Ascender Corporation today announced the release the Ascender Creativity Font Pack for Mac OS X. The product includes a fresh variety of text, display and script fonts licensed from leading type designers, along with an assortment of design tools. This new release compliments the Windows version announced in September.
The Ascender Creativity Font Pack features 30 world-class OpenType fonts, 40 professionally-designed templates for Microsoft Word, the Ascender Font Selector utility and design tips & tricks from renowned author Roger C. Parker. It is value-priced at $19.99 and is available as an electronic download from the www.ascenderfonts.com website.
“We are proud to bring an affordable set of true professional-quality fonts and design tools to Macintosh users at home, school or an office” said Ira Mirochnick, President of Ascender Corporation. “This is truly an impressive collection of fonts, and combined with the templates and other content will help Mac users create more attractive documents.”
Real fonts from real type designers
Ascender worked with leading type designers and foundries to assemble a set of fonts that normally sell for over $500 if purchased separately. Participants included Gunnlauger SE Briem, Chank, Elsner + Flake, The Font Bureau, Steve Matteson, Steve Mehallo, Microsoft, Thomas Rickner and Mark Simonson. Each of the fonts had to meet Ascender’s exacting quality standards, including 384 characters for extensive European language coverage.
More than just fonts
The Ascender Creativity Font Pack also includes a variety of helpful design tools to put the fonts into action. There are over 40 smart-looking templates for Microsoft Word that are ready to personalize. They cover a diverse range of activities: cards, invitations, stationery, certificates, flyers, scrapbooks, forms and more for personal and business tasks. The Ascender Font Selector is a new utility for selecting the right font for the right situation. It allows users to browse through font previews organized by personality, occasion and type classification. Also included in the product is Roger C. Parker’s Design Tips – an illustrated design guide with a baker’s dozen tips and tricks from Roger C. Parker, author of 35 books on desktop publishing, design and marketing.
System Requirements
The Ascender Creativity Font Pack requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later, 20 MB of available disk space, and an internet connection to purchase and download the product. Microsoft Word is required for the templates.
ABOUT ASCENDER CORPORATION
Ascender Corporation is a provider of advanced font products specializing in font design, development and licensing. Ascender’s founders are font industry experts, and have been involved in developing some of the most important and influential fonts used in computers, phones and printers. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development for enterprises and hardware & software developers. Ascender also provides high quality fonts for immediate download from the Ascender Font Store website (https://www.ascenderfonts.com).
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on November 2, 2005
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