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Vendor Information

Type/Font Vendors

The following list is based on information from Masumi Abe, Norm Walsh and many others. I (Don Hosek) have been calling vendors and attempting to make sure information is up to date. I have removed a number of vendors who do not sell fonts. Fonts bundled with applications (e.g., the bitmap fonts which are part of Quicken) are not considered enough to merit inclusion in the list. Also, a number of the vendors on the list actually were selling various printing software but no fonts per se and were likewise removed. Finally, some companies seem to have disappeared, most likely gone out of business. I've indicated the verification date of any information which appears on the list. I would appreciate aid in contacting those companies which are listed as unverified (particularly companies outside the US). Please send updates and corrections to me at dhosek@pitzer.edu

Achtung Entertainment           TrueType (shareware) for Macs, 300+ 
508 N. College Ave. #215        fonts. HyperCard demo disk $3.00 
Bloomington, IN 47404           (refundable/order)
no phone number

ADH Software                    (Mac)
P.O. Box 67129
Los Angeles, CA 90067

Adobe Systems Incorporated      : Type 1 (Mac, PC)
1585 Charleston Rd.             : Originals, designs licensed from
P.O. Box 7900                   : Linotype, Monotype, Berthold, and
Mountain View, CA 94039-7900    : others
(415) 961-4400
(800) 344-8335
Verified: 16 Feb 1994

Agfa Division, Miles Inc.       : Type 1 Truetype, (PC, Mac), 
90 Industrial Way               : Intellifont (PC), Compugraphic
Wilmington, MA 01887            : typesetter fonts. Originals,
(800) 424-TYPE                  : fonts licensed from Adobe.
(508) 657-0232
FAX: (508) 657-8568
Verified: 17 Feb 1994

Allotype Typographics           : Downloadable Fonts (Mac)
1600 Packard Rd. Suite #5         Kadmos (Greek)
Ann Arbor, MI 48104               Czasy & Szwajcarskie
(313) 663-1989                    Demotiki

Alphabets, Inc.                 : Type 1, TrueType (PC, Mac)
P.O. Box 5448                   : New and licensed designs
Evanston, IL 60204-5448
(800) 326-8973
(708) 328-2733
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

Alphatype Corp.
220 Campus Dr., Suite 103
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
(708) 259-6800

Altsys Corporation,         : FONTastic Fonts, 
269 West Renner Road,       : Fontographer Fonts (Mac)
Richardson,
Texas 75080.
(214) 680-2060.

Artworx Software Co.            (Mac)
1844 Penfield Rd.                 Hebrew Typefaces
Penfield, NY 14526
(716) 385-6120
(800) 828-6573

Architext, Inc.                 (HP/IBM)
121 Interpark Blvd. Suite 1101
San Antonio, TX 78216
(512) 490-2240

Asiagraphics Technology Ltd.    (Mac)
9A GreatMany Centre               Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai
109 Queen's Road East
Wanchai, Hong Kong
(5) 8655-225
Fax: (5) 8655-250
Modem: (5) 865-4816

Autologic, Inc.                 (Mac)
1050 Rancho Conejo Blvd.
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(805) 498-9611

Azalea Software, Inc.
PO Box 16745
Seattle WA  98116-0745  USA
800 48-ASOFT  206 932.4030  206 937.5919 FAX
azalea@igc.org

Bear Rock Technologies,
4140 Mother Lode,
Shingle Springs,
California 95682-8038.
(916) 672-0244

Berthold of North America
7711 N. Merrimac Avenue
Niles, IL 60648
(708) 965-8800

Bitstream, Inc.
Athenaeum House
215 First St.
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 497-6222
(800) 237-3335

A representative of Bitstream sent the following correction to me.

Bitstream offers:

**1100 PostScript Type 1 fonts for the Mac & PC. (These can be ordered direct from Bitstream or thru several resellers.) ** Bitstream Type Treasury -- the Bitstream Type Library for the Mac (Type 1 format) on CD ROM.

