| Bitstream Releases Its Seventh
Set of Fonts from the New Font Collection Program Release includes nine new display and text fonts from international designers CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 26, 2003 — Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS ) announced today that it is releasing its seventh set of fonts from the New Font Collection program. The new release features display and text fonts from designers Ray Cruz, Nick Curtis, Archana Lothe, and Brian Sooy. All the fonts are available in PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats for both Windows and the Macintosh. All fonts are available for purchase:
The following typefaces are featured in our 1st Quarter, 2003 release :
"Bitstream's international design family continues to grow. Archana Lothe is the first designer from India to be published by the New Font Collection," said Jim Lyles, Director of Typographic Development at Bitstream. "In addition to Mrs. Lothe, we are excited to add two new designers to our NFC family - Ray Cruz and Brian Sooy - as well as old hand Nick Curtis. Besides Archana Lothe"s elegant Modakshar, this release also includes Cruz Cantera, a crisp and stylish yet informal sans serif typeface created by NYC type designer Ray Cruz. Also included is Brian Sooy's Arkeo typeface family. Given very few design elements to work with, Brian has designed a bitmap font that is handsome and very readable. In addition, Nick Curtis' Melina Plain and Melina Fancy are characterized by graceful lines, strong contrast, and nostalgic overtones. The NFC continues to thrive on the inspired works of these veteran designers." About the Designers Nick Curtis is a graphic designer with over thirty years of experience in print, A/V, broadcast television and the Web. He has been passionately interested in typography ever since he discovered a type specimen book in his early teens. A prolific type designer, Melina Plain and Fancy are Mr. Curtis' third releases with Bitstream. These typefaces are patterned after two members of a type family named Greco, released by Fundición Richard Gans of Madrid, Spain, in the 1920s. Melina Plain is a refined version of Greco h3, and Melina Fancy is based on Greco Adornado, with the notable addition of a lowercase, which was not a part of the original design. Archana Lothe has always had a love for calligraphy and type, and she believes that this was inherited from her forefathers. In the 19th century, Archana"s ancestors owned and operated a type foundry. Blessed with outstanding handwriting skills, her forefathers produced samples of carefully handwritten scripts, which they would convert to font formats suitable for printing purposes. Archana was inspired to create a Latin based typeface based on those traditional handwritten scripts. The result, Modakshar, is dedicated to the memory of her artisan forefathers. This is Archana"s first Latin typeface design. Brian Sooy
is the principal designer for Altered Ego Fonts, www.aefonts.com
(formerly known as Sooy Type Foundry, or STF), offering custom typeface
About The New Font Collection (NFC) Bitstream Inc. Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (http://www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion, MyFonts.com, and ThunderHawk are trademarks, of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Contact Bob Thomas |