support real fonts in TrueType and OpenType format. The previous version of iOS had to use SVG fonts when using @font-face feature.
Typotheque webfont system supports both SVG and TrueType fonts, to guarantee consistent rendering of webpages in mobile devices, so webfonts will show just fine on your iPad and iPhone regardless of which version of the iOS you use.
Yes, we do.
While in most cases we recommend using Typotheque webfont service, some clients require self-hosting of font files on web servers, which we allow provided the fonts are installed following special instructions. You will need to acquire a Server Licence.
To make the webfont files as small as possible, we remove some inaccessible glyphs, and users can specify languages to support. Licensed fonts can use as many as 5 languages, trial licences work with a single language. You can also specify custom sets, and preview the glyph set directly. Besides the letters needed to render the specific languages, we add following glyphs automatically to every language: !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@[\]_{|}†¢£§•®©™¥¿¡–—“”‘’¤‹›‰€«» ‹›
If you'd like to cancel the monthly webfonts subscription, simply log in to your account, go to My Webfonts, and either Disable, or Delete the active project. Alternatively, you can keep it Active, setting the Monthly Budget to 0 Euro (in Stats).
When reaching the limit of free 500MB per month, you will receive an invoice at the end of the month for the bandwidth that go over the free limit. There is currently no way to pre-pay the bandwidth, you receive an invoice after exceeding the limit.
You will be asked to pay by a credit card for the first monthly payment, and future extra bandwidth payments will automatically charge your credit card.
Quality of font rendering varies greatly depending on platform and application. Mac OSX uses a generic rendering algorithm which displays all fonts equally well and completely ignores font hinting. Windows on the other hand only displays well TrueType fonts which have been optimized (hinted) for the screen. Most problems are with very old versions of Windows 95, where ClearType rasterizer is turned OFF.
We offer two different kinds of fonts Screen fonts extensively hinted for the best results in small sizes for Windows, resulting in sharp legible text
http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/on_screen_reading
All other Typotheque fonts which are simply auto-hinted. Those will work just fine in all operating systems, but if majority of your users use old Windows, than we recommend that you use it in display sizes only (16pt higher). In either case, we recommend that you take the free webfont trial licence, so you can test the fonts in the real situation.
For more details about hinting and screen optimisation, please have a look at this explanation.
Typotheque webfont system offers a possibility to apply Small Caps replacing the standard lower case letters with true small capitals. Sometimes people accidentally turn this feature on, which results in seeing all capital text. You can turn the Small Caps on and off at any time directly in your Account > Webfonts. Because we use a large network of distributed servers, changing the settings take a few hours. In some cases it may take up to 24 to update all the servers and files.
A few users reported on issues with anti-aliasing of webfonts. Almost always these issues were local, and impossible to reproduce on other computers. While we don't know exactly the source of the problem, the problem seems to be caused by the OS, and not the fonts.
Using external monitors on MacOS is a possible problem, there is a bug in Snow Leopard that disables LCD font smoothing, and there is a Terminal command that fixes it. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090828224632809
This is a known Webkit bug — any text with @font-face applied will be rendered without anti-aliasing if there is a text element without anti-aliasing applied preceding it. The bug is described here: http://konstruktors.com/blog/web-design/3190-webkit-bug-anti-aliasing-for-font-face-fonts/
If you experience a similar problem, please report the specific applications and OS that you use.
We canʼt release fonts to users who haven’t agreed to the Typotheque EULA and bought a licence. We understand that it is difficult to make a decision as to whether a given typeface is suitable for your particular needs, which is why we offer several ways to preview and test our fonts both in print and on-screen.
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 our fonts function in print, you can request a free type specimen.
3. You can buy a single style of the font, test it yourself, then upgrade to a full package. 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 Upgrade Options.
4. If none of the above options suit your needs, 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 the list of fonts youʼd like to try. We will set the provided sample in our fonts and send you the PDF.
In some rare cases, for clients with references (usually newspaper or magazine designers), we provide a test licence.
You can ask 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, you have an existing account with us. If this is not your case and you would like to receive new typeface specimens from us, you can create a new account here (please do not create more than one account per person).
Please note that it may take several weeks to receive your type specimen, as we do mailings only four or five times a year.
Every Typotheque font comes with a PDF presentation, so download it to better evaluate our fonts.
If you need a custom PDF file, you can also use our testing tools: PDF Font Tester that makes a 300dpi image of the fonts, and Font Combinator allows testing various page layouts, creating your own font combinations or choosing from our presets.
The embedding of fonts in PDF documents is allowed provided that you set embedding to prevent the extraction of the fonts.
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, take advantage of the Typotheque Web Font Service to use the fonts online.
