demand for localized Cyrillic and Baltic versions of fonts is what caused the fonts and software company Tilde to be founded in 1991. Since its origin, Tilde has been offering localized fonts from many font collections, fonts licensing and fonts customization and localization services.

eing located in Riga – the centre of the Baltic countries, Tilde is a central repository of fonts for the Baltics and a door to Eastern European typography. Since its beginnings Tilde has created over 1000 localized Baltic and Eastern European fonts and over 300 Cyrillic fonts. Working under contracts with other fonts design and distribution companies, we offer original fonts in original quality for your language!

omplete collection of Tilde Localized Fonts can be previewed in our Catalogs page. People enjoy viewing fonts catalogs, and love having fonts. However, fonts are a special type of software, and it must be bought and licensed. Fonts are protected by copyright laws and their legal use is described in the enclosed End User License Agreement.

esign of each font is most often unique. Some fonts have design characteristics similar to the fonts from ancient original metal types. Designing fonts is a time-consuming process. It takes weeks, months and years until ideas are transformed to their computerized form. Fonts are designed by artists, graphics and arts designers. Fonts are made from design outlines by fonts engineers ensuring proper quality and function in all environments. Design and localization of fonts at Tilde is supervised by Tilde Art Director Gustavs A. Grinbergs.

ach computer user needs fonts! Sure, many get their job done with the common Arial and Times New Roman types, but today thousands of fonts are available to choose from, and you can format your designs and documents in your own style. That is why Tilde has licensed fonts from the most renowned font companies. Fonts are available as single fonts, font families, font sets and font collections. Licensing fonts for multiple workstations makes buying fonts cost-effective.

ont technology has developed over the last 10 years. From fixed size bitmap fonts to scalable PostScript, TrueType and OpenType fonts. From encodings that cover a few Western languages to universal Unicode containing many scripts and languages. Fonts can be made in platform specific formats and in universal cross-platform formats, many technical realizations but the same appearance. Tilde keeps at the cutting edge of font technology enabling us to offer best quality products and services.

ustavs Grinbergs is an Art Director at Tilde. He specializes in designing authentic Cyrillic types to the original Roman fonts. He also designs his own typefaces. Gustavs Grinbergs is a winner of Linotype font design contests TakeType 3 in 1996 and in International Type Design Contest 2003. Apart from designing type he teaches Graphic Design at Janis Rozentals Riga Art School.

What should one know when buying fonts?

• Font names or typical design properties of the typefaces
  E.g. News Gothic Condensed or another condensed sans-serif font
• Operating systems where the fonts will be used
  E.g. Macintosh OS X, or Windows XP Pro
• Applications which will use the fonts
  E.g. QuarkXPress 7, or Adobe InDesign CS2
• Languages to be processed
  E.g. Russian and Lithuanian
• Number of workstations that will use the fonts
  E.g. on 10 computers
• Printers and other output devices that will be used with the fonts
  E.g. HP LaserJet 4000 and Adobe Acrobat 7