The Electronic Font Foundry (EFF) was a business engaged in the design and sale of

computer font A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. A computer font is designed and created using a font editor. A computer font specifically designed for the computer screen, and not for print ...

s. It was established in 1984 and produced fonts in

PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Br ...

TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating sy ...

and formats. It produced fonts in more than 60 languages. The company's

public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, ...

CD-ROM A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data. Computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both comput ...

, released in 1997, includes conversions of public domain fonts to the format. It also includes a cataloguing tool.

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1997 Public Domain RISC OS CD image
Commercial type foundries Software companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Ascot, Berkshire Software companies established in 1984 1984 establishments in England RISC OS {{Ict-company-stub