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Ascender Corporation intros Rebus Script

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USA: Ascender Corporation, provider of advanced font products has announced their newest OpenType font called Rebus Script to showcase the advanced features available in OpenType fonts for creative applications.

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Rebus Script is a handwriting style script font that includes a set of pictorial symbols that can automatically replace certain words and syllables.

Rebus Script uses the Contextual Alternate feature that is available in many OpenType-savvy applications including Adobe Creative Suite or QuarkXPress (on Windows or Mac OS X) and Mellel or iWork (with Mac OS X 10.5+).

The font is available in both TrueType and OpenType formats for Windows and Mac OS X.

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The Rebus Script font was created by Ascender's Terrance Weinzierl after much research into the art of rebuses - representations of words and phrases which are substituted with pictures.

 The Rebus Script font can be used to create messages, riddles and puzzles that inspire, amuse and challenge readers to decode the pictures and the words or syllables they represent.

To use Rebus Script you simply type a word like "sun" or "son" and those letters will automatically be replaced by a picture of the sun. There are over 70 pictorial symbols in Rebus Script that make up the "vocabulary" for automatic substitution based on over 300 different syllable/word combinations in the English language, said the press release.

 

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