FFONTIAU CYMRAEG

Our standard Ffontiau Cymraeg pack contains the fonts shown above; they substitute for commonly used standard fonts: Afallon (Avante Garde), Cwrwgl (Courier), Heledd (Helvetica/Ariel), Padarn (Palatino), and Teifryn (Times). They are supplied in plain, bold, italic and bold italic typefaces in TrueType and Postscript formats.

 

Background

MEU Cymru first developed and published the Ffontiau Cymraeg Welsh fonts and keyboard driver pack in 1993. They have been used thoughout Wales in that period by national and local government, by publishers, utitily companies and a wide range of public and voluntary bodies as well as extensively in schools.

Even today when Unicode fonts are included in computers with many of these including the Welsh accented characters, it is not easy to access these characters from the keyboard, so our  AcenSyml2.1 keyboard driver is still an important tool in keeping the Welsh language up to date with current practice.

Technical

The PC fonts are fully conformant to ISO-IR 6, the Welsh variant of the international standard, ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin1), They are also conformant to the Celtic-specific international standard ISO/IEC 8859-14 (Latin 8).
The Mac OS fonts are conformant to the Mac OS Celtic standard developed by MEU Cymru and Everson Gunn Teoranta.
For more information on Celtic character sets, see http://www.egt.ie/celtscript/celtcode.html

The AcenSyml Keyboard driver

The AcenSyml/EZAccent keyboard driver included in the package enables you to type the accented characters easily:

PC (Windows)	AcenSyml 2.1 for Windows 95, 98, ME, XP. NT, 2000
Macintosh OS6,7,8,9	Keyboard map which loads into your Apple Mac
Macintosh System X	You can set this up with its own Welsh keyboard driver. Click here for details

Ffontiau Cymraeg for PC Windows or Apple Macintosh 2 floppy discs containing the 5 fonts in TrueType and PostScript format, plus user guide. Available for e-mail delivery

Price: £30.00 (including carriage)

Lower cost options

AcenSyml 2.1 keyboard driver upgrade - (existing users)	£10
One font with AcenSyml 2.1 keyboard driver	£15
Two fonts with AcenSyml 2.1 keyboard driver	£20
Three fonts with AcenSyml 2.1 keyboard driver	£25

MULTI_USER DISCOUNTS

Other packages from MEU Cymru - fonts and patterns

Ffontiau Cymraeg fonts for primary schoolchildren Celtic fonts Gwalia - celtic font Pysgod ac Adar - celtic capitals Celtic Patterns Chain elements in font format and as images for creating celtic designs Adnoddau CD Rom A collection of all MEU Cymru patterns and fonts Price £30 Price £20 Price £20 Price £50

E-mail mail@meucymru.co.uk

Order by e-mail, telephone or by posting a cheque or official order to:
MEU Cymru, 57 Beulah Road, Rhiwbina, CARDIFF CF14 6LU
Tel/Fax: 029 20 628300