Ascender Corp introduces its first typeface family, Endurance

This newly designed set of fonts is targeted at corporate branding and developers of software & hardware products. Endurance features an extended language character set and typographic extras.

Elk Grove Village, IL (PRWEB) June 9, 2004 --Ascender Corporation, specialists in multilingual and custom font development, today announced their first typefaces targeted for viewing on-screen as well as in print. Endurance is a comprehensive typeface family with a variety of weights from light to black with true italics. It was designed to fill the need for an industrial strength sans serif typeface that includes Greek, Cyrillic and Eastern European characters.

Endurance is useful for corporate branding, print publishing and embedded systems. Its fresh design enhances the creative palette for designers, while its extensive character set meets the needs of multinational companies who create communications throughout the US and Europe. It was designed with on-screen legibility as a key attribute for hardware and software developers.

The typeface family is available now for evaluation and licensing to corporate identity design firms, and to software and hardware developers. A preview of the font can be found at: http://www.ascendercorp.com/Endurance.html

Endurance's design follows the Swiss model of Grotesque sans serifs yet it adds a layer of warmth not often found in this genre. Capital letters tend to be less constricted in proportion than other popular Grotesques (Arial and Helvetica for instance) and its careful detailing gives a more refined appearance in large sizes. Terminals are shorter and counters are more open giving a brighter appearance in text in both print and on screen. The italics are designed and not algorithmically slanted. Endurance's character set will appeal to creative professionals and publishers with its extended collection of superiors, inferiors, fractions, small capitals, non-lining figures and an extended ligature set.

Endurance was designed by Steve Matteson, a partner in Ascender Corporation. The name Endurance lends itself to the fact that the typeface was designed to work well under extreme conditions from billboards to mobile phone screens. The proliferation of grotesque sans serifs motivated Steve to find a way to develop one with a warmer tone while retaining the no-nonsense feel of this type style.

About Ascender Corp
Ascender Corporation is a Chicago-based company specializing in multilingual, custom font development, licensing and typographic problem solving. The company's founders have been involved in developing some of the most important and influential fonts in use today in computers, mobile phones and printers. Ascender has a talented team with the expertise to solve complex font technology issues, the imagination to create font branding solutions, and the initiative to create value for our customers.

Contact
Bill Davis, Ascender Corporation
525 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 975, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA
Phone: (847) 357 0730 ext. 10
Fax: (847) 357 0731
Email: press@ascendercorp.com

Trademarks: Endurance and Ascender are trademarks of Ascender Corporation which may be registered in the US Patent and Trademark office and certain other jurisdictions. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners