Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC)

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AUD $64.95AUD $399.00

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Powerful, quick and easy

Makes perfect joins as you typeAussie School Fonts Plus is the complete handwriting suite for all Australian schools that faithfully accords with each Australian State’s requirement

With Aussie School Fonts Plus we’ve managed to turn handwriting guides designed for children to write easily and fluently with pens and pencils into a computer fonts cognizant of the nuances of the handwriting style! We’ve done all this without modifying the original style to fit our technology. In fact we have formed the technology to mimic the handwriting. No easy task but the result is powerful and easy to use.

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Makes perfect cursive joins as you type

In addition to the all the printing fonts, Aussie School Fonts Plus uses of our SmartLink™ Logic to enable teachers to create and edit any cursive type-based material live and on the fly in the handwriting font of their choice. This incredible, ingenious innovation makes cursive (running writing) and speed loop styles really easy to replicate on the computer.

Aust All StatesAustralian States covered with Aussie School Fonts Plus:

Indigenous Language support

Powerful features

  • handwriting 1Includes 248 freshly and meticulously updated fonts that accurately conform to the latest style guides from each Australian State and Territory
  • Its simple, dynamic use of our SmartLink™ Logic has allowed us be truer than ever to the published standards!
  • Vastly superior to every other school font ever published including the previous standard, our own 20-year-old Aussie School Fonts Deluxe
  • Unique 70+ character Utility Font that allows teachers to create a variety of blank guideline and slope line teaching materials
  • BOLD versions of all solid fonts
  • Outline, Numbered, Dashed (dotted) versions of all fonts

So simple to use

handwriting 2To use Aussie School Fonts Plus you simply install the set of fonts relevant to your state on your Mac or PC, open your favourite word processor, including Microsoft Word and Apple Pages, select the font variant you want to use and start typing. The magic happens live on screen with each keystroke! SmartLink™ Logic invisibly takes care of the complex matters of selecting the forms of the letters and joins live and on the fly using a library of over 1,800+ logical rules and the hundreds of glyphs (characters)! The result is perfect handwriting that accords with the latest style guides issued by the Department of Education in your State!

Use the fonts with your word processor and other software

Using Aussie School Fonts Plus with your word processor or desktop publishing software is easy. Using with Word and other software

Aussie School Fonts Bonus! Unique Utility Font

Contains a unique Aussie School Fonts Plus School Utility Font with 70+ utility characters that you can use to build a vast variety of guidelines and slope line teaching resources.

Makes the impossible possible

Aussie School Fonts Plus FireflyHandwriting standards are created to help kids learn to write with fluency and style. As they develop as hand writers, they move from single letters standing by themselves to simple joins and finally to speed loops. This dynamic means that it is impossible to faithfully model handwriting through fonts by simply turning each letter into a character and joining them in a mechanical way in a computer font. Handwriting guides are designed to be easy to write not easy to use on a computer. To reproduce the state-defined handwriting styles in a font is a complex task requiring a solution that adapts to context. Exactly what Aussie School Fonts Plus has done!

The essential tool for teachers

Handwriting ideas

Using Aussie School Fonts Plus teachers can quickly and easily create their own handwriting material in the designated font for their state in print, pre-cursive, cursive or speed loop variants. Create and edit in a flash Aussie School Fonts Plus allows you to edit your creations instantaneously. It seems incredible but when using the cursive and speed loops fonts the forms of the letters and joins adjust in front of your eyes as you edit your work. You can delete or add letters to work, copy and paste, spell check and even apply outline, guideline or arrowed variants of the font. It is truly incredible!

Additional information

Licence

Home (Single Computer), School Network < 150 Students, School Network > 150 Students

Samples

Samples of the fonts in Aussie School Fonts Plus

Click a thumbnail to view a sample of your State or Territory’s fonts

Detailed information for the font sets for each state

Indigenous Language support

Table of Fonts Included

224 OpenType fonts in total with 28 for each State or Territory including ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC , WA covering:

  • Print Regular
  • Print Dashed
  • Print Outline
  • Print Guide Lined Regular
  • Print Guide Lined Dashed
  • Print Arrow Regular
  • Print Arrow Dashed
  • Print Arrow Outline
  • Print Arrow Guide Lined Regular
  • Print Arrow Guide Lined Dashed
  • Pre Cursive Regular
  • Pre Cursive Dashed
  • Pre Cursive Outline
  • Pre Cursive Guide Lined Regular
  • Pre Cursive Guide Lined Dashed
  • Pre Cursive Arrow Regular
  • Pre Cursive Arrow Dashed
  • Pre Cursive Arrow Outline
  • Pre Cursive Arrow Guide Lined Regular
  • Pre Cursive Arrow Guide Lined Dashed
  • Cursive Regular
  • Cursive Dashed
  • Cursive Guide Lined Regular
  • Cursive Guide Lined Dashed
  • Speed Loops Regular
  • Speed Loops Dashed
  • Speed Loops Guide Lined Regular
  • Speed Loops Guide Lined Dashed

SmartLink™ Logic Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus

Perfect joins as you type!