** Bitstream Type Essentials--a series of 4 Typeface Packages for PC & Mac that were selected to work well for different jobs (Letters, Memos & Faxes; Newsletters, Brochures & Announcements; Spreadsheets, Graphs & Presentations; Headlines).

**Bitstream Typeface Packages for the PC -- 52 packages (most with 4 faces each) that include a total of over 200 faces, with mutiple font formats in each package (Bitstream Speedo, Type 1, Bitstream Fontware)

** Bitstream TrueType Font Packs 1 & 2 for Microsoft Windows ** Bitstream PostScript Font Packs 1 & 2 for the PC ** Bitstream FaceLift for Windows ** Bitstream FaceLift for WordPerfect - both are font scaling/font management utilities.

** Bitstream MakeUp for Windows - a type manipulation/ special effects program.

** Bitstream Li'l Bits -- a new product line of novelty fonts in TrueType format for Windows 3.1. The first release began shipping last week and includes The Star Trek Font Pack, The Flintstones Font Pack and The Winter Holiday Font Pack.

We offer OEM customers an extensive range of non-latin type (as you have noted in the current listing), but these faces are not currently available to individual end-users.

We also offer font-scaling and rasterizing technology to OEM customers.

Blaha Software/Janus Associates : Big Foot (Mac) (HP/IBM)
991 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 354-1999

Blue Sky Research               : Type 1 (Mac)
534 SW Third Avenue, #816       : Computer Modern in PostScript
Portland, OR  97204
(800) 622-8398

Carter & Cone

Casady & Greene, Inc.           : Fluent Fonts, Fluent Laser Fonts (Mac)
26080 Carmel Rancho Blvd. #202    Russian/Ukranian/Bulgarian/Serbian
P.O. Box 223779                   Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Kana, Polish
Carmel, CA 93922                  Glasnost
(408) 484-9228
(800) 331-4321 -------------no longer valid
(800) 851-1986 (California)-no longer valid

Caseys' Page Mill               (Mac)
6528 S. Oneida Court
Englewood, CO 80111
(303) 220-1463

Castle Systems                  : (Truetype, Type1) (Mac, IBM)
1306 Lincoln Avenue             : Revivals of art deco faces,
San Ragael, CA 94901-2165       : calligraphy, variations of 
(415) 459-6495                  : existing designs

Century Software (MacTography)  font developer for MacTographyc
702 Twinbrook Parkway           : LaserFonts (Mac)
Rockville, MD 20851
(301) 424-1357

Callifonts
P.O. Box 224891
Dallas, TX 75222
(214) 504-8808

Coda Music Software
1401 E. 79th St.
Mineapolis, MN 55425-1126
(612) 854-1288
(800) 843-1337

Compugraphic Corporation        (Mac) (HP/IBM)
Type Division
90 Industrial Way
Wilmington, MA 01887
(800) 622-8973 (U.S.)
(800) 533-9795 (Canada)

Computer EdiType Systems        (HP/IBM)
509 Cathedral Parkway, Ste. 10A
New York, NY 10025
(212) 222-8148

Computer Peripherals, Inc.      : JetWare (HP/IBM)
2635  Lavery Ct. #5
Newbury Park, CA 91320
(805) 499-5751

Computer Prod. Unlimited        (Mac)
78 Bridge St.
Newburgh, NY 12550
(914) 565-6262

Coniglio Communications
124 Woodside Green #2B
Stamford, CT 06905-4918
(203) 975-8111
coniglio@aol.com; citycenter@aol.com

Conographic Corp.               (Mac) (HP/IBM)
17841 Fitch
Irvine, CA 92714
(714) 474-1188

Corel Systems Corp.             (HP/IBM)
1600 Carling Ave.
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA KIZ 7M4
(613) 728-8200

Data Transforms                 (HP/IBM)
616 Washington St.
Denver, CO 80203
(303) 832-1501

