Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, is pleased to announce that a new font called Friar Pro™ is available for purchase and download from AscenderFonts.com.
Friar Pro is a brand new revival of a truly American design by this country’s most prolific type designer, Frederic W. Goudy. His typeface, Friar, was originally completed in 1937 and was a groundbreaking approach to type design. Goudy designed Friar by combining various lettering styles from the 4th through 7th centuries into a type design rather than slavishly follow a single model.
Steve Matteson developed Ascender Corp’s Friar Pro as a tribute to Goudy and his joy of type design and typographic exploration. Steve created a complete character set with OpenType typographic enhancements to give the Friar Pro font an authentic appearance to the original. The OpenType features in Friar Pro includes alternative letterforms, ligatures and ornaments designed by Goudy for creating dignified typographic arrangements. Friar Pro is a beautiful design that imparts a scribal appearance to any document including greeting cards, certificates and official papers.
Friar Pro is available for instant download in both TrueType and OpenType formats for Windows and Mac OS X.
A 10-page Type Specimen booklet in PDF format showcasing Friar Pro is also available for free download.
In honor of Memorial Day, Ascender Corp. is proud to announce that it will donate 100% of all proceeds from the sale our newest font, Friar Pro, from now through June 30, 2009, to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. This non-profit organization supports the men and women of the Armed Forces, including families of military personnel lost in service to America, and for severely wounded military personnel and veterans.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on May 22, 2009
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