Engraving Fonts
Digital Type, founded in 1985, is solely devoted to the development of digital typefaces. Beyond the many letter type design contracts fulfilled, Digital Type has much experience in the creation of engraving fonts which is clearly demonstrated in this edition of 54 fonts, available in PostScript and TrueType for both Mac and PC. Engraving fonts of Digital Type are developed from original types of the URW library and are carefully adjusted to the needs of the engraver. This means, that they fulfill the highest typographic requirements and, on the other hand, guarantee shortest faultless computer and machine running times.
PostScript and TrueType have become standard in the desktop publishing. Digital Type makes this advantage also available for the milling and engraving industry. The engraver thus becomes independent of the producer and is able to considerably reduce his costs. As common typefaces become available, only the outer contour of the character will be engraved. The available software for filling is not faultless. Typefaces with hand edited engraving tracks offer the great advantage, that the inside of the font is removed, leaving no dropouts and require no computer time.
Single stroke fonts are perfectly simulated and even keep some of the contrast between vertical and horizontal lines. Besides this they give perfect screen fonts. Nevertheless they can be used in extreme small type sizes. The four and more line fonts give in stepless type sizes, engraved with the corresponding tools, an unobjectionable typographic result.This is also obtained by our excellent spacing, that we have optimized during many proofing tests. When using single and more line fonts inside the same lettering job, Digital Type engraving fonts are well balanced with each other.
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