Our SmartLink™ logic, used in the cursive and speed loops fonts, dynamically and instantly selects multiple variants of letters and joins live as you type, to give perfectly styled,seamless handwriting live. Its fontastic!

  • Doesn’t need a helper program, it just works!
  • Covers every possible letter and join combination
  • Install on any computer and just start typing in your favourite software. It’s that simple!
  • This dynamic technology that has allowed us be truer than ever to the published standards!

We have done the impossible!

Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus

We’ve managed to turn handwriting guides designed for children to write easily and fluently with pens and pencils into a computer font cognisant of the nuances of the handwriting style! We’ve done all this without modifying the original style to fit our technology. In fact we have formed the technology to mimic the handwriting. No easy task and it’s so easy to use!

What goes on as you type?

An Aussie School Font Plus Cursive or Speed Loop font contains up to 390 different glyphs (characters) to represent the 26 letters of the alphabet and their joins. Each time you type a letter the font intelligently assesses its relationship to the letters either side of it and dynamically substitutes the appropriate glyphs for the context. For example, to make sure that the ‘w’ and the ‘e’ in “wet” join correctly the technology dynamically selects a version of the ‘e’ and its corresponding join that links it all seamlessly together. The same logic easily accommodates the differences that arise in the joins needed for ‘le’ in ‘least’ and the ‘we’ in ‘west’ or the ‘ro’ in the ‘row’ compared to the ‘to’ in ‘tow’. It’s complex but it all happens seamlessly on the fly!

Aussie School Fonts Plus is different to other fonts

Some states publish rudimentary fonts as a basic guide but they only have a single undeveloped character set and are never able to link. Over the years other publishers have tried to produce dynamic, linking fonts but the results fall far short of the standard achieved in this monumental project!

Key Features

Key Features and System Requirements

Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus What makes Aussie School Fonts Plus special?

  • A compilation of 248 dynamic OpenType fonts aligned to the standards for all 8 Australian states and territories covering Print, PreCursive, Cursive, & Speed Loops writing styles with Regular, Outline, Dashed, Arrow and Guideline variants
  • Vastly superior to every other school font ever published including the previous standard, our own 20-year-old Aussie School Fonts Deluxe
  • Uses our specially developed SmartLink™ Logic to dynamically select the appropriate glyphs (characters) and joins instantly to give perfectly styled, seamlessly joined Australian handwriting in real time
  • Incorporates diagonal, drop-in, horizontal and up-sweeping joins and multiple variants of letters to cover every possible letter and join combination
  • Eliminates the need for “Helper” software to arrange text and create joins. It all now happens in real time.
  • Install on any computer and just start typing in your favourite software to create perfect handwriting in front of your eyes
  • Uses the highest standards in fontography to give professional results for Aussie teachers
  • Can be scaled to any size without loss of quality
  • Bonus Utility Font that allows teachers to create a variety of blank guideline and slope line teaching materials
  • Bold versions of all regular fonts
  • Pre-made pdf slope cards in a variety of weights and spacings

System Requirements

Windows: Windows XP with Service Pack 3 and later (including Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 8 & Windows 10)

  • Software supported:
  • Microsoft Word 2010 and later (must enable “Ligatures” accessible from the “Font” menu or see the Word manual for details)
  • Adobe CS2 Products and later
  • OpenOffice Writer 3.2 and later
  • Any software that supports OpenType Ligatures typography
  • IMPORTANT: Please note that SMART Notebook (for use on SMART Interactive Whiteboards) does NOT support the Open Type Ligatures and is incompatible with Aussie School Fonts Plus.

Mac OS X v. 10.4.11 to 10.12 – Note the installer does not work on OS X High Sierra 10.13 or later. Direct links to the font files can be provided upon request after purchase.

  • Software supported:
  • Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 and later (must enable “Ligatures” accessible from the “Format” menu or see the Word manual for details)
  • Pages
  • Keynote
  • TextEdit
  • Adobe CS2 Products and later
  • Any software that supports OpenType Ligatures typography

Linux:

  • Software supported:
  • AbiWord
  • LibreOffice Writer
  • GNU TeXmacs
  • Listed Windows programs running on Wine
  • Any software that supports OpenType Ligatures typography

Parents and Home Users

Use Aussie School Fonts Plus at Home

Aussie School Fonts Plus brings the correct handwriting style for your child right into your home. When young children start to write the letters of the alphabet they need to have clear images of the correct style to work from. Model the wrong structures and confusion can ensue. With Aussie School Fonts Plus what is done at home and at school work together. Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus

  • Simply install Aussie School Fonts Plus on your home computer or your child’s laptop and the incredible power of the inbuilt SmartLink™ Logic will go to work. You’ll be able to show your kids how to write right!
  • Aussie School Fonts Plus contains a progressive range of fonts designed by educators to grow with your child. Starting with simple print and progressing all the way to speed loops, Aussie School Fonts Plus is a full writing program in a font set!
  • By using Aussie School Fonts Plus with your child you’ll immerse them in exemplars of good handwriting practice and give them accurate mental pictures to emulate. By having them trace the dashed and outline fonts they’ll build solid kinaesthetic memory and rapidly become stylish, fluent writers.

