Fonts for Mobile Devices

Fonts can make a difference in the User Interface (UI)
Ascender's type design and engineering experts understand the myriad of issues with respect to making fonts look good on small screens. With mobile devices the techical issues range from font formats (bitmap, TrueType, OpenType) to language support. The design issues range from creating new font designs to extending the branding fonts to the UI.

Ascender has created fonts for a wide range of mobile devices and has established itself as a trusted partner for many companies. For more information on our capabilities or to discuss your particular needs, please contact us.

Ascender is proud to offer fonts and innovative software for the following platforms:

Compact Asian Fonts for Mobile Devices
Ascender Compact Asian Fonts™ (ACAF) was designed for mobile devices to display Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts with a significantly reduced memory footprint. More information on ACAF

Font Renderers & Mobile OS Support
Ascender has developed fonts that run on numerous platforms including Linux, Symbian, Windows Mobile and propriety environments. Ascender can deliver fonts in practically any format desired.

The font rendering system deployed in the mobile device is a key component that determines how Ascender tunes the fonts for optimal display. FreeType is a popular open source font rendering system. Ascender also supports the TrueType rasterizer from Microsoft, and can provide high quality hinted fonts.

Contact the Ascender team to find out more about how they can help you solve your font problems.

Software for UI Personalization
The Ascender Personality Kit is a powerful, easy-to-use software program that lets you change the “personality” of your Windows Mobile phone in just a few simple steps.

Each personality is pre-defined with a matching ringtone, wallpaper background and color theme. The software makes it easy to quickly preview, select and install a new personality onto your phone.

The Starter Edition comes with 10 pre-made sets of personalities: Butterfly, Chess, Clouds, Galaxy, Halloween, Hot Air Balloons, Mt Rushmore, USA Flag, Sushi and Tennis. Additional personalities can be purchased in convenient add-on packs.

The software retails for $9.99 and is available for purchase and download at www.personalitykit.com. The site also features additionsl sets of ringtones & wallpapers that can be downloaded to your phone!

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Fonts for Mobile Devices