Princess Amber Standard

The Princess Amber Standard is a font based on Futura. It was commisioned by Princess Amber in 1953 (at that time Princess Amber was dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West; she continued to be dressed as a Wicked Witch until 1969). It is a geometric sans-serif font, inspired by geometric handwriting by Princess Amber. This font replaces few serif fonts used by Princess Amber. Originally it only covered English, French and Italian languages, they were later expanded to cover other languages such as Spanish and Russian.

Font characteristics
The font has some characteristics:
 * Serifs on 'I' and 'J'
 * Number '4' in its alternative form
 * Straight 'M'
 * Lowercase 'q' with a hook
 * Lowercase 'u' does not look like sans-serif lowercase upsilon 'υ' in this font

Usage
Princess Amber Standard has been a favourite font for Princess Amber from 1953 to 2012. After 2012, Princess Amber uses Whitney, but Princess Amber Standard remains a font for advertisements, clocks, navigation bars and headings on Princess Amber's official website.

This font is also used in Reading A-Z books (www.readinga-z.com)

Edgar Peepleson also uses this font along with Breeze Sans. Goldie Locks from Goldie & Bear also uses this font.

Princess Amber Standard, 1953 specimen

 * 1) English alphabet
 * 2) Numbers and fractions
 * 3) Punctuation
 * 4) Mathematical operators
 * 5) French and Italian accented letters
 * 6) Ligatures
 * 7) Greek alphabet
 * 8) Currency symbols

Princess Amber Standard, 1997 specimen

 * 1) English alphabet
 * 2) Numbers and fractions
 * 3) Punctuation
 * 4) Mathematical operators
 * 5) Accented letters, for Romance langauges, Hungarian and German
 * 6) Accented letters, for Slavic languages and transcription
 * 7) Ligatures
 * 8) Modifier letters
 * 9) POJ diacritical marks
 * 10) Extended accented letters primarily for transcription, Pinyin and Vietnamese
 * 11) Greek alphabet
 * 12) Currency symbols
 * 13) Russian alphabet
 * 14) Cyrillic letters for languages like Serbian, Ukarinian and Macedonian
 * 15) Greek Extended
 * 16) IPA letters
 * 17) Arabic alphabet
 * 18) East Arabic numerals
 * 19) Enclosed alphanumerics
 * 20) Alternative forms

Digitised fonts
A few fonts have been digitised:
 * Shannon and Company releases it as Princess Amber in 2001.
 * Typodermic Fonts releases it as Report School in 2010.