What is Typonine?

Typonine is a small type foundry and type&graphic design studio based in Croatia

and The Netherlands.

It is run by type&graphic designer Nikola Djurek. He was born in Croatia, studied in Croatia, Italy and finally in The Netherlands at postgraduate master course Type and Media at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Nikola teaches at University of Zagreb, School of Design in Zagreb and Academy of Art in Split. He is Croatian country delegate for ATypI (Association Typographique International), the organisation of the international type community. He founded Typonine in 2005.

1. • phone: Croatia +385 91 569 3865
   Netherlands +316 15 512 354
   

2. • address: Nikola Djurek |typonine|
   Varazdinska 3, 49210 Zabok
   Croatia
   

If You need a custom font or customised version one of our fonts, we can make it for You. Just e-mail us, write a short explanation about the font that You need, and we will get back to You for further arrangements.

This END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.pdf constitutes a binding legal agreement between You and Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek).

Read it carefully before completing the installation process and using the font software. This agreement contains disclaimers of warranties and liability. By downloading, installing and/or using the typonine font software, You confirm that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement, and that You have the authority to bind the person or entity specified on your invoice to the terms of this agreement.    

This License is for the benefit of a single user only. Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) gives you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Typonine font so ware specified on your invoice on one to five (1-5) computers and one (1) output device such as printer, an imagesetter or a film recorder on one physical location. If the font is placed on a font server, each device that accesses the server counts as one device. If your configuration exceeds this format, you are required to purchase additional licenses.

You agree to treat the software as confidential information and avoid unauthorized distribution of the Font Software.

You may not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, alter or otherwise copy the Typonine Font Software. You are permitted to make a copy for personal archival purposes only. The Typonine Font Software or documentation may not be sublicensed, sold, leased, rented, lent, or further distribute to another person or entity. You agree that you will not distribute any part of the so ware through any online service.

The Font Software is the exclusive property of Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek), it is protected by the Croatian Copyright Law, by the copyright and design laws of other nations, and by the international treaties.

The user of this Typonine font so ware agrees to credit Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) as the trademark and copyright owner of the Typonine fonts and list the font names, wherever and whenever design, production, or any other credits are shown, e.g. ‘Typedesign: “Fontname” from Typonine’.

You agree that any derivative Font works which are based upon the design of the Fonts or otherwise incorporate any of the Typonine Font Software, including software, EPS files, illustrations or other electronic works, are considered derivative works and use of any derivative work is the Property of Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) and shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Embedding of the Typonine Font Software in PDF documents is allowed for the sole purpose of providing documents to printers or other outside suppliers for reproduction and provided that the extraction of the Fonts is prohibited. Also embedding of the Typonine Font Software in Flash documents is allowed for the sole purpose of creating vector graphics for inclusion on web pages and provided that the extraction of the Fonts is prohibited. To publish documents with embedded fonts (e.g. on Web or CD Rom) you need a special license agreement, depending on the technology used and the scale of publishing.

If you are an advertising agency, acting on behalf of an advertising agency or otherwise acting in a similar capacity or for the benefit of a third party, the purchase of a license for your client is required and depending upon the scope of the intended use, a further license upgrade and/or the purchase of a special license may also be required.

Typonine Font Software may be returned or exchanged only if defective and will be replaced only when accompanied by a valid sales receipt and notified within 30 days of purchase.

Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) makes no warranties, express or implied as to merchantabiity, fitness for a particular purpose, or otherwise. Without limiting the aforementioned, Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) shall in no event be liable for any direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages, including damages from loss of business profits, business interruption, and loss of business information, or computer failure, damage or malfunction arising out of the use or inability to use the product.

Any violation of the terms of this Agreement shall cause this license to be terminated. In the event of termination, and without limiting any other remedies which may be available against you, you must immediately return the font so ware to Typonine (legally represented by Nikola Djurek) and certify that no copies remain in your possession or control.

What is PostScript?

Adobe PostScript 3™ is the worldwide printing and imaging standard. The PostScript programming language was originally developed by Adobe Systems to communicate complex graphic printing instructions to digital printers. It is now built into many laser printers for high-quality rendering of both raster and vector graphics.

An important feature of the PostScript language is that it is device independent. This means that it produces good-looking images regardless of the resolution or color rendering method of the output device, and it takes full advantage of the capabilities built into the device. The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a more structured, compact subset of the PostScript language. Almost anything that can be done in PostScript can be done in PDF.

Type 1 fonts are a specialized form of PostScript program and are the original file format used for type display on all PostScript printers. The PostScript language was later extended to provide support for the later TrueType and OpenType font standards. Any new Adobe PostScript language device made today supports all three font standards.

