TypeBank and the ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION
Enfour published TypeBank's Japanese typefaces from 1995: the first CID font package and, in 1999, the first embeddable third-party CID fonts.
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TypeBank / ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION
The TypeBank Professional Font Series and ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION TypeBank 01–04: Japanese CID fonts that pioneered PDF embedding.
ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION TypeBank 01
ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION TypeBank 01 (Feb 1999) packaged 16 TypeBank Mincho, Gothic, and Maru Gothic typefaces as PDF-embeddable CID fonts.
ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION TypeBank 02
TypeBank 02 (May 1999) added seven new typefaces, including Midashi Mincho, Classic Mincho, TV Mincho, and Gothic SL, as embeddable CID fonts.
ENFOUR TYPE COLLECTION TypeBank 03 and 04
TypeBank 03 and 04 offered TypeBank 01 and 02 typefaces individually, so designers could license just the faces they needed.
TypeBank Professional Font Series
The TypeBank Professional Font Series (1995–1996) was the world's first CID font package: TypeBank and Ajioka kana fonts in Naked CID and OCF.
Typeface Laboratory: TypeBank’s Design Concept
TypeBank's five-part essay on Japanese type design: what a typeface is, design elements, digital fonts, the family concept, and TypeBank faces.