SASSOON® FONTS: REASONS TO CUSTOMISE

Schools and teachers have their own preferred methods. All have one thing in common. When teaching infant children the structure and movement of handwriting, separate letters are the beginning of the journey. Letterforms which inform the writer where to start, which way to go and where to finish. Later in the journey, when basic structures have been remembered, the writer may develop different routes to achieve the final result; joining the letters together in accordance with a school or national policy before the ultimate aim of finding what joins suit each pupil's personal script. Built into Sassoon fonts are the basic letterform structures needed by all teachers of handwriting for the very young, and to cope with the many alternate views about which letterform is best for a particular model, the fonts have many alternative letterms included.

Because teachers want different alternative characters in their fonts (and fonts have a limited number of characters accessible with a keyboard), we offer to customize the font in a way that provides the user with their chosen standard letters and their alternatives.

You may choose to replace up to 19 characters in the font with alternatives that we have already designed, mixing them in any combination to give you your own 'standard' set of letterforms. The characters will be placed on the usual keyboard keys. Any characters not placed in the standard key positions will become your own personal alternatives (which you may still need from time to time).

In some circumstances entirely new characters may be desrieable. These may be designed to order, compatible with the principles of the original designed letterforms.

There are two methods of storing the alternative characters depending if the font is required in an educational environment such as a school, or if it is required for publishing work in a commercial orgainsation. Education fonts have all alternative built into a single font on little used Maths and Greek letter keys. Publishers fonts have alternative contained in a separate 'Alts' font, because the industry historically has used this method.