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URW Type Foundry was sold to Monotype Imaging in May 2020. [3] At the time of the sale, URW held rights to thousands of original fonts, including increasingly non-Latin fonts. Of particular importance were its established relationships with Chinese and Japanese companies, for which URW developed a special software for editing Chinese characters.
Impact is a sans-serif typeface in the industrial or grotesque style designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 and released by the Stephenson Blake foundry of Sheffield. [1] It is well known for having been included in the core fonts for the Web package and distributed with Microsoft Windows since Windows 98 .
The fonts implement almost the whole of the Multilingual European Subset 1 of Unicode. Also provided are keyboard handlers for Windows and the Mac, making input easy. They are based on fonts designed by URW++ Design and Development Incorporated, and offer lookalikes for Courier, Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and New Century Schoolbook. [4]
The "Included from" column indicates the first edition of Windows in which the font was ... Impact [6] Display: ... Light Italic, SemiLight, SemiLight Italic, Regular ...
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URW++ Nimbus Roman No. 9 L - commercial version; Ghostscript Git - URW fonts (Type 1, OTF and TTF fonts) Nimbus Roman No. 9 L-Regular - font metrics; Ghostscript changelog (includes changes in Nimbus fonts) Fonts and font facilities supplied with Ghostscript; Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows (2007)
Nimbus Sans L is a version of Nimbus Sans using Adobe font sources. It was designed in 1987. The family includes 17 fonts in 5 weights and 2 widths, with Nimbus Sans L Extra Black only available in condensed roman format.
A version of Ikarus tailored for signmaking applications was released by URW as "Signus". The advent of desktop publishing in the 1980s using Apple Macintosh computers coupled with laser printers led to a shift away from a small number of specialized print bureaux acquiring relatively expensive fonts to a growing market for cheap mass-produced ...