NORTHAMPTON, England--()--Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced the immediate availability of Suitcase Fusion™ 3, the newest version of the professional-grade font manager for Macintosh® and Windows® operating systems and WebINK (www.webink.com), their new web font rental service.
“Typography has always been a part of high-quality print design. WebINK allows designers to be as discriminating about their typography on the web, as they have been in print”
Designers are inherently multi-disciplined and often need to articulate their designs uniformly across multiple publishing media – both printed and the Web.
Suitcase Fusion enables designers to browse, preview, select and manage fonts wherever they may be required – from the desktop to the web.
Features of Suitcase Fusion 3 include:
- Seamless integration with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS5 via font auto-activation plug-ins, including NEW plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop CS5 & CS4 (32 and 64-bit)
- Web font selection and management through the Extensis WebINK® font rental service
- Web Preview mode allows users to see effects of using desktop and WebINK fonts on any web site
- Suggests ‘more fonts like this’ using QuickMatch technology to locate similar fonts
- Application Sets that immediately activate selected fonts when an application launches
- Font Snapshots for quickly creating PNG font previews
- Localization into French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
Web design has been stuck for over a decade with just a few "standard" fonts. WebINK helps set a new standard for high quality web typography by giving designers access to high-quality web fonts, enabling them to use real typefaces on their site without worrying about supported font formats or font licensing issues. WebINK can be accessed online, or through the unique WebINK features integrated into Suitcase Fusion 3.
WebINK Key Features include:
- Quality font selection: Extensis has partnered with expert type designers and foundries to create a large, excellent selection of high quality typography for use on the web.
- Ease of use: WebINK is as simple as CSS. Select fonts, generate the CSS, and then integrate into a website like any other font.
- Compliance: Most desktop fonts aren’t licensed for use on the web. Extensis handles the font licensing issues by providing web fonts at a reasonable price, keeping designers safe and legal.
- Portability: With WebINK when a project is complete, it’s a snap for the Web designer to transfer the web font rental responsibility over to the client for ongoing maintenance.
- Speed and reliability: By partnering with Amazon S3, WebINK is robust, reliable and fast. The global network delivers web fonts as they're needed, quickly and consistently to web browsers 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world.
“Typography has always been a part of high-quality print design. WebINK allows designers to be as discriminating about their typography on the web, as they have been in print,” said Celartem CEO, Osamu Ikeda.
WebINK Features Quality Web Fonts
With an eye for quality, Extensis has partnered with leading type foundries to provide around 2000 high quality web fonts through WebINK; new partners and typefaces are being added regularly. Users can browse, select and implement fonts from any of nine partner foundries.
Partner foundries include:
- Dalton Maag
- Darden Studio
- exljbris
- Mark Simonson Studio
- P22
- Porchez Typofonderie
- ShinnType
- TypeTogether
- URW++
Free 30-day trial
To get started using WebINK, users can select and implement as many web fonts on as many websites free of charge with the automatic 30-day trial. By providing quality web font selections without charge, WebINK encourages creativity and design experimentation previously unavailable in web design.
One FREE Year of WebINK with Suitcase Fusion 3
To help Suitcase Fusion 3 users get a taste of web fonts, each purchase or upgrade to Suitcase Fusion 3 includes one full year of free introductory WebINK service. Whether users are coming from a print design background, or are interested in bringing real fonts to their web designs, Suitcase Fusion and WebINK make it easy to get started with real web fonts. For details about the free WebINK promotion see www.extensis.com/FreeWebINK2010.
Pricing and Availability
Suitcase Fusion 3 is available in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian immediately from leading retail outlets (or www.extensis.com) for 99 € for full product and 49 € for upgrades from previous versions.
About Extensis
Extensis is a leading developer of software enabling creative workgroups and professionals to streamline workflows, securely manage digital assets and fonts, and control corporate typographic branding. Used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies, Extensis' award-winning client/server, desktop, and web service products include: Universal Type Server for server-based font management, Suitcase Fusion for single-user font management, the Portfolio suite for digital asset management, and the WebINK web font rental service. Founded in 1993, Extensis is based in Portland, Oregon, and the United Kingdom. Extensis is a division of Celartem Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For additional information, visit www.extensis.com, www.webink.com or call 1-800-796-9798.
About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc. develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters in Seattle.
Extensis, Universal Type Server, Suitcase Fusion, WebINK, Portfolio Server, NetPublish, and Portfolio SQL Connect are trademarks of Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

