Ascender Fonts for Displays
Digital TV, DVD, PDAs, Phones, Games, Computers and Consumer Electronics Products
Ascender has one of the most comprehensive font collections available for hardware and software developers in the Digital TV, Entertainment and Consumer Electronics markets. These devices all share a common need: high quality fonts that are tuned for optimal display on-screen.
Ascender specializes in solving the many issues that software and hardware companies face. This includes fonts with specific language support or engineered for certain display sizes & resolutions. Ascender understands the ROM and RAM constraints and offers compact fonts with a small, fast, high quality font engine.
The following are various font solutions that Ascender offers that meet specific industry standards and specifications:
Fonts for Digital TVs and Set Top Boxes
- Closed Captioning Font Set: (United States EIA-708-B standard for Digital TV Closed Captioning) The Ascender TV Font Collection consists of seven different font styles as mandated by the FCC. These fonts make closed captioning text readable and attractive. More information on CC TV fonts.
- Segoe TV: Ascender is proud to offer the Segoe TV family of fonts from Microsoft. Originally developed for MSNTV, these are now availalbe for licensing. More information on Segoe TV.
- DVB and MHP Font Standard: Ascender offers Mayberry™, a font compatible with Tiresias™, which is referenced in various standards including DAVIC, DVB, DTG, ISO, MHP & OCAP digital TV standards. More information on DVB and MHP Fonts.
- Fonts for User Interfaces: Ascender has a selection of fonts that have been created specifically for optimal screen rendering such as in User Interfaces. More information on Fonts for User Interfaces.
Teletext Fonts
Ascender offers different fonts for Teletext support. The Teletext character set includes alphamosiac characters and Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. Ascender can provide Teletext fonts in a variety of formats, and can also modify fonts for specific aspect ratios if desired. More information on Teletext fonts.
ARIB Font Support
Ascender can provide Japanese fonts to support the ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Business) specification. Ascender has a variety of Japanese fonts with different design styles to choose from. For more information on Japanese fonts with ARIB support, please contact us.
HD DVD Fonts
High Definition DVD (HD DVD) offers high quality typography on the big screen! Ascender is proud to offer HD DVD authors and developers a wide range of font styles and languages to display high quality text on screen. For more information on HD DVD fonts.
Fonts for Mobile Phones & Devices
Ascender has a variety of solutions for mobile devices. This includes fonts for the User Interface, with specific language support, or for different Mobile OS environments and renderers. More information on Fonts for Mobile Devices.
Asian Fonts for Mobile Devices
DigiType Compact Asian is a new technology targeted at consumer electronics and mobile device manufacturers to display high quality Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts with significantly reduced memory requirements over standard TrueType® fonts. More information on DigiType Compact Asian fonts
Fonts for Game Developers
Gamer designers understand the need to select fonts with the right personality to resonate with their audience. Ascender has an developed an extensive font catalog with diverse type styles, and offers flexible font licensing that game developers require. See a catalog of Fonts for Game Developers.
Font Engines
Ascender offers two font engines: the Microsoft font rasterizer and the FreeType font engine. The Microsoft font rasterizer has renowned quality because of its support for patented TrueType hints. FreeType is the leading open-source font rendering engine. Both provide support for the features popular with developers. Ascender has developed enhanced features such as edge effects and compact Asian font support as part of implementing these font engines into its Ascender Font System. More information on font engines.
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