Ascender Uni 5.0 Font Program
Ascender Uni
Ascender UniDuo
Description
The Ascender Unicode 5.0 font program enables companies to deliver products with extensive language coverage through the use of commercial quality Unicode compliant fonts from Ascender.
Ascender Uni fonts are available in two different font styles:
- Proportionally spaced sans serif
- Fixed-Width sans serif
By providing both a proportionally spaced and fixed-width version, customers can use the appropriate font that works best for their product requirements. For instance database programs may require fixed-width spacing for columned reports while a publishing application may require a proportional spaced version.
One of the benefits of the Ascender Unicode 5.0 program is that it offers flexible implementations that include providing a single “big font” or a series of language modules that provides support for specific geographic regions.
The Ascender Uni program provides an initial font or set of fonts that has full coverage for characters in The Unicode Standard, v2.1 and beyond (supporting most major code pages and character sets in modern use). At 39MB (smaller without bitmaps), it contains approximately 53,000 glyphs. The Latin and related glyphs are Sans Serif, with Gothic ideographs drawn in Japanese style, and complementary styles for other scripts. There are also versions of Ascender Uni that provide localized support for Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
For improved legibility at small sizes, embedded bitmaps can be included for sizes 11 through 23, with coverage of ideographs and Hangul Syllables. OpenType layout support is included for Arabic (initial, medial, final, isolate, and required ligature forms, as well as basic mark positioning), and vertical writing for CJK locales (consisting mostly of Latin, symbol, punctuation, and kana glyph variants).
Type Designer
Steve Matteson
Unicode Ranges
Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Spacing Modifier Letters, Combining Diacritical Marks, Greek and Coptic, Reserved Bit 8, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Reserved Bit 12, Arabic, Reserved Bit 14, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Reserved Bit 27, Hangul Jamo, Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, General Punctuation, Superscripts And Subscripts, Currency Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks For Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Control Pictures, Optical Character Recognition, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats, CJK Symbols And Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Reserved Bit 53, Enclosed CJK Letters And Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul Syllables, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, Combining Half Marks, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Halfwidth And Fullwidth Forms, Specials
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