Devonian International software Co.     (Mac)
P.O. Box 2351                             Cyrillic
Montclair, CA 91763
(714) 621-0973

Digi-Fonts                      (HP/IBM)
528 Commons Drive                Greek, Cyrillic
Golden, Colorado 80401
(303) 526-9435
Fax: (303) 526-9501

Digital Type Systems (DTS)      (HP/IBM)
38 Profile Circle
Nashua, NH 03063
(603) 880-7541

Dubl-Click Software, Inc.       : World Class Fonts (Mac)
9316 Deering Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
(818) 700-9525

Ecological Linguistics          (Mac)
P.O. Box 15156                  Cyrillic, Greek
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-5862

The Electric Typographer        : Type 1 and TrueType (Mac & PC)
2216 Cliff Dr.                  : Original designs
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
(805) 966-7563
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

EmDash                          : EmDash Fonts (Mac)
P.O. Box 8256
Northfield, IL 60093
(312) 441-6699

The Font Company
12629 N. Tatum Boulevard
Suite 210
Phoenix, AZ  85032
(602) 996-6606

The Font Factory                (HP/IBM)
2400 Central Parkway
Ste. J-2
Houston, TX 77092

FontCenter                      (HP/IBM)
509 Marin St., #121
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(805) 373-1919

Font FunHouse CD-ROM            (PC/Mac)
Wayzata
PO Box 807
Grand Rapids, Minnesota 55744
(800) 735-7321

FontHaus North America          (United States)
1375 King's Hwy East
Fairfield, CT 06430
(800) 942-9110 or (203) 367-1993
(203) 367-1860 Fax

FontHaus UK (Faces Ltd.) 44-127-638-888 349 Yorktown Road College Town, Camberley Surrey GU15 4PX UK

FontHaus Australia (Lasermaster Aus. Pty. Ltd.) 61-3-747-9301 #31 Rosina Drive Melton, Victoria 3337 Australia

FontHaus France (Signum Art) 33-1-48-89-6046 Fax: 33-1-48-89-6045 94 avenue Victor Hugo 94100 Saint Maur des Fosses France

FontHaus Germany (Elsner & Flake) 49-40-39-88-3988 Friedensallee 44 22765 Hamburg Germany

FontHaus Sweden (FontBolaget) 46-8-16-81-00 Tulegatan 15 A 113 53 Stockholm Sweden

FontHaus is a manufacturer of typefaces and a licensed reseller for Adobe, Monotype, Bitstream, Elsner+Flake, Giampa Textware, Treacyfaces, Panache Graphics, and others around the world.

FontHaus discounts most Adobe fonts up to 40% off list price, and have CD-ROM discs available so you can buy individual fonts instead of entire families. All their fonts are available in Macintosh Type 1; most are also available in PC format; and a growing number are in TrueType format. In addition, some type manufacturers support other platforms through thier CD-ROM font libraries (i.e. Monotype for Mac, PC, or NeXT). Contact them regarding availability for the fonts and formats you want.

FontHaus ships internationally and also has several agents overseas, although these agents may not have everything available as the main office here in the US.

Rhyscon Systems (Canada) PO Box 245 Clarkson PO Mississauga Ontario L51 3Y1 416 278 2600 416 278 3298 Fax

TypoGabor (France) 5, rue de 8 Mai 1945 92586 Clichy (Paris) 33 1 4739 6600 33 1 4739 0638 Fax

Elsner+Flake Fontinform GmbH (German) Friedensallee 44 D-22765 Hamburg 49 40 3988 3988

Signus Limited (Britain) South Bank TechnoPark 90 London Road London SE1 6LN 71 922 8805 71 261 0411 Fax

Font Bolajet (Sweden, Finland, Norway) Kungstengaten 18 113 57 Stockholm 46.8.16.81.00

Font World                      (Mac)
2021 Scottsville Rd.            Cyrillic, Hebrew
Rochester, NY 14623-2021
(716) 235-6861

Genny Software R&D              (Mac)
P.O. Box 5909
Beaumont, TX 77706
(409) 860-5817

Gradco Systems Inc.
7 Morgan
Irvine, CA 92718
(714) 770-1223

Handcraftedfonts Co.
Box 14013
Philadelphia, PA 19122-0013
Tel/Fax: 215-634-0634

Our fonts are licensed to Monotype Typography, ITC DesignPalette, International TypeFounders, Precision Type and Phil's Fonts.

