The Electronic Font Foundry
The Electronic Font Foundry (EFF) was a business engaged in the design and sale of computer fonts. It was established in 1984 by Polish physicist Dr Edward Detyna, and produced fonts in PostScript, TrueType and  formats. It produced fonts in more than 60 languages. EFF produced high quality RISC OS versions of many popular fonts and typefaces, as well as a large collection of exclusive designs. EFF  fonts were the first (besides those produced by ) to contain kerning data. Dr Detyna was instumental in the inclusion of several advanced typographical features into later versions of . He designed the MetaFont, used internally by Acorn, EFF and other font foundries to generate fonts for less common Latin and Cyrillic character sets. The company's public domain  CD-ROM, released in 1997, includes conversions of public domain fonts to the  format. It also includes a cataloguing tool. References

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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