Pro Typography // Ascender 2010 Font Pack

The Ascender 2010 Font Pack features 14 fonts with enhanced OpenType features to showcase the advanced typographic features that are new in Microsoft® Word 2010 and Microsoft Publisher 2010.

All the fonts and new OpenType features were developed by the type experts at Ascender Corp and optimized for Microsoft Office 2010. Included are fonts from both the Microsoft and Ascender font collections, including new and enhanced versions of Comic Sans and Trebuchet. View 2010 Font Pack Overview (PDF file)

The new OpenType font features are:

• Ligatures (standard, contextual, discretionary/historical)
• Number spacing (tabular, proportional)
• Number forms (lining, old-style)
• Stylistic Sets (up to 20 pre-programmed sets)
• Contextual Alternates
• Swashes (Publisher 2010 only)
• Stylistic Alternates (Publisher 2010 only)

Examples of new OpenType features in Office 2010: