fontsNon-Latin The development and expansion of global markets and new technologies have brought new challenges and demands for font manufacturers. New products by Western companies are pushing into the Near Eastern and Asian markets. In order to be successful, such products must be equipped with fonts which support Asian writing systems, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and many more. URW++, being the inventor of digital outline fonts and a pioneer in font technology, has developed and licensed its IKARUS software for more than 30 years for and to Asian customers, enhancing the system step by step to meet the requirements of non-Latin font design and digitization, above all for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Kanji and Hangul. During that time we have learned a lot about these scripts and also produced our own range of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts together with our Asian cooperation and joint venture partners. As a font company, URW++ has become a Global Player as well, i.e. we not only provide OpenType fonts for individual code pages and almost all languages worldwide, but we additionally supply fonts with global Unicode character set in order to meet the ever-growing demand for such global fonts.
Cyrillic The Cyrillic script containing 32 basic characters is used in Russia and various countries of the former Soviet Union as well as some other countries and regions in Europe.     Greek Greek (24 basic characters) is very similar to Latin. This is no surprise since Latin stems from Greek. One differentiates between monotonic and polytonic (ancient or classical Byzantine).                 Vietnamese Vietnamese has been written in Latin for about 60 years. Before, it was written in Chinese. This proves that monothetic languages with tonemes (6 for Thai) can very well be written in Latin.     Hebrew Hebrew (22 basic characters) is modern Israel’s official script. The older Phoenician version of the Hebrew script is not used any more.                 Arabic Arabic (29 basic characters) was developed in the 7th century AD und stems directly from Aramaic, which in turn derived from Phoenician.     Devanagari Hindi, India’s official language, is written in Devanagari. In addition, there are many more scripts and languages which are equally complex in their design and setting rules.                 Thai Thai (64 basic characters) belongs to the family of Indic scripts which were developed from the early Brahmi script. It is written from left to right.     Korean Korean is written in Hangul syllables. Each of the 24 syllables consists of three parts (consonant, vowel, consonant). A complete Hangul font embraces more than 11000 glyphs (Unicode standard).                 Japanese Japanese Kanji were introduced in the 5th/6th century when Japan first came into contact with the Han dynasty in China. Kanji is a Japanese word and translates as: Chinese character.     Chinese IChinese is the only script that does not have Semitic roots. It developed completely independently and is unique in its structure.                 Global Fonts Our Global Fonts meet the highest quality criteria: Consisting of a sans and a serif, each with several weights, they contain a complete multilingual glyph set harmonized in design for all scripts.
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