Hewlett-Packard                 (HP/IBM)
P.O. Box 15
Boise, ID 83707
(208) 323-6000

ICOM Simulations, Inc.
648 S. Wheeling Rd.
Wheeling, IL 60090
(312) 520-4440
(880) 877-4266

Image Club Graphics, Inc.       : (Mac & PC)
729-24th Ave. SE
Calgary, AB
T2G 5K8
Canada
(800) 661-9410
(403) 262-8008 (Canada)

Image Processing Systems        :Turbofonts (HP/IBM)
6409 Appalachian Way, Box 5016
Madison, WI 53705
(608) 233-5033

Invincible Software             (Mac)
9534 Burwick
San Antonio, TX 78230
(512) 344-4228

Kabbalah Software
8 Price Drive
Edison, NJ 08817
(908) 572-0891
(908) 572-0869 Fax

Hebrew fonts for PC and Mac. While I am part owner, so I am biased, we have been reviewed in the October 27 1992 issue of PC Mag as having high-quality fonts.

Keller Software                 (HP/IBM)
1825 Westcliff Dr.
Newport Beach, CA 92600
(714) 854-8211

Kensington Microware Ltd.       (Mac)
251 Park Ave. S
New York, NY 10010
(212) 475-5200

Kingsley/ATF Type Corp.         (Mac)
200 Elmora Ave.
Elizabeth, NJ 07202
(201) 353-1000
(800) 289-TYPE

Laser Technologies International        : Lenord Storch Soft Fonts
15403 East Alondra Blvd.                        (HP/IBM)
La Mirada, CA 90638
(714) 739-2478

LaserMaster Corp.               : LM Fonts (HP/IBM)
7156 Shady Oak Rd.
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
(612) 944-9330
(800) LMC-PLOT
Fax: (612) 944-0522

LeBaugh Software Corp           : LeFont (HP/IBM)
2720 Greene Ave.
Onaha, NE 68147
(800) 532-2844

Letraset USA                    : LetraFont (Mac)
40 Eissenhower Dr.
Paramus, NJ 07653
(201) 845-6100
(800) 634-3463

Linguists' Software, Inc.       (Bitmap, Type 1, Truetype) (Mac, IBM)
P.O.Box 580                     Fonts for numerous alphabets. Not all
Edmonds, WA 98020-0580          fonts available in all languages. 
(206) 775-1130                  They support ~50 languages.
Fax: (206) 771-5911             
Verified: 16 Feb 1994

Linotype Company                (Mac)
425 Oser Ave.
Hauppauge, NY 11788
(800) 842-9721 (US)
(516) 434-2706 (FAX)

MacTography
326-D North Stonestreet Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 424-3942

Megatherium Enterprises         : Mac The Linguist 2 (Mac)
P.O. Box 7000-417
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
(310) 545-5913

Metro Software, Inc.            (HP/IBM)
2509 N. Cambell Ave., Ste. 214
Tucson, AZ 85719
(602) 299-7313

Microcosm
819 Devon Court
San Diego, CA 92109
619-488-4462
619-488-3087 fax
email: Tom Wright <wright@siggraph.org>

Provides fonts for resale to (mostly Unix & MS-DOS) software companies & hardware comapnies in its own portable file format together with portable C font rendering code. Pricing plans include royalty-free option & end-user site licenses. Standard Type-1 & TrueType formats also supplied. Font files from your artwork available too.

