These OpenType fonts, created by Ascender Corporation and licensed by Microsoft, are free for you to use in your XNA Game Studio game. You may redistribute these fonts in their original format as part of your game. Note that fonts are licensed and not sold, and that most commercial fonts, and most fonts supplied with Microsoft products such as Windows and Office, are not licensed for redistribution with games or other applications. It is your responsibility to make sure any fonts you include with your games are properly licensed for redistribution.

This zip file contains twenty-eight font files in OpenType .ttf format:

Name	File
Andy Bold	andyb.ttf
Jing Jing	JingJing.ttf
Kootenay	Kooten.ttf
Lindsey	Linds.ttf
Miramonte	Miramo.ttf
Miramonte Bold	Miramob.ttf
Moire Bold	Moire-Bold.ttf
Moire ExtraBold	Moire-ExtraBold.ttf
Moire Light	Moire-Light.ttf
Moire Regular	Moire-Regular.ttf
Motorwerk	MotorwerkOblique.ttf
News Gothic	NGO_____.ttf
News Gothic Bold	NGOB_____.ttf
OCR A Extended	OCRAExt.ttf
Pericles	Peric.ttf
Pericles Light	Pericl.ttf
Pescadero	Pesca.ttf
Pescadero Bold	Pescab.ttf
Quartz MS	QuartzMS.ttf
Segoe Keycaps	SegoeKeycaps.ttf
Segoe Print	segoepr.ttf
Segoe Print Bold	segoeprb.ttf
Segoe UI Mono Bold	SegoeUIMono-Bold.ttf
Segoe UI Mono	SegoeUIMono-Regular.ttf
Wasco Sans Bold	wscsnbd.ttf
Wasco Sans Bold Italic	wscsnbdit.ttf
Wasco Sans Italic	wscsnit.ttf
Wasco Sans	wscsnrg.ttf

To use these fonts with XNA Game Studio, you must install them in the Windows\Fonts folder on your computer. Follow these steps.

1. Extract the font files to a temporary folder on your computer. Leave this folder open.
2. Click the Start Menu, and then click Control Panel.
3. Under "Classic View", choose the Fonts option. A folder containing your installed fonts will appear.
4. Click and drag the fonts from the temporary folder into this Fonts folder. This will install the fonts.

You may now access these fonts using the SpriteFont class in XNA Game Studio. See the XNA Game Studio Help topic "How To: Draw Text" to learn how to use the SpriteFont class. When setting up your sprite definition XML file, identify the font you wish to use by name, by referring to the chart above.

The sample OpenType fonts are supplied under license from Ascender Corporation for use "as is." These fonts implement only a subset of the total features defined by the OpenType font format. They contain the ANSI character set along with OpenType typographic features.

To license versions of the OpenType fonts with extended character sets (that is, Latin 1 code page 1252) or customized versions, or to evaluate a wide range of fonts for game developers, please contact Ascender Corporation at http://www.ascendercorp.com/xna.html.