Worldwide Fonts

Bitstream offers a wide variety of worldwide, Unicode encoded, multi-language fonts for developers, including Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Devanagari, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Cyrillic and WGL fonts. Our world-renowned, award-winning library of worldwide, international, Unicode fonts includes an extensive collection of high-quality fonts in OpenType, TrueType, and PostScript Type 1 formats for Windows, the Macintosh, Unix, and Linux.

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Bitstream MobileFont

Bitstream MobileFont is a condensed sans serif font optimized for implementation on mobile devices, such as cells phones, PDAs and other low-resolutoin devices where text is displayed. Offered in two weights, Roman and Bold, Bitstream MobileFont is expertly hinted for optimal screen output and readability. Its narrow body width maximizes valuable screen real estate. Bitstream MobileFont features extensive language coverage including Western, Central and Eastern European Latin-based languages, as well as full OpenType line layout support for Arabic, Devangari, Hebrew and Thai.

Bitstream Screen eXcellence (SX) fonts

Bitstream SX fonts are highly hinted TrueType fonts, selected from the Bitstream Typeface Library for their ability to render superior low-resolution screen output. The TrueType font format allows for advanced hinting techniques that can produce hand-edited bitmap quality for unexcelled low-resolution screen output. The character set of Bitstream SX fonts has been extended to support Central European characters. Periodic releases of the more popular typefaces are planned. Custom requests are welcomed.

Bitstream Stroke-based Asian fonts

Because of their large character sets, standard TrueType format Asian fonts often pose a challenge to the memory requirements of small devices. Bitstream's stroke-based font technology offers a compact Asian font solution that is a fraction (10%) of the memory footprint of a comparable TrueType font. Bitstream offers many the Asian stroke-based fonts in most of the standard Chinese, Japanese and Korean character sets, including a CITS certified GB18030-2005 Chinese stroke font.

Bitstream Simplified Chinese Stroke Font GB18030 2005

Bitstream offers a GB18030-2005 CITS certified simplified stroke font. The GB18030-2005 certified compact stroke-based font is just under 1 MB in size – less than one-tenth the size of a traditional TrueType Asian font.

BitsHei - Certified Chinese GB18030-2000 font

Bitstream offers a GB18030-2000 CITS certified TrueType font called BitsHei. A simple sans serif design of book weight, BitsHei has a targeted size range of 25 - 50 ppem, providing an ideal extended solution for low resolution display devices that are required to use the Chinese government bitmaps for sizes below 25 ppem.

Tiresias ScreenFont

Tiresias Screenfont (current version 8.04) was originally designed by a team led by Dr. John Gill, Chief Scientist for the Royal National Institute for the Blind. The RNIB developed Tiresias Screenfont in response to the need to improve text for television subtitling. The DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) organization has adopted the Tiresias Screenfont as the standard font for the MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), which many set-top box and digital TV manufacturers are using as their standard development platform. The DVB is a Swiss-based industry organization representing a common standard for digital TV, which has been adopted extensively in Europe. Tiresias Screenfont has also been adopted as the standard font for closed captioning.

Bitstream CCTV fonts for Closed Captioning

Bitstream has assembled this collection of seven fonts that support the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements for closed captioning display on digital and analog TVs. All the fonts are fully compliant with the requirements found in the EIA-708-B specification. Included in this collection is Tiresias Screenfont, which has been adopted as the standard font for closed captioning by many organizations such as the DTG, DVB and MHP.