Ascender Corp Provides Fonts to Open Handset Alliance

Ascender Corp, a leader in fonts for mobile phones, announced that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance and developing a collection of fonts that will be delivered as part of the Android platform. The fonts will be used as part of the User Interface and will provide support for multiple languages.

Elk Grove Village, IL (PRWEB) November 5, 2007 -- Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices, today announced that it has joined the Open Handset Alliance and is providing a variety of solutions for the Android platform.

The Android platform is a complete mobile software stack with everything a handset manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone. Ascender is developing a collection of fonts that will be delivered as part of the Android platform. The fonts will be used as part of the User Interface and will provide support for multiple languages.

More information on Ascender can be found here: http://www.ascendercorp.com/oha.html

More information on the Open Handset Alliance can be found here: http://www.openhandsetalliance.com

About Ascender

Ascender® Corporation is a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices. Ascender's founders are font industry experts and have been involved in developing many of the most important and influential fonts used in computers and mobile devices. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development and mobile phone applications for a wide range of customers including creative professionals, enterprises and hardware & software developers. Ascender also provides fonts for download to graphic designers through the www.AscenderFonts.com website and to consumers through the www.FontMarketplace.com website.

Contact:

Bill Davis

Ascender Corporation

25 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 225, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA

Phone: (847) 357 0730

Fax: (847) 357 0731

http://www.ascendercorp.com

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