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Companies that produce type related utilities, tools and applications.

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Adobe Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Adobe provides a selection of high-quality Type 1 type, available in Adobe Font Folio, Adobe Type Basics, Adobe Type Browser, Adobe Type On Call, and Adobe WebType, and type utilities.
   email: webmaster@adobe.com

Alpona PortalRegistered vendor information
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address. We have been developing our localized fonts (for Bengali) for the last 3 years.
   email: ranju@akshor.com

Altek Instruments Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Altek Instruments have a wide range of innovative products relating to the Barcode, Data Collection and Automatic ID industries.
   email: info@barcodeman.com

Altsys / Made with Fontographer Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Altsys Fontographer is now Macromedia Fontographer.

Apple Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
The Apple Font/Tools Group is responsible for the fonts and font technology that ships with Apple products and operating systems. The also distribute free font tools, specs and font recipes.
   email: applefonts@apple.com

Arabetics Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
A private type foundry, and a design and consulting firm, specializing primarily in (but not limited to) non-traditional Arabic and Arabetic font design and lettering works, and associated software solutions.
   email: contact@arabetics.com

Arphic Technology Co. Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Arphic Technology offers a wide variety of products to satisfy the needs for fonts and e-commerce products of all customer groups.
   email: market@arphic.com.tw

Artext Open site in new browser window
Artext is described as a "Windows only, friendly colour image to readable typo tool"

Ascender Corporation Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
box shot 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 affordable, high quality fonts - including Microsoft fonts - for immediate download from the Ascender Font Store website. The Ascender Creativity Font Pack is a value-priced, inspiring collection of fonts, templates and design tools to enhance Microsoft Office.
   email: info@ascendercorp.com

Azalea Software, Inc. Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Azalea Software (the last remaining Aldus spin-off) started on the kitchen table late at night and has grown over the years into the oldest digital foundry specializing in bar code and OCR fonts. We love what we do and we hope it shows.
   email: info@azalea.com

Balarad
Site may have disappeared or moved from its last known address, balarad.sk/sw/fa/index.htm. Balarad is small company located in Slovak Republic, Presov. The developed a program called FontAssist for searching of TrueType fonts for people who need to recognise font from printed or scanned sample or just find proper font for their project. User selects several most important attributes of font and program finds all matching fonts (current version supports 5300+ fonts).
   email: balarad@vadium.sk

Barcodesoft Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
We produce Windows applications, tools or utilities for barcode printing, including Font, ActiveX component, Dot Net server control and a lot more.
   email: support@barcode-soft.com

Bigelow & HolmesRegistered vendor information
Bigelow & Holmes Lucida typefaces are currently distributed by Ascender Corp.

Bitstream Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Bitstream is an independent supplier of typeface products and technologies to the printing, publishing, graphic arts and electronic publishing industries.
   email: info@bitstream.com

Bizfonts.com Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
At BizFonts.com you will find bar code and ID fonts including MICR E-13B, CMC-7, OCR, POSTNET, PLANET, PDF417, Code 39, Code 128, DataMatrix, Codabar, UPC, EAN, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI Plessey, and many more.
   email: admin@idautomation.com

Blissym Language Institute Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
BLI is developing tools to support the graphical international language invented by Charles K. Bliss.

BlueFive software Open site in new browser window
David de Groot's BlueFive freeware produce Fontpage, a tool that lets you examine and compare all fonts on your system.
   email: ddg@pandora.be

BoyBeaver FontsRegistered vendor information
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://boybeaver.com/. Create & Communicate with BoyBeaver Fonts. We are designers creating type to meet your most exacting typographic needs. Featuring the first publication ever of the complete collection of font designs by the eminent 19th century typographer A.A. Turbayne. Our collection is solidly founded on typographic excellence.
   email: boybeaver@boybeaver.com

H.W. Caslon & Company Ltd.Registered vendor information
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address.

H.W. Caslon & Company Limited offers a digital type library drawn from the remarkable range of types historically stocked by the Caslon Foundry, founded in 1720 by William Caslon I, England's greatest punch-cutter.
   email: info@hwcaslon.com

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
CDAC has been the leading solution provider for Indian Languages on Microsoft Windows.
   email: gist@cdac.ernet.in

China Type Designs Ltd. Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
China Type Design Ltd (CTDL) is the design and production centre of asian fonts of Monotype font library.
   email: ctdl@monotype.com.hk

CIA (BAR CODES) UK Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
CIA (BAR CODES) UK creates original TrueType bar code font packages.

Corel Corporation Open site in new browser window
By including hundreds of fonts with their graphics packages, Corel is an important source of fonts for many users.

CR8 Software Solutions Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
CR8 Software Solutions produces OpenType font design/editing software and barcode fonts.
   email: allanmurray@cr8software.net

D3K
Apparently M. Cocco's Typecom new font editor project has been scrapped - last known address, http://www.mdlive.com/d3k/.
   email: mcocco@hotmail.com

Datascan bv Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Datascan creates print solutions and is a font competence center for a wide portfolio of fonts and licenses. Among other things TrueType, delta hinting, PCL, PostScript and custom made (house style) fonts includes the service.
   email: hpsolutions@datascan.nl

Dave Emmett's Softy page Open site in new browser window
This new page links to more information for users, versions of the software with corrected contact information for registration and support and will be a permanent home.

DCSi Open site in new browser window
With Font F/X, anyone can add dramatic 3D graphic impact to Web pages, documents, and business presentations.
   email: webmaster@dcsifx.com

DecoTypeRegistered vendor information
DecoType, a Dutch company, has developed novel technology for creating uncompromising authentic Arabic calligraphy with the computer.
   email: info@decotype.com

DeinerSoft
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2247/. Howard Deiner is giving away his Font-O-Matic product, an explorer style font manager for Windows.

Delve Fonts Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information

Delve's logo

Delve Fonts is an independent, multi-disciplinary studio in Berkeley, California providing quality digital typography.

Design Science Inc. Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Design Science produces MathType, a mathematical equation editor for Windows and Macintosh computers.
   email: info@dessci.com

Diamond Soft Open site in new browser window
Font Reserve is a font management product for the Mac. According to its authors Font Reserve is unlike existing font managers that require users to manage physical font files. Font Reserve takes complete control of fonts and provides an intelligent, flexible and easy-to-use browser interface. Acquired by Extensis.

DS Design
Site may have moved or disappeared from its last known address, http://www.dsdesign.com/td.htm. Type Designer is a budget font editing and conversion application.
   email: sales@dsdesign.com

DTP-Software Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Offering professional font software, such as Type-Designer, FontLab, ScanFont, TypeTool, SigMaker, FontExpert as well as technical font service.
   email: sales@dtpsoft.de

Dubl-Click Software Open site in new browser window
Dubl-Click make font related utilities for Windows and the Mac.
   email: info@dublclick.com

Dutch Type Library Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
DTL The Dutch Type Library(DTL) is a developer and publisher of exclusive high quality digital typefaces and a producer of professional software for the font production, which operates on an international basis. Established in the spring of 1990, it was the first of its kind in the Netherlands. DTL was founded by the type designer and Senior Lecturer Frank E. Blokland. The Dutch Type Library has set out to produce and publish types of the highest possible quality. This standard not only applies to the type designs but to their digital descriptions as well.
   email: info@dutchtypelibrary.com

DynaLab Open site in new browser windowRegistered vendor information
Based in Taiwan, DynaLab is the largest font house in Asia.
   email: info@dynalab.com

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