Agfa Monotype Adds Three Foundries and Over 300 New Products to Fonts.com; Bergsland Design, ShinnType and JY&A Font Foundries Now Available on Fonts.com

Business Wire, August 13, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WILMINGTON, Mass. & SALFORDS, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2003

Agfa Monotype Corp. has released the entire collections from Bergsland Design, ShinnType and JY&A Fonts, adding over 300 fonts and font packages to Fonts.com. The typefaces can be viewed from the "Font Packs" and "Libraries" banners on the front page of www.fonts.com.

"I'm delighted we can now offer these fonts through Fonts.com," said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Agfa Monotype. "Each font is well-drawn, carefully made, and a successful melding of the qualities that make a typeface distinctive and versatile."

As a writer and designer, David Bergsland began creating fonts for use in his own books. Bergsland's collection of typefaces includes the sizable Avenue(TM) family. Designed to be versatile for setting body copy, Avenue is available in several variations: serif, humanist sans serif, and old style. Bergsland's 18 typeface families are available for Macintosh(R) and Windows(R) platforms in PostScript(R) and TrueType(R) formats. Prices for individual Bergsland fonts begin at $32 with volumes of four or more fonts starting at $98.

Nick Shinn, a Toronto-based art director and type designer, founded ShinnType in 1999. Since then, ShinnType has released 21 families, including Beaufort(TM), a popular design that Shinn describes as "a kind of grotesque with small serifs and a no-nonsense, orthodox appearance." The Beaufort family also contains condensed and extended variations. ShinnType fonts are available in Macintosh PostScript, Windows PostScript and Windows TrueType formats. Prices for individual ShinnType fonts begin at $39 with volumes of two or more fonts starting at $59.

JY&A Fonts is part of the communications firm, Jack Yan & Associates, founded in 1987 by Yan, whose passion for hand lettering developed into type design. JY&A Fonts now features 29 typefaces, including the Integrity(TM) family. Integrity's condensed letterforms, high x-height and varying stroke thickness provide an unconventional, yet highly readable appearance. JY&A fonts are available for Macintosh and Windows platforms in PostScript and TrueType formats. Prices for single fonts begin at $19 with volumes of two or more fonts starting at $65.

About Fonts.com

As the Internet's most comprehensive and convenient place to preview, purchase and download fonts, Fonts.com offers single fonts, packages, family volumes and type libraries, including both the Monotype (R)and ITC(R) libraries, sources for such widely used designs as Arial(R) and ITC Officina(R). Visitors are greeted with clear navigation and multiple search options in addition to articles, tips, techniques and tutorials. Live customer care representatives are available to assist in identifying and selecting typefaces and to resolve technical font issues. Fonts.com also provides information about Agfa Monotype's custom font services, including customized fonts for brand identity projects.

About Agfa Monotype Corp.

Based in Wilmington, Mass. with regional offices in the U.K., Japan and China, Agfa Monotype specializes in fonts and font technologies for graphic professionals, software developers and manufacturers of printers and display devices. The company also provides printer drivers, imaging technologies and integration services for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers). Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary of Agfa Corp. based in Ridgefield Park, N.J. and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa is the U.S. subsidiary of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems primarily for the graphic imaging, healthcare, non-destructive testing, micrographic, and consumer desktop and photography markets. Headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium, Agfa has 40 national sales organizations globally, with worldwide sales of 4.683 billion euros in 2002. Additional information about Agfa Monotype and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.agfamonotype.com, www.fonts.com, and www.agfamonotype.co.uk.