SUPPORT - Need help with installing your OpenType fonts (.otf)?
Please follow the instructions for Installing Mac PostScript Type 1 (OS X) if you are working with Mac OSX, or Installing: PC Truetype if you are working with Windows.
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The easiest way is just to double click on the Installer Icon and follow the prompts. This will copy the fonts to the correct place on your hard drive.
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SUPPORT - Need help with installing your fonts under Mac OS 8.x and 9.x?
If you’re not using a font management utility, just drag the fonts in the ‘Fonts’ folder inside your ‘System folder’.
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SUPPORT - Need help with installing your fonts under Windows 2000 or XP?
On a PC the PostScript fonts consist out of four files: .pfb, .pfm, .afm and .inf.
Windows 2000 and XP have native PostScript support, it’s not necessary to use a third party font managment utility.
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SUPPORT - Need help with installing your fonts under Windows 95, 98 and ME?
On a PC the PostScript fonts consist out of four files: .pfb, .pfm, .afm and .inf.
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SUPPORT - Need help with installing your TrueType fonts under Windows?
All the font data is in one single file with a .ttf extension. Windows has native support for TrueType fonts. Your font files should be stored at ‘C:\WINDOWS\Fonts’ (the Fonts folder is accessible through the Control Panel).
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When you ‘buy’ fonts, you are actually buying a license to use the Characters Font Software. After the purchase, you automatically acquire a single-user license, permitting you to use it on one computer. As with any other software, fonts are licensed on a per-computer basis, so if you need to use the fonts on more than one computer, you need to buy an additional (multiple user) license. But unlike most software, you can extend your license to include additional computers for a substantial discount compared to the original price.
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CHARACTERS IN USE - The famous Dutch design studio Faydherbe / de Vringer uses Insider Stencil as the main font for their corporate identity. The fresh fluorescent colours and their design make it a very contemporary corporate identity.
FRESH FONT - Boris Kahl from Volcano Type asked me if I would like to submit a font for their new Bastard book.
The idea behind Bastard was to bring together photographers, writers, illustrators, graphic designers, musicians and typographers to create a solid and unique book that also functions as a work of art. Bastard is all about cultural identity and the development of new things by sampling, mixing and crossing.
Beside pictures from the photographer Christian Ernst and illustrations from Andre Rösler, the new fonts will be presented. Writers all around the world contributed short stories to complete the book.
CHARACTERS IN USE - One of the early pioneers working with Nordic Narrow is Magnus Holder Bjørk at Magnusland. He used Nordic Narrow as the leading font for the Signaler Exposition in Norway.
Through an early presale he had the change to be one of the first designers to work with it. And I must say, he did a fantastic job. Here are some of the images Magnus sent me of Nordic Narrow in use.
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Founded by Rene Verkaart in 2004, Characters Font Foundry is an independent Dutch type foundry, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for creative designers. Characters specializes in creating custom typefaces for corporate identities and packaging.