Teachers and School Users

Full curriculum correlation with all handwriting guidelines

Aussie School fonts Plus gives teachers the vital tools they need to impart the essential skill of handwriting to children of all ages. It gives full support for all of the National, State and Territory handwriting guidelines.

The Australian National Curriculum

The National Curriculum requires that students commence learning to write by producing upper and lower case letters and progress through the years to write fluently and legibly with developing automaticity (see below for the relevant ACARA Content Descriptors). This is accomplished at a state and territory level by each of the education authorities prescribing the style of handwriting to be taught in their schools. Each font has been meticulously designed to represent the relevant state guide. Starting with Print characters and moving to PreCursive and then to Cursive all the tools are there to make teaching so much easier. Once the foundation is formed then the Speed loops version of the fonts will encourage the development of fluency and speed. Our SmartLink™ Logic built right into the Cursive and Speed loop fonts allows you to create and edit your text live and on the fly with perfect joins every time. Aussie School Fonts Plus it truly amazing. Aussie School Fonts Plus fully covers the scope of the handwriting activities described in the National Curriculum and interpreted in the state guidelines.

  • FOUNDATION: ACELY 1653- Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
  • YEAR ONE: ACELY 1663- Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
  • YEAR TWO: ACELY 1673- Write legibly with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
  • YEAR THREE: ACELY 1684- Write using joined letters that are clearly-formed and consistent in size
  • YEAR FOUR: ACELY 1696- Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity
  • YEAR FIVE: ACELY 1706- Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic
  • YEAR SIX: ACELY 1716- Develop a handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and varies according to audience and purpose
  • YEAR SEVEN: ACELY 1727- Consolidate a personal handwriting style that is legible, fluent and automatic and supports writing for extended periods

State and Territory Curricula

The Aussie School Fonts Plus renditions of the various state styles are based on the following materials:

  • Tasmania
    • 2009 Tasmanian Education Department publication “Handwriting”
    • “Basic Handwriting” by Marlene Cox, Tasmanian Education Department,1985 (ISBN 0 7246 1313 7).
    • Covers: Tasmania Print, Tasmania PreCursive, Tasmania Cursive
  • South Australian Modern Cursive
    • “Handwriting – South Australian Modern Cursive” published by the Education Department of South Australia,1983, Reprinted 1996 (ISBN 0 7243 7173 7
    • “Handwriting in the South Australian Curriculum 2nd Edition” published by the Education Department of South Australia, 2007 (ISBN 1 9212 3305 2).
    • Covers: South Australian PreCursive, South Australian Modern Cursive
  • Queensland Modern Cursive, QCursive
    • Year 1-3 Queensland Department of Education handwriting resources
    • Alphabet Pack Year 1 (PR114), Letter book Year 2 (PR115) and Handwriting Pack Year 3 (PR121), published by the Open Access Unit, 1997 and the QLD Beginner Yr 4-7
    • “The Teaching of Handwriting in Years 4-7”: A Handbook published by Queensland Department of Education, Curriculum Development Services, 1984, Reprinted 1990 (ISBN 0 7242 4108 6).
    • Covers: Queensland PreCursive, Queensland Cursive
  • Victorian Modern Cursive
    • The Teaching of Handwriting Revised Edition published by the Victorian Department of Education and Training, 2002 (ISBN 0 7594 0240 X)
    • The Teaching of Handwriting, published in 1985 (ISBN 0 7241 7433 8)
    • Covers: Victorian Infant Cursive, Victorian Modern Cursive, Victorian Cursive
    • Also used in Western Australia, Northern Territory
  • New South Wales Foundation Handwriting Style
    • Writing K-12, Chapter VI – Handwriting: Teaching the Foundation Approach, NSW Department of Education,1987 (ISBN 0 7305 3640 8). NSW Manuscript.
    • Covers: New South Wales PreCursive, New South Wales Foundation Cursive, New South Wales Cursive, New South Wales Speed Loops
    • Also used in the ACT
  • Yougnu Anangu

Use Aussie School Fonts Plus in your class/school to: Aussie School Fonts Plus (PC/MAC) » Aussie School Fonts Plus

  • Enhance the quality and relevance of your personally created teaching materials
  • Create you own handwriting style-guides, writing sheets and teaching materials for your own class
  • Model handwriting in all your printed materials
  • Install the fonts on children’s computers to familiarise them with the standards
  • Apply the fonts to existing texts, transforming them into exemplars of correct style
  • Create accurate mental images of the handwriting characters in the minds of your students
  • Build appropriate kinaesthetic memory as the children trace the letters