What features offers the EmWi font package?

Description

This article describes the features and the intention of the EmWi font package.

Solution

We investigated several fonts for good readability in UI applications before we made a license agreement for our EmWi font package with Linotype. This license  offers our customers the possibility to launch their products without expensive and difficult font licensing procedures. The font package contains 2 true type fonts (Helvetica and Frutiger), each with normal and bold font weight. One font supports 48 Latin-based languages, the other font additionally supports Non-Latin languages like Greek and Cyrillic.

For a very small license fee (~300 EUR) our customers can use the EmWi-generated bitmap glyphs of these fonts for mass production without limitation or further royalties. However, the license does not cover the usage of the TTFs with EmWi platform packages that have a true type font engine integrated.

Even if the font package covers a wide range of characters, you should be aware that the fonts from the EmWi font package might not fulfill all customers’ requirements (e.g. there are some characters missing for the DTG certification for an EPG application, there are no Arabic or CJK characters covered for the Asian market, etc.).  In case of such requirements we recommend to contact directly to Linotype or any other font license holder who can fulfill these requirements.

Note: TARA-Systems earns no money with the EmWi font package license - it’s a rooting through of the license fee to Linotype.

See also

What fonts can I use in EmWi?

Keywords

Font, TTF, true type font, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Asian, Arabic, EmWi font package