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EFF Acorn Type Library contains over 1,300 fonts which support over 60 languages.
All our typefaces have been designed especially for Acorn and are fully hand hinted, which guarantees that they will reproduce better than any others at all sizes on all kinds of media. They are also PostScript compatible.
We pride ourselves in providing only highest quality fonts and hope to bring to the Acorn scene the best of the world‘s typography. We are also happy to provide free advice on font related matters to all Acorn users. We are dedicated to the Risc OS platform us both developers and users and hope to be able to support the platform despite last year developments.
All the fonts, single weights or full families, are available individually on floppy discs.
A collection of 800 Latin fonts for Acorn and Windows is available on EFF2 Professional Typography CD.
Font catalogue
Samples of all our fonts are available. You can either:
- Load Lists of fonts ™ where you can find various lists of fonts depending on their style or alphabet
- View list of Languages - if you are looking for fonts for a particular language.
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The following three font formats are available:
- Risc OS 2 – used by old Archimedes machines. Risc OS 2 fonts do not have kerning (information about letter spacing) and take up more space, so if your computer still runs Risc OS 2 you should think of upgrading it to Risc OS 3 or later.
- Risc OS 3 – nowadays a standard format used by Risc machines running Risc OS 3, 4, 5 or 6. It supports kerning and the font files are more compact.
- Publisher – consists of two fonts together: Risc OS 3 and PostScriptTM Type 1. Risc OS font is used for displaying on screen and PostScript font is used on PostScript printers and imagesetters. The PostScript font file is downloaded directly to the printer by the Acorn PostcSript Printer Driver, which greatly improves the quality of the printed text. Recommended format for professional users.
It is ideal for making pdf files.
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If you wish to type in English only, you do not need to specify the alphabet – you will be supplied with the standard Latin 1 character set.
If you wish to type in a foreign language please check which Alphabet it belongs to from List of languages page, you may also need a Keyboard Driver.
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Keyboard drivers
Keyboard Driver is an application that allows an easy access to foreign letters from your English keyboard. Some languages may require just few additional letters not available on the keyboard, for instance German language would require just Ä, Ë, Ö, Ü and ß whereas Russian or Bengali languages would require complete remapping of the keyboard since they do not use any of the English letters.
You can use a foreign font without a keyboard driver by entering the characters‘ ASCII codes or using an application like !Chars, but the keyboard driver will make it much easier.
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All the fonts can be obtained individually (by weight). The prices of fonts vary depending on type of font and alphabet they belong to.
All the prices are on the pages displaying the font samples.
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Font CD:
Font collections:
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