The symbol font MARVOSYM.TTF

Useful symbols for the office

In almost every True Type symbol collection there are dozens of arrows and snowflakes. Why isn't there any symbol for an answering machine? Why can't you find a "corresponds to" sign in any math font? Do you really have to purchase a new office software package just for the Euro currency symbol? What about engineering symbols like load, beam or support? I finally decided to design my own symbol font which includes all those missing and badly needed symbols. Here it is.

• Answering machine (German phone book symbol), snail mail letter, electricity symbol, combined e-mail symbol, e-mail symbol similar to that of the c't magazine, right-pointing arrow, empty and checked boxes
• CE symbol, logo of the Fachhochschule Bochum, DM = Euro, currency symbol Euro (original), Euro without serifs, Euro typewriter style, Euro with serifs, funny Dollar sign
• cellular phone (the German word for that apparatus is "Handy"), telephone, fax, fax (bordered), fax machine, wheelchair, man, woman
• civil engineering symbols (beam, supports, torques, loads), factory
• steel profile symbols (flat steel, square pipe, rectangular pipe, L-beam, H-beam, circular pipe, T-beam), stop sign, Bundestag eagle
• steel profile symbols (solid profiles, round-edged profile symbols), Yin and Yang
• conclusion, less-or-equal, corresponds-to, greater-or-equal, equivalence, coffee cup, clock, information, circled A
• scissors and cutting lines, mundus logo, soccer ball, bicycle
• biologic gender symbols (sexless, male, hermaphrodite, female)
• navigation symbols: previous chapter, beginning, back, forward, end, next chapter, laser beam, ionizing radiation
• navigation symbols: up, down, top, bottom - combination symbols: "P", "p" will place an arrow over the letters to their left, "G" and "g" will place a horizontal bar over them and "_" will strike through its left neighbour.

• 1999-03-21 "conclusion-arrow" (what's it's real name?), equivalence-arrow and trefoil symbol for ionizing radiation (radioactivity) added.
• 1999-02-24 Navigation symbols added. Zero modified by slash and Seven modified by bar.
• 1999-02-15 Bundestag eagle added (has to be improved).
• 1999-01-17 more steel profiles, filled gender symbols
• 1999-01-09 additional e-mail symbols
• 1999-01-08 strike through, laser beam
• 1999-01-06 biologic gender symbols
• 1998-11-13 CE Symbol: the third try :-)
• 1998-10-11 Mundus logo (for information about Fair Trade products please ask Claudia Keienburg)
• 1998-09-14 Less/greater-or-equal; corresponds-to updated; Euro on "DM"; Numerals completed: "+-╫/()0123456789" (three other symbols had to be moved to other code positions because of this: right arrow, concentrated load, distributed load - old texts with this symbols will have to be revised)
• 1998-07-24 Restroom symbols; funny Dollar sign (for information about the necessity of adding eyes to a currency symbol please ask Microsoft)
• 1998-05-17 Steel profiles; Euro symbol enlarged
• 1998-05-16 Vector arrows
• 1998-05-11 Euro in Helvetica, Courier and Times; CE symbol revised (Thanks to Martin Hauptmann)
• 1998-04-10 CE symbol; FHBO logo updated
• 1998-02-03 Cellular phone; new editor: Softy instead of Corel Draw
• 1997-12-28 Euro symbol
• 1996-11-25 Civil engineering symbols
• 1996-11-23 Scissors symbols
• 1995-08-16 First publishing of the font in the Fido net

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Links about Fonts

• The MARVOSYM.TTF-FAQ - frequently asked questions.
• Thomas Henlich of TU Dresden converted the True Type Font into a Type 1 Font with Style File for LaTeX.
• The freeware program Extended Character Map by Sony Arianto Kurniawan displays the characters of any font in a recognizable size.
• The Shareware Font Editor Softy by D.W. Emmett for True Type and Bitmap Fonts. With this editor I made MARVOSYM.TTF.
• The Freeware Font Editor Too Late ("2L8") for DOS Bitmap Fonts.
• Lots of typographically designed Euro symbols: Skylla Euro Collection
• Peter Sekora's Euro-Info-Pages
• Liguria Online (Italia)
• For Mac users: The MacCampus EuroLogo Font.
• The European Commission defined the Euro symbol as a strictly geometric logo. (There used to be a sentence here about goggle eyes and ignorance, but I removed it because of the letter I received from an annoyed Microsoft employee who likes the Comic Sans font Euro character the way it is.)
• Hewlett Packard and the Euro Symbol
• An interesting Euro currency calculator for the Windows tray. (Shareware, EUR 29.94)
• More than 1000 font links at The True Type Resource

The usual showing-off

	Hey, thanks: NONAGS gave 5 ducks for Marvosym.TTF :-)
	The buyers of the Ziff Davis publication PC Professionell seem to like the font, too...