What is Type 1?

Adobe PostScript Type 1 is a worldwide standard for digital type fonts (International Standards Organization outline font standard, ISO 9541). It was first developed by Adobe Systems for use in PostScript printers. Although Adobe is a leader in the design and manufacturing of Type 1 software and maintains the standards for Type 1, hundreds of companies around the world have designed and released more than 30,000 fonts in the Type 1 format.

The Type 1 font format is recognized on every computer platform, from microcomputers to mainframes. It prints on virtually every printer, either directly through built-in PostScript language interpreting, or through add-on utilities, such as Adobe Type Manager (ATM). ATM technology is integrated into Microsoft Windows 2000 and Mac OSX operating system. For more than a decade, Type 1 has been the preferred format for the graphic arts and publishing industries.

What is OpenType?

OpenType is a new standard for digital type fonts, developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. OpenType supersedes Microsoft's TrueType Open extensions to the TrueType format. OpenType fonts can contain either PostScript or TrueType outlines in a common wrapper. An OpenType font is a single file, which can be used on both Macintosh and Windows platforms without conversion. OpenType fonts have many advantages over previous font formats because they contain more glyphs, support more languages (OpenType uses the Unicode standard for character encoding,) and support rich typographic features such as small caps, old style figures, and ligatures — all in a single font.

Beginning with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop 6.0, applications have begun to support OpenType layout features. OpenType layout allows you to access features such as old style figures or true small caps by simply applying formatting to text. In most applications that do not actively support such features, OpenType fonts work just like other fonts, although the OpenType layout features are not accessible.

OpenType with PostScript outlines is supported by the latest versions of Adobe Type Manager, and is natively supported in Windows 2000. Apple has also announced its intent to support OpenType, and supplies Japanese system fonts for Mac OS X in OpenType form with PostScript outlines. The OpenType™ format is a superset of the existing TrueType and Adobe PostScript Type 1 font formats. It provides improved cross-platform document portability, rich linguistic support, powerful typographic capabilities, and simplified font management requirements.

OpenType, as jointly defined by Microsoft and Adobe Systems, is technically an extension of Microsoft's TrueType Open format, which can contain either PostScript font outlines (.otf) or TrueType font outlines (.ttf). OpenType .otf fonts are recognized and rendered on-screen by a PostScript rasterizer, such as Adobe Type Manager (ATM), which is either installed as an add-on system software component, or built into some operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Macintosh OS X. OpenType fonts peacefully co-exist with current font formats and can be used in the same document alongside Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

What are the advantages of OpenType?

OpenType offers several compelling advantages:

1. ‣A single, cross-platform font file that can be used on both Macintosh and Windows              platforms
   

2. ‣An expanded character set based on the international Unicode encoding standard for rich linguistic support
   

3. ‣Advanced typographic capabilities related to glyph positioning and glyph substitution that allow for the inclusion of numerous alternate glyphs — such as old-style figures, small capitals and swashes — in one font file
   

4. ‣A compact font outline data structure for smaller font file sizes
   

5. ‣OpenType is natively supported in 2000/XP and the Macintosh OSX operating system
   

6. ‣OpenType advanced typographic features are supported in Adobe InDesign CS all versions and Adobe Photoshop CS all versions
   

What compression technologies are incorporated in OpenType?

All OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (.otf) use Compact Font Format (CFF, or Type 2) for considerable size reduction. Although CFF is not strictly compression, since the outlines do not have to be decompressed to be rendered, the result is still more compact than Type 1. Adobe’s OpenType fonts also use subroutinization for additional size reduction. OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines (.ttf) have the option of using compression technology licensed by Microsoft.

Why are there two kinds of OpenType fonts?

The OpenType format is the result of merging two existing formats — Type 1 and TrueType fonts — so it is important to retain the advantages of both.

Can I still use my Type 1 or TrueType fonts if I use OpenType?

You can continue working as you always have. OpenType works seamlessly alongside both TrueType and Type 1 fonts. OpenType fonts simply provide more power, since they offer extended language support and advanced typographic features on platforms and applications that support extended OpenType capabilities.

What does OpenType support mean? If I’m using an operating system that supports OpenType, can I use OpenType features in all my applications?

OpenType support consists of three types: basic OpenType support (the fonts work like any other fonts); Unicode support (access to extended language character sets); and OpenType layout support (support for advanced typographic features). Some operating systems (or operating system extensions) can provide support for one or more of these, but support for Unicode and layout features requires that an application be programmed to provide this functionality. Adobe InDesign (all versions) and Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and later support OpenType advanced typographic features.