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AFP and Xerox fonts

AFP Fonts
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Font services

Corporate font services

Corporate Identity Typeface Design
The use of the correct fonts is important to your company. Fonts can convey the style with which your customers will associate your brand and products. Many companies have their own custom corporate fonts designed in order to associate a particular look and feel with their company alone.

There are several examples over the last few years where major institutions have re-branded with their own corporate font such as NatWest Bank, Barclays Bank, and Sainsbury's. Perhaps the most famous example of corporate font design is that of London Underground. The London Underground typeface 'Johnston' was drawn up in 1916 by Edward Johnston, and became the typeface we now know as 'New Johnston' in 1980. The font is now used on all station signs, underground maps, and information booklets, and is instantly recognisable all around the world.

The most important benefit of custom corporate font design is that you, the customer, can own the copyright and trademark of the font. This means that you can freely distribute the font, you can have an unlimited number of users of the font within your company, and no one else can use this font because you own it. This scenario means there are no legal issues to contend with whatsoever.

The Web, in particular, reveals the economic advantages to large companies of owning their own typeface. Standard fonts require a license for a certain number of users, and do not include distribution rights. Therefore, if you want to embed the font in a multimedia product or CD-ROM, or make a document available on the Web which embeds this particular font, you have a licensing problem.

Finally, having a custom font designed can often be less expensive than purchasing a large multi-user or site license for your company. Please feel free to approach Terrapin to discuss the options.

AFP and Xerox fonts
Terrapin specialises in IBM AFP and Xerox high-speed printer resources, so we have particular expertise with AFP fonts and Xerox fonts.

Font Licensing
As typeface users, it can be difficult for companies to stay on the right side of the law. If your company uses a font which you don't hold a license for, or copy the font onto more computers or printers than you are licensed for, you may be breaking the law.

Terrapin has been working with fonts and font licensing for over 10 years and because the rules are constantly changing, you are always best advised to approach us with any legal queries.

We can also offer a font license management solution - a piece of software that will audit your company's fonts and help you to get or remain legal. Please contact Terrapin for further information.

Signature & Logo Fonts
Terrapin can create outline fonts from your company's logo or signatures. There are several advantages to treating graphics as fonts. The graphics can be scaled to any size without loss of quality.

Graphics can be changed on a page by page basis by simply indexing another font, which in turn can increase the efficiency of your printers and allow them to run at manufacturer's rated speed.

Bitmap to Outline Fonts
In rare instances where no outline equivalents exist for your bitmap fonts, Terrapin can create Type 1 or TrueType outlines from your bitmaps, on a font by font basis. Then you can use your bitmap fonts in MS Windows applications instead of using font substitution tables. This may turn out to be a time consuming process but we would be happy to discuss your requirements with you.

Custom Font Services

Add non-Latin alphabets to existing licensed fonts that your company may use

Have your company logos added to existing fonts

Have new characters designed in the style of your chosen font

TrueType Font Hinting
With the advance of the internet and eCommerce, the visual representation of fonts on screen has become increasingly important. While your fonts may look fine on the printed page, how will they look on screen at smaller point sizes, or in your PowerPoint presentation?

The need for clearly legible screen fonts has become a necessity, both for the impression they make on your customers and to protect the health of employees who may spend all day looking at a computer monitor.

Optimising your fonts by adding hinting and/or intelligence to the font's outline makes them more legible by preventing letters becoming distorted or difficult to read. If you are not satisfied with the appearance of your on-screen documents, font hinting may be the answer. If you think you may be interested in having your fonts hinted, please contact Terrapin. We can even produce a comparative example of your hinted font before you agree to purchase anything.

Foreign Language Fonts
Our standard character sets contain all of the Latin characters which are required for printing in Western European countries and the Americas, but of course there are numerous other languages that your business may need to print in order to compete in the global marketplace.

We work closely with a number of linguist font specialists to provide the correct character sets for each foreign language application.

Some of our notable achievements in this field are:

The implementation of Thai fonts for a large credit card company's billing system in Thailand

A custom set of fonts to enable a large Welsh utility company to support the Welsh language.

A project to supply a Jordanian company with a specialised set of custom Arabic fonts.

Whatever language is required we are sure that we can provide a service for you.

Euro Symbol
European Monetary Union commenced on January 1, 1999 for participating EU countries. As part of the need for monetary identity, the EU decided that a new symbol should be created to define the Euro. Because the symbol was designed in logo format, it is frequently difficult to fit it into your existing character sets. Terrapin offers several euro symbol solutions such as euro symbol design, euro insertion services, and a software package that allows you to generate euro symbols on-the-fly in all of your fonts. See euro services for more.