What vendors sell fonts for PostScript printers?

PostScript font vendors are many and varied. Here is a partial list.

Adobe Systems

sells a variety of fonts. With the huge number of third-party Type 1 vendors, in recent years Adobe have specialized in creating their own ``Adobe Originals'' - high-quality fonts, some of which are their renditions of classic faces (Adobe Garamond) and some of their own devising (Stone, Utopia, ...). Adobe Systems, 1585 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA 94039. (415) 961-4400

AGFA Compugraphic,

90 Industrial Way, Wilmington, Massachusetts 01887. (508) 658-5600.

Bear Rock Technologies

specializes in bar code fonts. 4140 Mother Lode Drive, Suite 100, Shingle Springs California 95682.

Bitstream,

Athenaeum House, Cambridge, MA 02142. (617) 497-6222.

Callifonts

has a really nice looking set of calligraphy typefaces. P.O. Box 224891, Dallas, TX 75222. (214) 504-8808.

Casady and Greene,

22734 Portola Drive, Salinas, CA 93908. (408) 484-9228.

Ecological Linguistics,

specializes in non-Roman alphabets. Ecological Linguistics, P. O. Box 15156, Washington D. C. 20003.

Emigre Graphics

4475 ``D'' Street / Sacramento CA 95819 (800) 944 9021] Over 70 faces, all PostScript Type 1 ATM compatible, including the omnipresent Modula and infamous Template Gothic. Almost all faces are ``must haves'' for graphic designers. Call for free catalog.

The Font Company

12629 North Tatum Boulevard, Suite 210, Phoenix Arizona 85032. (602) 998-9711.

Image Club,

#5 1902 11th St Southeast, Calgary, Alberta T2G 2G2, Canada. (403) 262-8008.

Lanston

specializes in display faces.

Letraset

specializes in fancy kinds of script fonts, Letraset, 40 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus, New Jersey 07652. (201) 845-6100

Linguists Software

specializes in non-Roman alphabets (Farsi, Greek, Hangul, Kanji, etc.) Linguists Software, P. O. Box 580, Edmonds, Washington 98020-0580. (206) 775-1130.

Monotype,

53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 504, Chicago, IL 60604.

Page Studio Graphics,

Chandler, Arizona, specialize in symbols fonts such as Mac icons, keyboards, and others, Page Studio Graphics, 3175 North Price Road, #1050, Chandler, Arizona 85224. (602) 839-2763.

Software Complement

specializes in creating logo fonts. 8 Penn Avenue, Metamoras, Pennsylvania 18366 USA.

The Font Company

TreacyFaces

Trilithon Software,

Portola Valley, California can supply fonts from the Adobe Type library for NEXTSTEP. If you're working on NEXTSTEP, getting fonts in the correct form with ancillary information and downloaders and such is important. You can convert Mac fonts to NEXTSTEP (PFA) format, but NEXTSTEP demands AFM files as well, and many Mac/PC font vendors omit AFM files because Mac/PC apps don't use them. For Adobe fonts for NEXTSTEP, save yourself a lot of hassle by getting the fonts from Trilithon.

If you want non-Adobe fonts for NEXTSTEP, Trilithon Software can supply font conversion tools to go from Macintosh or PC format to NEXTSTEP format. The conversion tools generate AFM files if none are supplied with the fonts, and sanity check AFM files for correctness when they are supplied.

Two Ohlone, Portola Valley, California 94028 USA. Telephone: (415) 325-0767, FAX: (415) 325-0768. E-Mail: info@trilithon.com.

URW

supplies high-quality fonts at low prices. They are also the creators of the top of the line font creation and editing software called Ikarus. URW, 4 Manchester Street, Nashua, New Hampshire 03060. (603) 882-7445.

Y and Y Software

, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle Massachusetts 10741 USA. (508) 371-3286. Sells a Font Metric Manipulation Package for DOS with lots of interesting utilities.

Many more font vendors exist. Look in magazines and other sources. Check the Usenet newsgroup comp.fonts. Look in U&lc, published by ITC, for long lists of vendors.