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Who we are.
Signature Software, Inc. is the leading international producer of custom handwriting fonts and the only producer of custom cursive handwriting fonts. Our mission is to build and improve personal and business relationships utilizing personalized handwritten correspondence. Our headquarters and primary production facility is located in Hood River, Oregon, USA.

Our History.
Signature Software, Inc. was founded in June 1988 and produces and markets low-cost handwriting fonts for Apple Macintosh and Windows users. From 1988 to the spring of 1992, the company's founders developed patented technology and a set of tools for rapidly producing custom fonts that reproduce handwriting. Since each is unique, handwriting fonts represent the most direct and effective way to personalize word processing (and personal computers in general).

In May of 1992, Signature Software released its first product, Personal Font, a custom handwriting font that accurately reproduces a customer's handwriting style. While conventional fonts have a single shape for each upper and lower-case letter, thanks to Signature Software's patented technology, Personal Font varies the shapes of letters as well as their connections. Personal Font is the only context-sensitive custom handwriting font available on the market today, allowing users to create handwritten documents with their personal computers.

In June of 1993, the company introduced its second product, PenFont, a custom font that features a keyboard character set in printed handwriting. PenFont International, an expanded version of PenFont including European accented characters, and WriteType, an enhanced version of Personal Font, were both made available in the fall of 1993. Since then, various handwriting font packs have been brought to the market, including SchoolHouse Fonts, a collection of handwriting fonts designed for teaching handwriting. Personal Font-Western Europe, available in spring of 1997, outfits the original custom handwriting font with the ability to write in various foreign languages. Other products continue to be developed and the product line diversified.

What we do.
Signature Software produces and markets affordable handwriting fonts, allowing Apple Macintosh and Windows (3.1 or above) users to create handwritten documents with their personal computers. We want to help put the "personal" back into personal computing: since each is unique, handwriting fonts represent the most direct and effective way to personalize computer documents (and personal computers in general).

About our products.
Signature Software can create a font from any handwriting style--even connected cursive. Our handwriting fonts are as varied as their users: they can be custom (created from single-page handwriting samples) or in a ready-to-use collection; in printed style, cursive or anywhere in between!

Each Signature Software handwriting font is created individually by a font designer using patented technology. Our dynamic contextual fonts have letters that vary shapes and their connections according to where the letters occur in a word.

Handwriting fonts are produced with the aid of proprietary production software. Custom fonts are created from single-page handwriting samples.

Signature Software abroad.
A Dutch franchise, Signature Software Nederland, was established in Soest, The Netherlands in 1995 to serve the Dutch and Belgian markets. Signature Software CV opened in March of 1997 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to serve the German-language and U.K. markets.

Dutch and Belgian customers please contact:

U.K. and German Customers please contact:

Signature Software Nederland
Postbus 3017
3760 DA Soest
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 35 603 1511
Fax: +31 35 603 1552

Signature Software CV
Brussellaan 2f
5628 TC Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 40 290 3136
Fax: +31 40 290 3137
email: Marieke@euro-sigsoft.com