Bitstream Releases NFC: Volume 1; New Product Release Includes 25 Display and Text Fonts From the New Font Collection's Inaugural Year

Business Wire, March 13, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002

Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that it is releasing a new font collection, NFC: Volume 1. This new product is culled from the New Font Collection program's first year of releases. It features 25 display and text fonts from an international assembly of typeface designers.

All the fonts will be available in PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats for both Windows and the Macintosh.

NFC: Volume 1 is available as a download-only product from Bitstream.

-- Aphasia(TM) by Charles Gibbons

-- Artane Elongated(TM) by Tony Fahy

-- Cavalero, Stingwire, and Tannarin by Brian Bonislawsky

-- Drescher Grotesk Semi-Bold, Bold, and Small Sizes by Nicolai

The following typefaces are featured on the NFC: Volume 1.

-- Aphasia(TM) by Charles Gibbons

-- Artane Elongated(TM) by Tony Fahy

-- Cavalero, Stingwire, and Tannarin by Brian Bonislawsky

-- Drescher Grotesk Semi-Bold, Bold, and Small Sizes by Nicolai

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-- Eroxion(TM) by Eduardo Manso

-- FM Rustling Branches Moon(TM)and FM Falling Leaves Moon(TM)by Charles Gibbons and Mary Trafton

-- Hank(TM)by Holly Goldsmith

-- Lindisfarne Nova and Lindisfarne Nova Bold by Harry Pears of Typeface Research and Margaret Layson

-- Liorah(TM)by Holly Goldsmith

-- Melanie(TM)by Holly Goldsmith

-- Missy(TM)by Holly Goldsmith

-- Picayune Intelligence(TM)by Nick Curtis

-- Raven and Raven Evermore by Holly Goldsmith

-- Richfont Medium(TM)by Richard Hubbard

-- Rina(TM)and Rina Linea(TM)by Eduardo Manso

-- Ryan(TM)by Holly Goldsmith

-- SissyBoy(TM)by Kate Peters

"Together with Iowan Old Style: The Complete Family, this new product underscores our resolve to bring together high-quality typefaces from designers all over the world," said Jim Lyles, Director of Typographic Development at Bitstream and designer of a variety of fonts, including the Prima font family. "This release pulls together all of the new fonts from the NFC's first year (except for the Iowan Old Style expert sets, which are offered in a separate release). We have a superb lineup of new designs for future releases and we are excited about this, the first of many annual NFC collections."

About the Designers

Brian Bonislawsky is a graduate from Rhode Island School of Design. Before graduating with a BFA & Certificate in Illustration, he had studied hand cut lettering, dimensional letter construction, working with hot type, and type on the computer. In the years since his graduation, Bonislawsky has established Astigmatic One Eye Foundry (www.astigmatic.com), an online typeface and graphic design business. Cavalero, Stingwire and Tannarin represent an ever-growing collection of Bonislawsky type designs, with many more to come.

Nick Curtis is a graphic designer with over thirty years of experience in print, A/V, broadcast television and the Web. He has been passionately interested in typography ever since he discovered a type specimen book in his early teens. A prolific type designer, Picayune Intelligence is Mr. Curtis' first release with Bitstream. A slab serif design with an Art Deco motif, the typeface is named after a fictitious newspaper in a popular 60's cartoon show.

Tony Fahy, born in Ireland, is a type designer and typographer living and working in Carrigallen, Co Leitrim. His first type creation was a Gaelic typeface called "Padraig," which won a Chartpak competition. Artane, Fahy's first typeface for Bitstream, has a specific philosophy at the core of its creation. He decided he would try to create a Roman sans that would have the elegance of a serif italic such as Stempel Garamond, Bembo, or Baskerville. Artane is the result!

Charles Gibbons' and Mary Trafton's Full Moon Suite is an open-ended, collaborative design project. All of the typefaces under this banner will be called after "folk" names for full moons. The first two, FM Rustling Branches Moon and FM Falling Leaves Moon, are casual lettering styles developed by Ms. Trafton and brought to typographic life by Mr. Gibbons. Aphasia, an Art Deco inspired typeface designed by Mr. Gibbons, is also included on NFC: Volume 1.

Nicolai Gogoll was born in Hamburg, Germany and began to study design in 1991 at the Fachhochschule Hamburg. In 1999, Mr. Gogoll was awarded the Kurt Christians Award for his successful revival of Arno Drescher's Super Grotesk. Drescher Grotesk, named in honor of the designer, is a sturdy German geometric design, consisting of seven roman weights, including a version designed for use at small point sizes. Three weights are offered with this release, Semi-Bold, Bold and Small Sizes.

Holly Goldsmith's Raven, with its Gothic feel, is the perfect typeface to gain that little bit of an edge. Both Raven and its bolder mate, Raven Evermore, work beautifully in text and display sizes. Extra hidden characters, four ravens that augment its Poe-like nature, are available in complementary companion fonts, Raven Extra and Raven Evermore Extra. Ms. Goldsmith's other Bitstream releases include Hank, Liorah, Melanie, Missy and Ryan.