Bitstream Inc. is a type foundry that produces digital typefaces (fonts). Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, it claims to be the oldest such company. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Matthew Carter (born 1937) is a designer of digital fonts. ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Senators Edward Kennedy (D) John Kerry (D) Official language(s) English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...

Besides building a library of "classic" fonts (usually under different names for trademark reasons), Bitstream has developed a number of fonts itself. The Bitstream font collection is most widely used through its inclusion with the CorelDraw software. Bitstream also created the free font Bitstream Vera. Screenshot of CorelDRAW 11 CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. ... Bitstream Vera is a typeface (font) with a liberal license. ...

Another Bitstream product is Font Fusion, a font rasterizing engine developed jointly with Type Solutions.

The company had a high level of involvement in BeOS, with older BeOS releases using a now-outdated Bitstream renderer, and the latest development releases from 2001 using Font Fusion. The OS, including its freeware releases, included a large number of Bitstream fonts, including their clones of Times New Roman, Helvetica and Courier. BeOS was an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1991. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Times New Roman is a serif typeface, developed for The Times (London) newspaper in the early 1930s, designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent, and produced by the Monotype Corporation. ... Helvetica is a typeface developed by Max Miedinger in 1957 for the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei type foundry of Switzerland. ... Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ...

Their best known font is Swiss 721 BT, which is a Helvetica clone, but has condensed versions, and a rounded version that is closer to Comic Sans MS than a Swiss family font. It was amongst the first digitally available Swiss family typefaces, being designed for that purpose in 1982. Comic Sans is a digital typeface from Microsoft Corporation designed to imitate comic book lettering, for use in casual and informal settings. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Image File history File links Converted to PNG and made transparent by Fibonacci. ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ...

External link

• Bitstream website