The African Fonts is a unique text-tool for cultural scientists, graphic designers, artists, journalists or people that simply like the vast variety of African symbols. It is the first compilation of its kind. This world-wide unique collection of African fonts offers you the possibility to use African characters, symbols and letters with any of the commonly used text-, layout- and graphic tools (e.g.Adobe Photoshop, MS-Word , Quark X-Press) on your PC/Mac. 4000 symbols, pictograms, ideograms and modern letters of natural beauty and aesthetic simplicity in one database."The African Fonts" is divided into four groups, each group reflecting a specific stage of development in the art of African writing.Short description of each group