The embedding of fonts in Flash documents is allowed provided that you set embedding to prevent the extraction of the fonts, and that you donʼt resell the Flash documents/templates.
A special licence is required to use the fonts in electronic books, game playing devices, gaming and gambling devices irrespective of whether the device contains the font data or merely the designs of the fonts. For more information please get in touch.
The Typotheque End User Licence allows embedding of fonts in documents when you take reasonable measures to prevent font data extraction. Use the option ‘Embed characters in use only’, when creating the document to make the file smaller and to protect the fonts more. This way, the third party users are allowed to print and view the documents, but they are not allowed to edit them. To edit documents with embedded fonts, third party users will need their own font licence.
Currently, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint only support embedding of TrueType fonts.
To embed fonts into eBook readers you will need an extension of the Print & Web Licence. The price of the extension is calculated based on the number of units, price of the fonts, and price of the product. For more information, go to the Product embedding page.
Log in to your account with your old email address, and update your contact information.
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.
Typotheque doesnʼt have access to usersʼ passwords. If you have lost or forgotten your account password, you can generate a new one. Simply click on Login and Forgot Password.
We issue an electronic invoice for every order. 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.
In the case of font orders, we also issue a personalized licence agreement, also in PDF format.
Typotheque provides free backup of your fonts via your account. Anytime you want, you can log in, go to My Fonts and download the fonts you have licensed.
Typotheque uses CardGate for payment processing. Although the order is prepared on our website, the payment takes place on the CardGate website, which is secure. 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.
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 make absolutely sure that your information is protected both during and after your transaction. SSL is the industry standard for secure payment via most popular web browsers.
If you have previously purchased something on our website or have received type specimens from us, you already have an account with us. In that case, you donʼt need to create a new account, only 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.
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.
If you would like to receive free type specimens from Typotheque, go to your account, open your Account Settings and click the Send me the free printed type specimen checkbox. Note that it may take several weeks to receive your specimen, as we do mailings only four or five times per year.
If you accidentally created more than one account and you would like to merge them into one, you can do it by going to Account Settings and 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.
If, at any time after creating an account, or signing up for our mailing list, you change your mind about receiving information from us, you can simply unsubscribe from the mailing list.
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If you don't have an account, but you signed up to our mailing list directly, then enter your email again to the email field, and you will be offer a possibility to unsubscribe.
You can, of course, always send us a request per email specifying your new choice.
If you have received a code for a free font download, you can redeem it directly online. You will need to create an account before downloading the fonts.
1/ Go to http://www.typotheque.com/my_account and register a new account (if you don't have one already).
2/ After successful registration, go to 'Corporate Fonts' https://www.typotheque.com/my_account/corporate_fonts where you can enter your code.
3/ In the last step you will be prompted to agree with the End User Licence, so you can download the fonts.
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3/ Log in to your account on our website
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When you buy a license for the History fonts, you automatically get access to the online layering application History Remixer. You need to be logged in to your account to use History Remixer to generate PDF files.
History Remixer allows you to control the type layers and text separately. It doesn't, however, allow finer typographic control such as adjusting the tracking, kerning, individual character colour, etc. If you need these finer controls, you should first install the History fonts on your computer, then make a PDF file in History Remixer, and edit the PDF in Adobe Illustrator®.
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.
The grades of Greta Text and Greta Text Narrow were designed for print environment and are not available for online use. Those are very subtle details in weight, and in our tests they proved impossible to distinguish. If you plan to use Greta Text as a webfont, you should use one of the four available weights instead.
The x-height refers to the distance between the baseline and the top of the lower case line in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term).
The x-height is a relative measure of typeface, so different typefaces set in the same point size may appear differently. A typeface with a large x-height looks much bigger than a typeface with a small x-height at the same size. On the illustraton below, all letters were set in 72 points, yet resulting in different heights of the lower case. The relationship of the x-height to the em square defines the perceived type size.
1 Brioni; 2 Fedra Serif A; 3 Greta Sans; 4 Irma Text; 5 Jigsaw; 6 Greta Text; 7 Fedra Sans; 8 Nara; 9 Charlie
The point size (e.g. 72 pt) refers to the em-square of the typeface. All relative proportions of the typeface are determined within the absolute size of the em-square. The em-square unit is the same in all fonts at a given point size. Proportions of fonts (descender height, x-height, cap height, ascender height) are defined by the characteristics of a typeface and change from font to font.
When using Elementar in a browser, you can specify the CSS rule to ensure that the fonts are displayed without aliasing:
body { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }
Additionally, on the Mac, the 'halo' blur can be controlled with System Preferences > Appearance. Turn off text smoothing for font sizes.
Although we have taken student trainees in the past, currently we are not working with interns. We spend a lot of time outside of the office, which makes it difficult to dedicate time to students.
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