Modern Graphics                 :Organic Fonts (Mac)
P.O. Box 21366
Indianapolis, IL 46221
(317) 253-4316

Monotype Typography Inc.
Suite 504-53 West Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 855-1444
(800) MONOTYPE

Network Technology Corp.        : LaserTEX Font Library (HP/IBM)
6825 Lamp Post Lane
Alexandria, VA 22306
(703) 765-4506

Nippon Information Science Ltd. (NIS)   (Mac)
Sumire Bldg. 4F
5-4-4 Koishikawa
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112
Japan
(03) 945-5955

Olduvai Corporation             : Art Fonts (Mac)
7520 Red Road, Suite A
South Miami, FL 33143
(305) 665-4665
(800) 822-0772 (FL)

Page Studio Graphics            : PIXymbols (Mac)
3175 N. Price Rd. #1050
Chandler, AZ 85224
(602) 839-2763

Paperback Software              : KeyCap Fonts
2830 9th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
(415) 644-2116

PenUltimate Fonts               : Vernacular type for Mac and PC
14101 Walters Rd. #805          : Custom font design
Houston, TX 77014
Houston, TX 77014
E-Mail: PenUltimte@aol.com        Send $2 for catalog

Prosoft                         (HP/IBM)
7248 Bellair Ave., P.O. Box 560
North Hollywood, CA 91605
(818) 764 3131

Qume Corp.                      (HP/IBM)
2350 Qume Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131
(800) 223-2479

Ragnarok                        Font Line: Scriptorium Font Library
POB 140333                      120+ original calligraphic, display 
Austin, TX  78714               and art font designs.  SASE for catalog.  
(512) 472-6535                  $15 for 12 font sampler disk.  Specify 
                                Macintosh or PC preference when ordering. 

R.M.C.                          : PrintR fonts (HP/IBM)
12046 Willowood Dr.
Woodbridge, VA 22192
(703) 494-2633

Richard Beatty Designs          : Type 1 and TrueType (PC, Mac)
2312 Laurel Park Highway        : 45 fonts decorative elements
Hendersonville, NC 28739        : 270 alphabets, 50 original
(704) 696-8316                  : rest translated from lead and
Verified: 9 Feb 1994            : phototype. Goudy a specialty

S. Anthony Studios              : Fonts Vol. 1
889 DeHaro Street
San Francisco, CA  94107

Scholar's Press                 : (Mac)
P.O. Box 15399                  : 2 Greek fonts
Atlanta, GA 30333-0399
(404) 727-2320
FAX: (404) 727-2348
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

Scriptorium Font Library
(See Ragnarok)

SoftCraft, Inc.                  
16 North Carrol St., Suite 220
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 257-3300
FAX: (608) 257-6733
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

Software Complement             : (TrueType, Type 1) (Mac, IBM, Next)
8 Penn Ave.                     : Designer of fonts for Cassidy & Greene
Metamoras, PA 18336             : Custom logos and signatures.
(717) 491-2492
FAX: (717) 491-2443
Applelink: SOFTCOMP
CompuServe: 70244,3214
Verified: 16 Feb 1994

Straightforward                 : ZFont (HP/IBM)
15000 Halldale Ave.
Gardena, CA 90249
(310) 324-8827

SWFTE International             (HP/IBM)
Box 5773
Wilmington, DE 19808
(800) 237-9383

SystemSoft America, Inc.         : Kanji
P.O. Box 4260
Vero Beach, FL 32964 

Typographics Ltd.               : Typo
46, Hehalutz St.
Jerusalem 96222
Israel

U-Design, Inc.                  : TrueType, Type1 (Mac & PC)
270 Farmington Avenue           : Originals, licensed designs clones
Hartford, CT 06105
(203) 278-3648
BBS: (203) 525-5117
FAX: (203) 278-3003
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

The Underground Phont Archive   (TrueType,Shareware)
395 Kaymar Dr.
Amherst, NY 14228
USA.

