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Style index for the Professional PostScript range |
Please note that these fonts are suitable only for Windows machines, not the Macintosh.
This section lets you choose between the main font styles in the Professional PostScript range. A full alphabetical list of fonts is also available. All fonts include a complete character set. These are all Type 1 fonts and require Adobe Type Manager (ATM) installed on your computer. (ATM is available from PC dealers.) All fonts are also available in TrueType format.
What's the difference between PostScript and TrueType
fonts?Which languages (other than English) can I use these fonts
for?What
are the minimum system requirements for using these fonts?What
license terms apply to Professional range fonts? You can also purchase the complete collection of fonts on CD direct from Electronic Font Foundry.
Prices: Each font in the Professional PostScript range costs $16 US (plus VAT in Europe), except for the Symbol fonts which are individually priced.
Top ten fonts
There are the most popular fonts with our customers. (We think they're good as well.) There's a wide range of different types and this page is the ideal starting point for selecting your first fonts from the EFF range.
Script fonts
This category includes all scripts from the 15th century to the modern days, from the old fashioned cursive writing to non-joining hand written letters. All these fonts have in common is their handwritten rather than drawn appearance.
Black Letter fonts
These fonts are the oldest types, based on the manuscripts predating printing with movable type. Today they are used as original display faces.
Display fonts
Display fonts developed as advertising types, and are intended for limited use at larger sizes, to catch readers' attention. Their readability is not their prime function, and should not be used for the longer passages of text
Monospaced fonts
Looks like output from a traditional typewriter or dot matrix printer. Monospaced fonts have all the letters and symbols with the same width and are intended for tables or wherever it is desired that columns with the same number of letters occupy the same space.
Serif fonts (divided into categories)
One of the two main types of font. Characters have a small embellishment (called serifs) at the ends. Commonly used for large blocks of text because the serifs make it easy for the eye for follow the line.
Slab serif fontsProduced first in the early 19th century, display characteristic heavy serifs, vertical stress and little or no stroke contrast. These features give Slab Serif faces a monotone look attributed to the typewriter compositions. Old Style serif fonts Based on the earliest Roman types, originated in the 15th century in Venice
and still are the most popular body text fonts. Transitional serif fonts Formed in the late 17th century as an "improved style". Later the
style was found to be "transitional" (between Old Style and Modern.)
Modern serif fonts First designed at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, as a radicalized
Transitional style. |
Sans serif fonts
The other main type of font. "Without serif" fonts appeared first in the early 19th century. The style was gaining popularity throughout the 19th century, to flourish in the early 20th century, when it was claimed to be the type of the future.
Educational fonts
These are fonts with simple outlines suitable for use in schools and education generally. In particular they all have the rounded 'a' requested by schools for preparing material for early-years pupils. (For early-years use, Primary Cheynes is especially useful as it has a "written" look.)
Symbol fonts
Fonts containing non-alphabetic characters such as mathematical symbols, or special alphabets such as OCR, MICR and Braille.
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