Varityper, Inc.                 : (Mac)
11 Mt. Pleasant Ave.
East Hanover, NJ 07936
(800) 631-8134 (US except NJ)
(201) 887-8000 ext. 999 (NJ)

VS Software                     : HP Bitmaps (PC)
P.O. Box 6158                   : CG, ITC and original fonts
Little Rock, AR 72216
(501) 376-2083
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

Weaver Graphics                 : HP Bitmaps (PC only), 
5165 S. Hwy A1A                 : Adobe Type 1, Truetype (PC and Mac)
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951       : Mostly clone fonts, some originals
(407) 728-4000
Fax: (407) 728-5978
Verified: 9 Feb 1994

Wu Corp.                        : FeiMa (Mac) Chinese wordprocessor
46 West Avon Rd.
Avon, CT 06001
(203) 673-4796

Y&Y, Inc.                       : Type 1 format, Mac, PC, Unix
45 Walden Street                : Computer Modern, Lucida Bright
Concord, MA 01742               : AMS, LaTeX/SliTeX, MathTime
(800) 742-4059                  : Lucida Sans Typewriter etc
(508) 371-3286
Fax: (508) 371-2004
71172.524@compuserve.com

ZSoft Corp.                     : Soft Type
450 Franklin Rd. Suite 100
Marietta, GA 30067
(404) 428-0008
Fax: (404) 427-1150

Clip Art Vendors

This section was submitted by Dmitry S. Simanenkov in Aug, 1993.

Although not directly related to type, a list of clip art vendors seems to compliment the list of type/font vendors.

3G Graphics, Inc.                  eps borders, simbols for MAC
114 Second Ave.South, Suite 104
Edmonds, WA 98020
(206) 774-3518
(206) 771-8975

ArtBytes                           Hi-Fi  Borders for security
Ozerkova 51-2-13                   paper, stock, certificate etc.
Peterburg                          bitmap & eps, CorelDraw
198903                             IBM & MAC
Russia                      
simon@dc1.phys.samson.spb.su

ArtBeats
20083
San Bernardino, CA, 92406
(800) 444-9392
(714) 881-1200

Best Impression
3844 W. Channel Islands Blvd.
Suite. 234
Oxnard, CA 93035
(805) 984-9748

Dynamic Graphics, Inc.
Designers Club, Creative Art
6000 N. Forest Park Dr.
Peoria, IL 61656-1901
(800) 255-8800
(309) 688-8800
(309) 688-5873

FM Waves
70 Derby Alley
San Francisco, CA 94102
(800) 487-1234
(415) 474-7464

Grafx Associates                    Borders
12811
Tucson, AZ 85732-2811
(800) 628-2149

Kinetic Presentation, Inc.
250 Distillery Commons
Louisville, KY 40206
(502) 583-1679

Metro Image Base, Inc.
18623 Ventura Blvd
Suite 210
Tarzana, CA 91356
(800) 525-1552
(818) 881-1997

Micrografx, Inc.
1303 Arapaho Rd.
Richardson, TX 75081
(800) 733-3729
(214) 234-1769

Migraph, Inc.
200 S.333 Rd. Suite 220
Federal Way, WA 98003
(800) 223-3729
(206) 838-4677

Multi-Ad Service, Inc.
1720 W. Detweiller Dr.
Peoria, IL 61615
(800) 447-1950
(309) 692-1530

Qualitas Trading Co.
6907 Norfolk Rd.
Berkley, CA 94705
(510) 848-8080

RT Computer Graphics
2257 Calle Cacique
Santa Fe, NM 87505

Stephen & Associates
8681 N. Magnolia Ave Suite E
Santee, CA 92071-4456
(619) 562-5803

Studio Advertising Art
43912
Las Vegas, NV 89116
(800) 453-1860
(702) 641-7041

Sun Shine                             CD-ROM, Visual Delights
4351
Austin, TX 78765
(512) 453-2334


Excerpted from The comp.fonts FAQ, Copyright © 1992-96 by Norman Walsh